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15 Grammar Mistakes That Can Trip You Up

Steve Shead — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:02:58 +0000

Courtesy of Copyblogger, this info graphic outlines the 15 most common grammatical errors for bloggers. If you like it feel free to reblog it – I did! Like this infographic? Get more copywriting tips from Copyblogger.

Genesis Child Themes I’ve Created

All Things Steve Shead — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:22:00 +0000

Genesis Child Themes I've Created: I spend a lot of time designing and developing Genesis Child Themes, and here’s where they live.

Malware-infected flash cards shipped out with HP switches

Steve Shead — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:19:29 +0000

From the article “Malware-infected flash cards shipped out with HP switches” By John Leyden • Get more from this author Posted in Enterprise Security, 11th April 2012 15:26 GMT Interesting (understatement) that a malware laden compact flash card can get shipped out with a product from a respected and revered company such that HP is. [...]

A new credit card breach revealed

Steve Shead — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:11:23 +0000

Gartner have published an article on another credit card breach, this time an NYC taxi and parking garage company. You can read it here on Gartner’s blog. The reason I’m raising interest is it is stated that a Central American gang successfully answered the knowledge based authentication questions correctly, then took over an under protected [...]

Ha! A eunuch squirrel! :)

All Things Steve Shead — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:44:41 +0000

Ha! A eunuch squirrel! :)

Genesis: Customize post_meta

Steve Shead — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:35:31 +0000

I wanted to edit the post_meta to not only add some flavor, but also change “tagged with” to “tags:”. It took a while to find the right extended short code, here it is. *For all the highlighted code below remove the space just after each square brace. WordPress interprets the code and I haven’t worked [...]

New York Times – Hacking attacks on the increase

Steve Shead — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:23:57 +0000

In an article in the New York Times online (here) there is mention of “new interest in hacking as a threat to US security”, siting that there were here were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure, factories and databases, compared with 11 over the same period a [...]

Genesis: Using Custom Navigation

Steve Shead — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:30:58 +0000

Here is a way to use your own menus by using wp_nav_menu. This can come in handy if you’ve used a third party CSS menu generator, and negates the need for a custom CSS plugin. If nothing else this lets you call out the custom CSS class and ID for your navigation. For this example [...]

You know – it takes all sorts! :)

All Things Steve Shead — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:39:42 +0000

You know - it takes all sorts! :)

Zappos Hacked

Steve Shead — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:19:37 +0000

From CNN Money – 24 million accounts accessed. CEO states no credit card data exposed. They state the hack gave access to part of their internal network and systems, yet the server that was hacked was based in Kentucky. I thought Zappos operated out of Nevada? The article detracts from the fact that they were [...]