I just got an email from 1and1, my long-time webhost for the past 7 years. They had turned off my website completely (redirecting it to localhost; 127.0.0.1) because of massive hits on this website’s add-comment.php page, on the order of 60-70 thousand hits per day. WordPress doesn’t show me that many hits per day of […]

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I recently did a bit of house-call tech support for a friend of a colleague – helping with backing up files and the like. The user was having me check her antivirus programs on her laptop and desktop and happened to mention that she had “Pairsys Antivirus” on her computer as well. My curiosity was […]

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I can’t tell if they’re being ironic, but this “update your WordPress blog now” (for once, missing the soothing British tones of whats-his-name  who has been doing all the .x videos for as long as I can remember – please find him, give him a scone, and bring him back) is filled with hipsters doing […]

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Verily, we cannot deny that mobile is the future of computing. So, after hunting through a few different plugins recommended by this page that would automatically display a mobile version of HeiseHeise.com, I decided on this one – the WordPress Mobile Detector. WP-touch, my first pick, seemed 100% broken on my site, but this one […]

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Long story short: the blog was old and outdated, and now is new, shinier, and hopefully more secure. I can rest easy.

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I think I’ve set a new record so far for non-updating in the month of May. I feel like I’m either getting lazier with the blog or just getting busier in general and the two are definitely proving to be mutually exclusive. Having done the amateur blogging “thing” for the past 3 years now (mid […]

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