It looks like our HVAC contracting nightmare starring Apollo Johnsen and his Day and Night Furnace Company is finally coming to a close. What a relief!
Since all my bills are automatically paid by an electronic clearinghouse every month, I was surprised to get a disconnection notice from AT&T — to which, of course, I took a significant amount of umbrage.
It seems that I am always searching for good regular expressions, but really accurate and concise ones are seemingly impossible to find. Most do very poor jobs at covering corner cases, or they are completely wrong and useless. For example, I recently discovered a regex designed to match an MD5 hash, which is a 32-digit [...]
Ever thought about creating your own WordPress theme from scratch, but were just too confused where to begin? If you’re hosting your own WordPress installation, it’s actually much easier than you think.
The most important thing to realize is that the basic structure of a WordPress theme mirrors the same structure of just about every template-based [...]
Today’s spammers, viruses, emailbots, and spoofers can forge enough information within an email to obfuscate its origin from the average casual recipient.
However, the rest of the header information in emails can be used successfully to track their source if you know where to look. While Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the main protocol used when [...]
Ironically, considering the dispute I have with Citibank about a fraudulent transaction, I received an offer from them for a second mortgage with a program much better than I could get myself as a loan officer. It was almost impossible to pass up, so I filed an application electronically. As seems usual in these cases, [...]
I tend to be paranoid about security. My Linksys wireless router is set to use 128-bit encryption, rather than the less secure 64-bit standard. All computers at home are behind dual firewalls, except for those few that exist within the DMZ. I usually give out our post office box address instead of our physical home [...]
I received this email from support@domainsnext.com yesterday:
On one of your published website pages, which anyone can find on your website and most search engines, anyone who reads this page can realize that you are a bigot and bigotry as you know is a crime. You said on your placeholder page “Hey, Abdul, Mohammed, Ahmed, or [...]
As of this Sunday, RR… will have been up and around for two and a half years, a quarter of my goal achieved to keep some form of journal for ten years. This just happens to be an on-line version that everyone with a browser has access to. A lot has transpired since its inception, [...]
According to the California Voter Foundation, the chief purposes of voter registration are to both prevent voter fraud and to facilitate election administration. An equally important but less well-known purpose is to provide political campaigns with contact and personal information about voters and their history of election participation.
One way campaigns ensure that their message reaches [...]
