Tag: tutorials
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Blog 2014: Adding affiliate links to earn money
I just found out that WordPress.com, the advertising-averse blogging platform that hosts this site, allows bloggers to earn revenue by posting affiliate links. What?!? I wish I’d known this years ago! I’m this nice guy who, for years, has had links on this blog to Amazon for books I contributed to — just to make it easier for people…
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Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” – Better than Schoolhouse Rock!
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Blog 2014: Adding social media links
Where I learned how to add social media buttons, and where I found them Today, I added custom social media links to my secondary menu, which appears on the left sidebar in the Twenty-Fourteen WordPress theme I’m using now. I did this because Twenty-Fourteen doesn’t have social links in the theme, and I wanted them…
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There is no ass to Rick — and four other symbols you mispronounce
As an interpreter, I go to many places where people call typographical symbols by the wrong names. It irks me, but I can’t say anything about it while I’m interpreting, so please hear me now as I correct some common errors. @ This is an at sign, a.k.a. at symbol or simply at when spoken in an email…
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Slideshows of Interpreting Vague Language Workshop Series
These are the slideshows from the series of three Interpreting Vague Language (VL) workshops I taught in July. I’m sharing these for people who are interested in vague language and how I teach it. I recommend taking these three parts together as a Friday night, all day Saturday workshop. Please email me@danielgreene.com or call me…
Daniel Greene 