Feet are a controversial subject. People’s reaction to them could be disgust, indifference, adoration or lust. Some people put a lot of effort into foot care and maintenance while others treat them like appendages meant to do work. Here you’ll give us a glimpse at your feet. Mind you, shoes are fine, but not really the subject at hand. Continue reading
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This song is about Saturday. Continue reading
Uncle Sam is something of a big data freak and likes to keep all the data to himself just in case he needs to check in on some suspicious activity that may or may not have happened anytime in the last eight years. Or so I hear. Today let’s all give up a bit of our own privacy. Continue reading
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That’s right, it could have been worse. Continue reading
Recently we had an odd thing happen, all inbound WordPress logins appeared to be coming from the same IP address. Because a large percentage of our WordPress login attempts are from botnet zombies this caused the site security system to mark legitimate login attempts as bad.
Having installed the CloudFlare WordPress plugin was supposed to feed in the true IP address of each visitor but that seems to only work for comments and not for everything else. Here is one line of code that will get the original IP address of visitors coming through CloudFlare. Continue reading
I’ve accidentally seen Chelsea Peretti do stand up twice. Once she opened for Sarah Silverman and once for Aziz Ansari. Both times she was great, a good performer and a great laughs. But it wasn’t until I started to follow her on Twitter that I realized just how awesome she is. Allow me to enlighten you as to why you should get to know Chelsea Peretti a little bit better. Continue reading
Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce took a look at unemployment rates and college degrees and came up with a list of degrees that have a good chance of getting you a job and list that have a bad chance. Continue reading
The Apache httpd.conf file can be overwhelming and complex, but if you make one simple change it can have a big impact. By default the “keepalive” feature is turned off. Turning that on will help people loading your web pages get them faster and cause less burden on your server. Here is how to change keepalive. Continue reading
This week Tesla is announcing a huge increase in the number of their supercharger stations. These are dedicated charging stations for Tesla owners at key locations along major interstates, like I-5 through the California Central Valley for those driving between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Tesla wants people to lose their range anxiety and be able to take long trips in their electric cars. Oh, and the charge ups are included in the purchase price of the car. Continue reading