Wordfence, a security plugin for WordPress, released an interesting public service announcement. See PSA: Widespread Remote Working Scam Underway, which outlines a sophisticated way to steal personal and financial information, and your money, disguised as an offer for a remote-working job. Stealing your information need not be this elaborate. When you sell something online, and […]
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My wife and I have two cats, Nigel and Nikita. I am pretty sure Nigel is working on his pumpkin costume for Halloween, seeing how large he has grown in the last three months. We got Nikita as a kitten three months ago. Making sure she has enough food to grow means having enough to
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I took time this week to learn more WordPress basics, specifically security plugins. I have two other sites besides nerva.com to compare and maintain. This gives me an opportunity to contrast plugin features and use, then find which work best for my use cases. If you are looking for plugs plugging plugins, there are plenty
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I will admit I enjoy watching Foundation and Ted Lasso. Foundation is visually interesting, and there is almost a story I find I want to follow. Ted Lasso is written cleverly and uplifting. Ted skips the painfully bad set-ups most sit-coms use and lets the viewer fill in those gaps, which is more powerful. Your
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I spent my weekend working on the house, home-office, and some research on Circe for CirceFoundation.com. The child’s desk is returned and money refunded. I am now searching for another desk unit. My remaining office furniture is still sitting in transit, with a different story from the vendor whenever we call. We are told it
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The HVAC service was uneventful yesterday. Amusingly, the service arrived around 2:00 pm, and the email stating when he would arrive was sent at 9:45 pm. I am testing the system for the next few days to make sure all is running well. The AC works but the weather is cool. I am not particularly
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Thankfully, I work from home full time, and have for many years. One requirement when I bought my current home was it have air conditioning. Like most people, servicing my HVAC system has not been a priority. Naturally, today I pay the price for lack of formal maintenance, as I wait for a service technician
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If you don’t know the rules, you don’t know if you are winning or losing until you have lost.
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Working on the home office progressed to a stop, at least on furnishings. Shipping delays altered the schedule to completion. I will fill the time with other tasks. The bulk of the painting is done. I decided to repaint some of the baseboards to fill the time because they don’t look as crisp as they
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The physical domain of my home office painting is nearly complete as of last night. I have a few small touchups, which are only visible in the morning sunlight. Fortunately, there was morning sunlight to see by this morning. I have about fifteen minutes work to finish. This is good, as the first package of
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