A Social Animal, Author at A Social Animal

In what I think is a first, Google has replaced it’s logo with a variant of “Pacman” – which in and of itself, is not that unusual – right? Wrong! This isn’t a static image – it’s a working GAME! While Google changes it’s logo to celebrate days and events of historical importance, to my…

Research links pesticides with ADHD in kids

May 17, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Healthy Eating, The Present

what a surprise – research links messed up behaviors with ingesting messed up chemicals – who would-a-thunk it??? ABC Article on ADHD in children with pesticides.

75% off is a deal no matter what you’re buying…

May 17, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local, Deals and Bargains, The Present

OK, so perhaps you need to have a desire, or a need still, but 75% discount is a STEAL if you need or want the item on sale.. at least in my book. So what is it that you can get such a massive discount on? Prepare to be underwhelmed… pork and beans. Something we…

The economy is in the toilet – but really, what can I do?

May 16, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local

Well it turns out that this is the response I hear from most people if and when the topic of conversation turns to the economy.. and almost NONE of the people I’ve spoken to at local networking, chamber of commerce and other gatherings have a single clue how to help. Would you like to know…

Twitter hacked: Security – are they serious?

May 10, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Social Media, Technology, The Future, Twitter

twitter today confirmed a bug which allowed a user to “force” another user to follow them… you what?!? So in the world of social media, where a user’s behavior can be socially engineered, it turns out there is a way to turn them into following zombies? No-way! Get outta-here… sounds about as secure as an…

Rapid-Deployment Website Development

May 10, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Social Media, Technology, The Future, The Past, The Present

I’ve been building websites since the mid-90’s – back when deploying a website meant learning HTML – writing the page in a TEXT EDITOR (WYSIWYG editors for websites didn’t exist really) – and then linking the pages manually, then using an FTP program to upload the pages manually. My first website was actually traded for…

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