Gotta love the attention getting factor that any exclamation of “Zombies!” carries. The CDC even understands this one. They used an outbreak of flesh eating zombies to reach a difficult to engage demographic group with information about emergency preparedness. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this until I Googled “Fox News Zombies.” And look […]
Never Had a Yacht, Never Will Have a Yacht: Musings on the Letter Y
“Yacht” is a status word, vessel, and club. Yachts serve as the secret X-ray decoder rings for the upper class in our society. I wonder if it is related to the word “yah?” yah 1 |yä| nounBrit. informal an upper-class person: the cafe is full of yahs whose daddies own chateaux in France. ORIGIN representation […]
W is for WordPress (continued) Widgets and for Weekday Blogging in May
I had intended this “W” post to be about weekday blogging as a variant of the daily blogging challenges that are popular with the more vociferous of bloggers. I started a series of articles on WordPress security and easy fixes with updates to various parts of blogs that use this publishing platform that is overlapping […]
Vigilance Is Your Best Security Option When Using WordPress
V is for Vigilant vigilant |ˈvijələnt| adjective keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties Yesterday I began talking about security through the routine installation of upgrades. This is probably the biggest single thing you can do to secure your self-hosted WordPress site. You need to be vigilant about upgrades to any software you use […]
Updates: Basics of How and Why to Do Blog Software Updates
So you think updating your blog means adding a new post? Well, you are only sort of accurate when you say this. Updating a blog through the regular addition of new posts is essential Today I updated the theme I use on Reason Creek. Why? Because a new version became available. How? More on that […]
The Feminization of the InterWebs
I is for Interwebs Key Words are DEAD. That is what I said, “dead.” Maybe if we had adopted the good old LC Subject Headings (see example) as necessary tags for web content this whole mess could have been avoided, but online keyword searching has come to replace more nuanced search that was once done […]