There’s a place in feminism’s underbelly where some things aren’t often brought to light. Among the calls for equality and the staunch stance that what feminism really does is work to level the playing field for everyone, what many of us realize is there is a double standard when it comes to taking up the mantle of solidarity. Hence the birth of #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen. Continue reading
Responsive advertising sounds like a great idea and there are some helpful tutorials on how to set it up with AdSense. The only problem is that it doesn’t work. Not in the sense that you can’t get the ads to show up at the right size for the screen, but in that none of the advertisers have inventory for those ad sizes. Here’s how it breaks down. Continue reading
Escape the wild politics of human civilization with these live animal cameras direct from Africa.
I was an Adblock Plus user for as long as I can remember. But Adblock comes at a price, the sites that provide content can’t do it for free.
It’s true that Adblock made the web a much simpler place with far less clutter, no shouting flashing banners and annoying giant yellow bouncing things. For a long time I thought I was an ethical ad blocker because I disabled on sites that I frequented and liked, but otherwise I kept the default setting as block all ads for all other sites. But I was still visiting those other sites when I would Google something and land somewhere. Some of those sites provided me with valuable information, but I wasn’t doing my part to help them stay in existence. Continue reading
The RealDoll is a popular inanimate life companion that has proven to be wildly successful but also quite expensive. But can you buy them used? Here I’ll help you understand everything you need to know about aftermarket Real Dolls. Continue reading
For those of you living under a rock for the last 72 hours or so, you may be unaware that the Food Network has fired Paula Deen for admitting during a deposition to making racist and anti-Semetic jokes, using the N-word, and planning an Antebellum Southern Plantation-style wedding.
Paula Deen has many fans, and they have taken to Food Network’s Facebook page to protest Paula’s firing. Their comments are hilariously awful. These are their stories. Continue reading
Recently we had an odd thing happen, all inbound WordPress logins appeared to be coming from the same IP address. Because a large percentage of our WordPress login attempts are from botnet zombies this caused the site security system to mark legitimate login attempts as bad.
Having installed the CloudFlare WordPress plugin was supposed to feed in the true IP address of each visitor but that seems to only work for comments and not for everything else. Here is one line of code that will get the original IP address of visitors coming through CloudFlare. Continue reading
The Apache httpd.conf file can be overwhelming and complex, but if you make one simple change it can have a big impact. By default the “keepalive” feature is turned off. Turning that on will help people loading your web pages get them faster and cause less burden on your server. Here is how to change keepalive. Continue reading
There are lots of reasons why having web pages load faster is something to work toward but how to get the speed and what to focus on can be hard to figure out. Here are some easy tips to increase speed and cut down page load times. Continue reading
When enabling CloudFlare through our hosting provider’s (Media Temple) built in integration a strange thing happened. The integration looked great and appeared to be setup correctly but we were only seeing a small trickle of pageviews reported by CloudFlare, one or two per day when we regularly get many thousands. Here is how to properly enable CloudFlare to service a website through Media Temple that uses a subdomain or does not use WWW to prefix the URL. Continue reading