I’ll make no secret of the fact that this blog is 10 years old; something I’m very proud of. However, I’m less proud of the fact that my theme, based on Talian 1.0, is also 10 years old. The maker of the the theme, Steve Arun, seems to have entirely pivoted away from themes to […]

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Today marks ten years since I downloaded and installed WordPress 2.1.3 on my little corner of the internet, mostly to give my parents a means of checking up on me when I took my summer trip to the United Kingdom later in the month of May. My first blog post was the equivalent of “Hello […]

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I had some free time this evening so was finally able to get around to getting some nice pictures from my Panasonic LX-5 uploaded to the blog. Every single article has had the weird mobile-app caused formatting fixed, I’ve corrected a lot of typos that not having a spell checker running caused, and most importantly, […]

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Google apparently punishes website folks if they don’t have a mobile-ready version of their site ready to go. As I was poking around, trying to get old Facebook video embed links to work on some old posts, I tried checking out those pages on my phone to see how they looked there. Imagine my irritation […]

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I might not update much anymore, but I still want the blog to remain as a record of my travels. This afternoon I got an email from 1and1, my webhost, telling me that the following file was “under attack” –
~/blog/wp-content/plugins/health-check/code.php
I was surprised, and immediately went into my SFTP client to download and check the file. […]

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My friend, colleague and fellow traveler Caitlin is moving through her blogposts faster than I am! She writes over at Tastiest of Noms and has already even gotten through her Istanbul entries for our arrival in Jordan. Some of the pictures you see on the site are hers, some of them are mine. She doesn’t […]

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