They’re Back!
What else can I say? Quaker Oatmeal Squares are back. Apparently for some time; we just didn’t know it. This fills a great void and restores my faith in American manufacturing might and democratic institutions.
A simple question about Health Insurance
If the United States’ system of paying for health care is so broken, so corrupt that someone who murders a health insurance CEO is treated as a folk hero, can anyone (other than an insurance executive or shareholder) explain to me why a government-run single-payer system would be worse?
Server sans Dedicated Firewall Appliance
Highest praise–I wish I had thought of this. I’d provide the original website where I saw it, but I don’t remember. It was so easy to replicate I didn’t record the URL. Port forwarding is dangerous from a security standpoint. However, it is necessary to penetrate the firewall to accept connection requests that originate outside … Read more
Motorola Moto Tag– Soft-Spoken Battery Killer
I’m over 70, and I’m a geek. Always have been (A geek. Over 70 only the last couple of years). I admit it. When I was younger, Motorola made some of the coolest electronics out there. Most of my pagers when I was in training were Motorolas. My phone used to be a Motorola (until … Read more
Dynamic DNS with noip.com
Like I said in the post about installing WordPress, you will probably need a dynamic DNS update client. What does this service do? Your ISP provider has only so many IP addresses. Not all customers are online at the same time. If you log off and don’t use your internet connection for a bit, and … Read more
Installing WordPress on a Raspberry Pi
I decided I’d like to blog. I have ideas and some are worth sharing; others not so much. I’ll try and keep the latter to myself. However, I thought the writing would be fun, as would the technical challenge of maintaining the server. When Eileen had her music studio, I hosted her website from a … Read more
Cat Feng-shui– Food Bowls
We recently broke a food bowl that Beau and Bella use for their wet food treats. Eileen, being a good cat mother, went out and bought a couple of new appetizer plates. Results were fascinating. Typically, the cats come for their wet food in the afternoon spontaneously. If they don’t, we clink the plates together … Read more