I’m making a few belated New Year’s resolutions. I must write and edit offline – and start before 11:55 p.m. I must find a better header photo for this site. The current one is from my favorite view of the Platte; it’s just a poor shot. And finally, I should use this space to ruminate [...]
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Be it resolved.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2012 |
Take security seriously if you use database driven websites (CMS)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2012 |
Deb Fisher, candidate for the Senate seat Ben Nelson will soon vacate, has made national new — at least Tech. news — because her new campaign website was hacked. While her site still looked fine, a Google search results revealed a long list of hits for cheap Canadian prescription drugs. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2135625/How-State-Senator-Deb-Fischer-Should-Fix-Hacked-Website WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and [...]
A frosty Christmas and a cold Newt year.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2011 |
Gingrich has argued that children in poor neighborhoods should be employed as janitors in schools and he expanded on that theme Thursday, saying: “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, so they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have [...]
iPad update
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2011 |
I’ve updated lots of WordPress sites in the last few months, while neglecting my own, and now the wicked weather (tornado season) is beginning again (sigh). I did buy an iPad – two in fact, but both were gifts for others. The first was for non-profit staff, who needed a presentation tool to share the organization’s [...]
The worst weeks of storm season may be past for our area.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2010 |
Storms have pounded the Nebraska Panhandle with giant hail, and swept north and south of the Platte in wave after wave, but Kearney has only seen (knock on wood) frequent rains, a bit of lightning and thunder, but no sirens wailing or warnings. As the jet stream moves northward, we might expect fewer, and less [...]
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it — but what if it is broken?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2010 |
A nice summary from NYT staff specialist on healthcare issues, Reed Abelson: The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care. “It is a course that is literally bankrupting the federal government and businesses and individuals across the country.”
This seemed like a no-brainer to me but…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2010 |
Yes Virginia, (and Maryland) “Global warming” can mean MORE snow. Link: “Get This: Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow” Snow storms may be a somewhat unintuitive consequence of climate change, and it’s understandable that the unwelcome snow storms would be the butt of jokes, but did people in Washington really think that the crisis would [...]
Big online retailers part of deceptive credit card scheme
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2010 |
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/0737210/GameStop-Other-Retailers-Subpoenaed-Over-Credit-Card-Information-Sharing : MSNBC explains the scenario thus: “You’re on the site of a well-known retailer and you make a purchase. As soon as you complete the transaction a pop-up window appears. It offers a discount on your next purchase. Click on the ad and you are automatically redirected to another company’s site where you are [...]
iPad and Windows 7
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2010 |
I wasn’t really following the Mac tablet rumors with baited breath, but when I heard an NPR brief about the unveiling, I visited Apple to look-see. Yeah. Okay. So the pay-per-opinion crowd will pan it (actually, they started weeks ago), but they are so wrong. This is another game changer, and the price is not [...]
Saving Haiti?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2010 |
Viewing those wretched Haitian earthquake images provokes a outpouring of desire to help. The organization, Doctors Without Borders, is “on the ground” and has operated facilities in Haiti for years. That makes them an excellent choice for donations that will alleviate some of the current suffering. Before the earthquake, Haiti was not so much a [...]
