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Website (and host) migration time
The annual shutdown is the perfect time to do website maintenance, and this year is no different. A bigger maintenance window than usual, I needed to move all to a new host droplet
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Fucking hell – Redirects
A full day spent moving websites, and one final frustration that was driving me mad, how to redirect a url. It used to work, what was different?
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Time for new Tech
Some extra cash (earned with ample blood sweat and tears as trustee for my stepfather’s estate) launched a refresh of my technology.
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Review: The Apple iPhone Xs
As my iPhone 6s was nearing its third anniversary, I began to get the bug for a new phone. The battery is still fine on my 6s (reports at 87% capacity, not bad for 3 years old) and the latest version of iOS had improved its snappiness, but, it is still an older phone, and,…
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Apple Music – A Fresh Look
With the shifting allegiances in streaming music, I found myself re-enabling my Apple Music subscription. There are some benefits, and some less desirable aspects. This is relevant as I again ponder the mix of music that I have in my collection, as well as the convenience of streaming. In the following post, I lay out…
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Music, part 5,231
If you dig through the archives, you will read my travails around a permanent solution to my streaming/collection. The last “winner” was Amazon Music, hands down the best app experience, a decent library (not as big a selection as Apple, but enough) and the instant “AutoRIP” feature of what I bought from them were clinchers.…
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Fucking Referrer Spam
Sorry for the language. However, I run a handful of small, fairly low traffic sites. This one, my product management site, one for my dog(s) and their exploits, and my Wife’s professional site. All of these use WordPress, and I have Google analytics set up to track and monitor them.
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Xfinity gyrations
On Tuesday, out of the blue, I got an email from Comcast that they identified a “problem” with my CPE1 and that because they are so awesome, they were going to just send me a new modem/router. Whoop-de-doo.
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Serverpilot Changes
A service that I absolutely love is changing their business model. Serverpilot, an automation, and management front end for simple VPS1 deployments, that takes a minimalist droplet from Digital Ocean and abstracts the drudgery and risk of managing that installation from the user.