For decades I have dreamed of real, lasting, non-violent positive change, only to watch our country and the world at large appear to come apart at the seams these past years. All along, I have felt powerless to effect positive change, that there was no clear path to the correct goal. Until now… Please go […]
At 12:30pm today my Comcast cable internet connection decided to die. Or, more accurately, the Comcast servers decided my service was no longer valid because they lost the serial number to my modem. So, instead of running my business as usual, all TCP traffic is blocked! A long call to tech support failed to resolve […]
Just lost contact with all of my AWS instances for a few minutes. Definitely an Amazon-specific network issue, since my SSH sessions did not break, just froze for a little while, and I was able to reach non-AWS destinations. All is back now…YAY!
We just got our pair of iPhones today, right on schedule. Looks like AT&T and FedEx did a wonderful job getting the product to our doorstep. I was able to do the activations on the AT&T site with no problem. The phone is…well…extraordinary. Who cares if it is not called the iPhone 5? This thing […]
Today, I left Facebook. Cancelled my account and everything. The privacy issues were just too much for me. So tired of fighting to keep my personal information, well, PERSONAL… Did you know that it takes 14 days for them to actually cancel your account? That is correct – if you “like” something anywhere on the […]
In the past, I used clicktoflash.com to block Flash plugins. Safari was VERY stable. Then, Safari 5.1 REMOVED SUPPORT for webkit plugins and BROKE Click-To-Flash. Shame on you Apple. I did not know this, and have been experiencing Safari crashes every night. Then I installed Marc Hoyois’ ClickToPlugin Safari Extension found at http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ All you […]