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I want a local alternative to these…

Dec 8, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local

Does anyone know a local maker of all-nature honey candies? All Natural Clover Honey Tea Spoons Bulk Pack: 50 Count

When buying local just isn’t possible or practical…

Dec 7, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local, Deals and Bargains

There are the odd time when buying local just isn’t possible – and getting the very best seafood is one of those time (due to seasonal issues, or price after freight can make seafood cost prohibitive) – at those times, there are specialty online stores who can take up the slack or fill the gap…

WordPress 3.0.2 fixes some security issues among other things – apply it today…

Dec 4, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Other, Social Media, Technology

WordPress released the latest version of their content management system – 3.0.2 – and as usual, we recommend that you take the time to upgrade. Here is a link to the WordPress 3.0.2 release notes. This was a fairly minor maintenance release and each site we upgraded had ZERO issues – but as usual, we…

Is McDonald’s really this desperate?

Dec 2, 2010

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A Social Animal

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In the mailbox today was a flyer/coupon book from McDonalds. They proudly announce an upcoming new menu item … and it is …. Oatmeal!?!? Wth??!?

Grimm Brothers has it going on …

Nov 28, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local, Great Local Businesses

Yesterday 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 tap… Snow Drop – Honey Wheat Ale Little Red Cap – Alt Style Ale The Fearless Youth – Dunkel Lager Master Thief –…

Where were you when….

Nov 16, 2010

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A Social Animal

in The Past, The Present

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 and this over-hyped release… How many people who actually use iTunes are likely to buy…

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

Nov 10, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Social Media

Interesting 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 template – it’s just one way of sharing pages – another is the type of social networking buttons you see on this blog……

mmMMmmmm… all natural candy from Hammonds Candies…

Oct 28, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Buying Local, Great Local Businesses

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…?

Jun 16, 2010

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A Social Animal

in the rest

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 the email on a “chicken sandwich” – it’s $1.99 – ok… sounds fair – but…

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

Jun 16, 2010

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A Social Animal

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There 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 can be a real pain. WordPress will ask your for your FTP information – and you enter it – and this allows the…

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