I spent a brief stint as a website content writer in the early 10's. It was for several of the thousands of click-through sites designed both to be helpful and to …
read moreA little background: I have IPv6 turned off in my main router because it creates more problems than it solves for me at this point in …
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Bored. So bored. So very bored.
It was the 1980's and the sky was the limit. The Internet was going to change the world . . . and it did. We were excited by all the possibilities, like a child on December 20th looking toward …
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Choice and Peers: Two concepts important to this post.
Dropbox, Ubuntu One, Google Drive, OneDrive, and don't forget Box and ownCloud.
What do all these have in common? I've tried them, and I don't like them …
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Image: This is an IPv6 address. Gaze upon its glory, mortal.
I was having problems with random wifi dropouts.
WeatherPi, DoorPi and LilWeatherPi all suffered from a tendancy to just randomly lose their wifi connection for no apparent reason. Video …
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Image: These people really do exist.
No matter to what lengths you go, you simply cannot be connected to the Internet without exposing yourself to bad actors out there who want as much data …
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Last night I finished converting all the content from my old WordPress Dr.Gerg site into markdown.
Another reason I'm happy is after literally decades of contemplation and half-hearted attempts, I finally made headway into IRC. That may not seem like much to most of you …
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