My use and administration of WordPress is relatively recent. In part, I took it on to build my skills and broaden my experience. Coming from an ‘old school’ developer background where I have focused on databases, server management tools and processes, and more recently cyber security, an easily employed and feature rich product is tremendously …
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Maybe call it renormalization? I am not sure. After nearly two years of pandemic restrictions, my observation is most people publicly pretend to care. This is not a criticism on what restrictions, mandates, lockdowns, or requirements do or do not work. I don’t know, and you likely don’t either, in that any argument, study, or …
The support staff at Web.com (@webdotcom) and NetworkSolutions.com are polite and helpful. They unfortunately have a Byzantine system to work with. I have been a customer for years. I can no longer recommend hosting there anymore. I suspect it is a terrible fallout from company mergers and acquisitions, not to the benefit of any customer. …
We need our winters powered by nuclear power. The same can be said for all the year’s seasons. Because nuclear power is a consistent base-load supply on the critical path for stable industrial and residential use year-round, and simultaneously the best option to address environmental issues. There are a lot of arguments against nuclear power. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …