Author: A Social Animal

Auto Journalist Feels Dirty After Shilling For Volkswagon

The VW emissions cheating scandal is huge – it’s not huge large; it’s planet-massive! One Auto Journalist writes about how he feels ‘dirty’ having shilled for VW more than once: Ten months ago, the Volkswagen corporation flew two dozen car…

First impressions of WordPress 4.3

As I type this into the text editor in WordPress 4.3, I’m wondering how to make a list of item included in the release. Menus in the customize menu – “Create your menu, update it, and assign it, all while…

Movies: Ticket + Concession Prices…. a few thoughts…

Almost $5 for a $1 box of candy? If they would reduce that to $3 a box I might consider buying from the movie theater – at $2 a box it would be a no-brainer… at $5 though, I’m either…

This Government is full of liars…

I’ve wondered how the Obama administration is able to trot out the “we’ve deported more illegals than previous administrations” lie? It was bugging the heck out of me – their actions are clearly AGAINST deporting illegals, and instead providing amnesty…

Updating your Firefox Plugins

To keep your browser running smoothly, you should always run the most up-to-date versions of your browser and plugins (plus patches to your operating system, but that’s a different post entirely)… and that means you need to check if your…

Some quick and easy tips to speed up Firefox

Last updated on June 9th, 2015 at 05:27 pm Is Your Firefox installation running slowly? Ours was – and after checking that all our plugins + addons were up to date, we decided to start trimming some of the fat…

How to hide the message Comments are disabled in WordPress

If you build a site in WordPress and use pages, and then disable comments, you may see the message ‘Comments are disabled’ on every page or post with disabled comments. This is somewhat annoying and you might consider updating your…

How to Turn Off Comments for all pages in WordPress

If you’re building your website in WordPress, you might want to consider turning off the comments for all your pages – if you have a blog, it’s OK to allow comments on posts, but pages tend to be YOUR CONTENT, and most often comments are not welcomed on pages.

Happy St. George’s Day!

St. George’s Day is today – the 23rd of April and it’s a day when many an English man or woman will celebrate their English heritage. However, St George wasn’t anywhere close to being English. Revered as a slayer of…

new malware spreading via web based ads

Last updated on August 12th, 2018 at 04:15 pma new malware is spreading via ads found on popular sites such as HuffPo and more… new malware spreads via ads – #CyberSecurity Posted by Computer Security Solutions on Saturday, April 18,…