General Blather

I think I’ll go get me one of the new iPad Air 13” models when they arrive next week. more »

Maybe it was the unplugged Ethernet cable. more »

I just shared my plan to retire on LinkedIn. It's getting real, I guess. more »

Each of the contemporary servers in the farm have had some recent upgrades, usually due to age-related failures. In my mind, some of them need a little more. more »

Some, like my wife, may wonder why I have two Internet connections. It's really because I have a set-up for some servers, like the one serving this blog, and have tried to update it to faster service, but the faster service doesn't offer the bits needed… more »

Not a big income driver for me, but a bit of knowledge and trickle of pennies, I've got some Google Ads on my various pages. They've been warning for a while that changes are afoot and that those of us who do this need to make changes. I didn't change,… more »

For both protecting my systems and playing with what's out there, I incorporate Crowdsec into my system's intrusion detection and prevention. For other reasons, I updated one of my servers to the latest Ubuntu (not LTS), and an update to Crowdsec balked. more »