Within minutes of posting yesterday about the homeless, crime, and vans parked on my street, a police officer knocked on my door. Yesterday, van #1 was driven away. Van #2 appeared the day before. On opening my door, the officer asked about the appearance of Van #3, which was suspicious because of Canadian plates and […]
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Normally, I would not mention any of this. I feel for the homeless in general. To take someone’s home, when that home is a van or car, is not an enjoyable act. I spent nearly two years living in an RV, and I have a fair degree of compassion. In the end, no one lost
Reflecting on How an Evolving City Impacts a Small Town Read More »
Rather than write journal entries this weekend I decided to go down the rabbit hole of fixing a laptop and doing my taxes. I filled in the remaining time with impromptu visits with friends and fresh baked sourdough bread. Laptop I decided to retire my daughter’s first college laptop, an HP Pavilion tablet. I replaced
The Unrelated Topics of Taxes, Laptops, Bread, and Friends Read More »
Habits take effort to form. Scott Adams (the Dilbert creator and author, https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays) suggests building systems over setting goals, advice with I both agree and recommend. For a variety of reasons my good habits have shifted to less-than-good. My systems no longer work for what I want to achieve. Developing a system for success is
Habits, Systems, Incentives, and Orange Chicken Read More »
I spent some time looking into loading a custom Android ROM on a recently replaced phone. After spending an hour looking into downloading ROMs, bootloaders, and SDKs, I gave up. I have gone down this path several times over the last few years and have abandoned my efforts each time. The reason is simple. Friction
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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
Observations on New Normalization Read More »
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.
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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.
We Need a Nuclear Winter Read More »
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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