A Techie with Heart
Here are some of my travel plans – currently rather vague… Cooper Creek The Cooper Creek Recreation Area is an rustic camping area in the North Georgia Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. While not the best scenic vistas, there are few places where I have felt more connected to nature. Waking up next to a babbling mountain
There is a movement, both in the U.S. and abroad, of people who live in their vans. This is known as Van Life #VanLife. Some are adventurers. Some are unable to afford rent or purchase of a home. Some are living their best life. Some considered themselves homeless until they found their van as their
Too often, people build their vans to be very heavy. This ends up hurting gas mileage and very likely has a detrimental effect on reliability. It’s totally up to the individual builder on how they want to build their van. I’m trying to avoid criticizing individual choices, although I will in the end. Builder’s Goals
An expired domain name, purchased through WordPress.com, continued to work normally *after* expiration. I have never seen this before. Domain have never continued to work during the 30-day grace period when you could still renew. The first indication we got (other than the requisite, albeit overlooked, notification emails) was when a cyber-squatter (connected to and/or
The woman to who I am blessed to be married, S. Nyambura Kihato, is now offering therapy services as Uzima Perspectives, LLC As of April of 2021, Nyambura practices Trauma Therapy at Karuna Counseling in Decatur, GA Make an appointment with Nyambura. I am also hanging our a shingle of my own! After years for
While my day job is satisfying and challenging, some projects give a special sense of satisfaction. It was particularly satisfying to launch a new website for The Atlanta Inquirer. It is important to have all voices in the news these days. The heritage of this newspaper goes back 60 years – as can be seen
For years, I have enjoyed having my Sprint cell phone integrated with Google Voice. While not perfect, it did allow me to do a lot of neat things, such as send and receive text messages from my desktop (Ubuntu) or laptop (ChromeOS) computers. I also got my voicemail transcribed (albeit imperfectly) and call history available
I have received three spam emails in recent days, with people offering to sell me the “.com” version of a “.net” domain name that I already own. This is not so unusual. Ever since domain names became a “thing”, people have been speculatively buying them to resell at a profit. This is known as “cybersquatting“.
Setting up a web site does take a lot of steps. Here’s a great guide from the folks at wpmudev. Too much? Contact me for any / all of these steps!
The most recent spread of ransomware shows a troubling trend. According to news sources, “Hospitals, major companies and government offices were among those that were badly affected.” Some opinions out there seem to consider such attacks as inevitable, or even due to bad policies, but this attack was preventable through standard maintenance practices. The people