Going a little retro
Yes, I am still here. This thing is still on. I'm in the process of clearing up a few small things and bringing it up to date where I am now. The last time I made a serious effort to keep this "current" would have been
Since our last episode....
2024: An Update Oddysey - Changes and happenings in the months since I last posted and plans to add some extras
"It belongs in a museum!"
Old man moves younger man's website on to modern infrastructure - be shocked to find both men are one, just 25 years apart!
So I've saved the blog...
So I saved the blog but what a clusterfuck. Some Nodejs jockeys should stick to being amateur hackers.
PSA: Do you own this netblock?
Will the idiots at Viettel Corp in Vietnam wake up and smash their misbehaving ssh-scanning customers/compromised systems.. and/or just fuck off.
Retiring my old status pages...
Even good solutions need to be quietly retired, occasionally at short notice.
Oh Amazon Lightsail...
Not-Area-Man fires up a Lightsail instance because client is cheap, is surprised with the results, but not in a good way.
ThatFlemingGent's Shut In Show
Isolation Insanity kicks in, shut-in installs Streamlabs and remembers he has a Twitch account
A word on that virus everyone's talking about
Yeah I'm talking about COVID-19, along with most everyone else. It's serious and you should treat it as such. While people might see the mortality rate (around 3%) as low that's still a metric shitload of people (ask the Chinese and Italians) and it
Old Dog Learns New Trick
Middle aged server hacker and software packager reads manual pages, gets enlightened.
Customer UnService: Netflix Account Edition.
Australian man finds data integrity problem with his streaming service account. Netflix sends Terrence St John Fuckwitt to investigate. Idiocy ensues.
Goodbye Wordpress
So about 13 years since I moved from a tiny little proto-blog app (the long departed "Project Steve Guttenberg", also my first contribution to PHP development, long before Github and pull requests) to an early version of Wordpress, I'm moving again Because it's nearly