Speech to text is a wonderful feature of today’s cellphones, especially when driving. But, sometimes they just don’t have the vocabulary. Here is a simple message gone bad. It consists of “What I said” and “What the smart-phone heard”.
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Setting a WordPress site to maintenance mode
February 21st, 2013 
etdot There may be times when you are updating an existing WordPress site or theme, or setting up a new one when you don’t want visitors to see errors or ugly content in flux. Maintenance Mode is a simple plugin to take care of this. It adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors […]
Tags: Monetize your WordPress site with Amazon affiliate links
July 8th, 2012 etdot If you are looking to monetize your WordPress website using Amazon Affiliate Program you are in luck. There are tons of WordPress plugins available to to this task. They vary depending on the type of site you have and how you intend to make use of the affiliate program. However, the average blogger or regular […]
Convert a WordPress post to a page (or a page to a post)
July 6th, 2012 etdot Convert a WordPress post to a page (or a page to a post) easily without having to touch the database.
Hyper-V Dropping Outgoing Packets
June 25th, 2012 etdot For weeks I have been fighting with a Windows Server 2008 R2 server running Hyper-V. I noticed that on a couple of virtual machines they would suffer from significant packet loss. I first noticed it with the Windows 8 Release Preview VM and immediately blamed it on Windows 8 not being supported yet, not being […]