A Social Animal, Author at A Social Animal

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

Jun 16, 2010

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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 search has always been on for ways to speed this sucker up… Various caching systems…

Any support technician has calls like this …

Jun 15, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Technology

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….

Jun 9, 2010

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A Social Animal

in the rest

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…

When is an update to be considered a downgrade?

Jun 9, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Technology

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

Imperial pint my eye

Jun 8, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local

Interesting that a special which includes an imperial pint (18.52 US fluid ounces) •and• the “any imperial pint” suddenly excludes Oud Bruin ?!? WTF?!?!?

Here’s a deal – only to special people, but please tell everyone… ?!?!

Jun 7, 2010

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in Buying Local

If you received a “special” – and it was a “super special” – to list members only – how would you feel about being told to forward it to your friends? How is it special to list members only!?!? Appreciated or used?

get in car, drive car, crash car, die…

Jun 7, 2010

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in The Future

listening to Sterling Moss talk to Richard Hammond about a near death experience – I can’t think of one – although with my checkered driving history of my eary teens and 20’s, I would have thought I would have….

you’re tweeting, you’re facebooking, you’re blogging and you’re screwing it up…

Jun 4, 2010

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in Social Media

A recent event I attended was a horrible culmination of probably the worst information shot-gunning I have seen in recent months – learn how to mess up communication in social media age, and pick up a few tips on how to EFFECTIVELY market your events using social media, and best of breed communication tools.