by Toby | Sep 21, 2012 | Laughs and Strange Things, Toby
This weeks Haiku fun at Mannix Marketing was on the subject “Fall”. I came up with three ditty’s this time. Haiku 1 Green to Golden Brown, Colors mixing become the palette of the world. Haiku 2 Dropping down from high, Falling in September mild;...
by Toby | Sep 17, 2012 | Email Issues, tech related
This evening I was getting a 400 Error Bad Request after logging into Gmail. I’m not sure what was up, but I cleared my browser cache and cookies and still nothing. I use Google Chrome as a browser, so I fired off an Incognito session and was able to log in...
by Toby | Sep 15, 2012 | tech related, WordPress
A pet peeve of mine — and yes I’m also guilty of it sometimes — is JavaScript on a web page. There are a number of reasons not to do this, the most important is the SEO benefit of performance boost of external JavaScript files. As separate files...
by Toby | Sep 14, 2012 | Public Service Announcment, tech related
Beware the Domain Giant, for the Domain Giant will step on you and you will be no more! Yes, that’s right folks. GoDaddy.com was hacked on Monday, September 10, 2012, and has now come out to say, “The service outage was due to a series of internal network...
by Toby | Sep 14, 2012 | Laughs and Strange Things
Every Friday lunchtime at the main Mannix Marketing office in Glens Falls, NY a bunch of the team members get together to partake in a little poetry fun with Fraiku Friday – Haiku on Friday! This week was my first real go. And it was fun… First a little...
by Toby | Sep 6, 2012 | development, hosting, php, programming, Public Service Announcment
I’m embarrassed to say that a site I host was recently hacked and any request coming from a search engine was being redirected to a less then desirable location. I thought that I’d share what happened and then tell you what I did. The Malicious Code The...
by Toby | Aug 26, 2012 | Charlotte, Day Trips, family, JoAnn, Lucinda, photos
We arrived at the Washington County Fairgrounds, just outside Greenwich, NY at the start of a glorious, sunny August afternoon. This was the first county fair that we’d been to as Four Peas in a Pod, and we were all very excited about what we would see and do....
by Toby | Aug 9, 2012 | development, hosting, php, programming
I ran into an issue in the last couple of days on NameCheap.com Shared Hosting while using the WordPress Plugin named backwpup. I noticed that the last few days backups have given the following warning: shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons After sending...
by Toby | Aug 3, 2012 | development, hosting, programming
I ran into an issue this week with a site I have hosted at NameCheap.com on their shared hosting plans. NameCheap.com has seen it fit to: “disabled sending any emails with the field ‘FROM’ containing [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes”...
by Toby | May 4, 2012 | php, programming
Placing an email address into a page is not a good idea in this day and age – actually for a number of years now – where harvest bots are trolling the Interwebs looking for nice juicy bits of data that can be passed onto those that like to send you SPAM...
