This week is class week (I’m learning how to code in .NET) and iPad week (I haz one!) and my friend’s kid’s Facebook ‘wedding’ (don’t ask, just don’t). But today I feel like I’m learning new things that are really easily a part of my everyday life. It’s amazing how much my WordPress ‘free’ work […]
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WordPress 3.0 – Monk said it straight
When I was in college, I had the opportunity to hear Al Young read from his book, Something about the blues: an unlikely collection of poetry. All my life, I’d only heard Thelonious Monk (middle name Sphere) as instrumental. And Al just read his poetry with a nice beat and no ‘singing’ and suddenly I […]
Wii the People
Mrs. Ipstenu came up with that title. We still love the Wii and play it at least 4 times a week. We exercise with it mostly, since we only own two games (Wii Fit and the default Wii Sports). So someone asked me what kind of Wii Games etc would I like. Two more controllers […]
Are WordPress Books Worth It?
I love books. I’m almost thirty-three and I love reading a book every weekend. I carve out time on the train to read. I get resentful when I can’t read at least for 10 minutes a day. I re-read books constantly. Up until about five years ago, I felt the only way to learn was […]
Followup: I’ve been slashed!
Okay, truth be told I’m laughing at my own stupidity. Ipstenu.org’s been acting like a brat for a couple weeks, and I couldn’t figure out why. Turns out, I was hacked and infected with the Dark Mail virus. Dark Mail is basically a spammer script they put on your webpage that spams people. I found […]
Hack’n’Slash Security
I was intending on a totally different post, but, well, this came up instead. Recently, WordPress, my preferred blogging software, has been under attack by both hackers and critics. There were actually three attcks that all got lumped into one so I’ll try and break this down. If you’re of the ‘To long! Didn’t Read!’ […]
Sucking Clams, Kosher Style
I’m going to start out the new year blogging about servers, so if you don’t like my techy talks, this is one to avoid. ClamAV is an tool that you put on your server and it detects malicious software. In short, it’s a server virus scanner and most servers use it to scan email for […]
You Are What You See
A little while ago, I wrote about how a favicon defines a website. What about what defines you, the Internet person, however? We all have a thousand IDs spread all across the IntarWebz, demonstrating various aspects of our personality. Since 2006, I’ve been using the same image as my avatar pretty much everywhere: a stencil […]
Zen
In the process of cleaning up my code and whatnot, I wanted to return to having an actual gallery. And now I do. I’m also helping my friend set hers up, so mine’s a test. Enjoy the picture of my brother.