I spent the day filling out some of the extra stuff here and figuring out how I wanted to present things. I loved the technical bits, like playing with spacing, layouts, and page structures. I spent a lot of time building more complicated layouts only to talk myself out of…
Read more →For several months I've been taking part in the #JukeBoxFridayNight music sharing event on Mastodon. There's a theme that changes every week and the song or music video you post is supposed to match the theme in some way. This week's theme was #AWiderWorld and the idea was to share music from all over the world instead of the usual mass market stuff from a handful of countries. But in a bizarre twist that would rival the best of Hollywood, the theme of a wider world ended up reminding how small the world can be, too.
Read more →People suck.
Last night I had to shut my NAS completely down because some bored stranger on the other side of the planet decided they wanted into it for some reason. They started at 10 in the morning and never gave up. And yes, I understand it wasn't a person sitting there actively trying to get in. But someone deployed whatever automated system spent the entire day flooding my NAS - and by extension my home network - with login requests. Thousands of them, every couple of seconds.
Why?
Read more →My first website, and what would probably be considered my first blog, was a GeoCities site about scary movies that I updated religiously for years way back in the late 1900s. Then came Tumblr... then a dedicated WordPress site... and another... and another. Until just a couple of years ago, I'd always had a website/blog. I'd always had a voice of some kind online, even if I was the only one who could hear it.
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