Author: A Social Animal

Grimm Brothers has it going on …

Last updated on November 26th, 2018 at 07:05 amYesterday we finally got round to visiting the Brewhouse and Tap Room at Grimm Brothers of Loveland. It was a nice surprise to find that of the 5 beers they had on…

Where were you when….

Where were you when Apple announced that The Beatles were coming to iTunes? I mean really – is it that big a deal? Does ANYONE care? I have to say – I am thoroughly underwhelmed by the Apple media machine…

11 Reasons Why You Need to Get a LIKE (Button)

Last updated on April 5th, 2017 at 07:25 amInteresting article.. 11 Reasons Why You Need to Get a LIKE (Button) The author has some input into like buttons – which are putting facebook code onto your own pages or blog…

mmMMmmmm… all natural candy from Hammonds Candies…

Hammond’s Candies sent me a lovely selection of their All Natural candies… a nice thank you for fixing a screw up they had with their website… mmMmmm…

Have you, or would you grab a quick bite here…?

I get emails from various grocery stores – I like to see what they’re going to put the prices way up for next… 😉 Anyway – the weekly King Soopers email just in – and they have a piece in…

When your web host doesn’t allow your wordpress to upload plugins and themes etc…

Last updated on May 20th, 2011 at 02:56 pmThere are some webserver setups (ours included) that do NOT allow the webserver to access files on your website – this stops wordpress from updating plugins, uploading themes etc – and it…

Question: When is a wordpress blog, not a wordpress blog?

Answer: when it’s a boat anchor! WordPress with a ton of plugins can often become a bit of a slouch – even on snappy webservers… and I’ve seen it become downright boat-anchor on slower or heavily laden servers… so the…

Any support technician has calls like this …

Remember the Google pacman game? This guy will – he’ll dine out on this story for years to come…

Part of me says cools, the other part says – what a FRICKEN WASTE….

When it comes to coke and mentos experiments, I got the fun – I always thought it was a waste of money – and never did one of my own (although a lot of people I know tried it ) – can you watch this and still say that fossil fuels are a waste of money in comparison?!?!

When is an update to be considered a downgrade?

Not every “update” you receive should be considered an “upgrade” – because it’s sometimes the case that a “downgrade” will occur… eek!