Lately I’ve become more and more frustrated with WordPress for various reasons. One major reason is plugin spam: plugins that basically are mostly useless and require a paid version to actually work, or to actually work well. There’s no easy way to filter out genuine free plugins vs. ones that are not, but the ratio…

I have backups which go back for many years and, over the course of time, it seems like I kind of lost track of things and ended up with multiple copies of the same files in different backup directories. Now I want to purchase a very large drive – probably a 4TB one – and…

If you’ve been following the story of “Homo floresiensis” since it began some years ago, it is the story of some 15,000 year old human(oid) remains found on an island in Indonesia. The only issue has been that the bones do (or did) not appear to coincide with an anatomically modern Homo sapiens. It was…

I’ve been annoyed for a long time by the fact that when choosing the option to place the Windows taskbar at the side of the screen instead of the default at the bottom, the width cannot be reduced to an appropriately small size and therefore it wastes space and looks terrible. I decided to research…

1 – 1/n That is the formula to compute the amount of available storage space for a RAID 5 disk array which is what I’m now thinking of getting for home. The lowest number of drives that can be used for a RAID 5 array is three, so that would mean 1 – 1/3 =…

At Fry’s the other day and needed a headset. There were a lot of options but ended up getting a Jabra Extreme2. Initially the earbud did not feel comfortable but after a while I got used to it and now like it because it enables the sound to be very clear. Audio quality is excellent…

If you live in a building and you are not a heavy user of hot water, but there is someone in your building who uses it all the time, how would you feel when your access to hot water is limited? Or how would you feel if your rent was increased to pay for the…

ownCloud has released a major update today to version 7.0.0. One new feature is the ability for someone who has their own ownCloud server running to share files with you via your ownCloud server. This server-to-server sharing is called federation. The ownCloud authors state in their release notice that file sharing via server federation is…

Many of the people searching through the haystacks were young, enlisted guys, 18 to 22 years old. They’ve suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility, where they now have access to all your private records. In the course of their daily work, they stumble across something that is completely unrelated in any sort…

This guitar sample app sounds amazing. This one too! This music is so soulful! It makes me want to grab my violin and find some resonant place to play. One more! So enchantingly beautiful!