It’s happened, the first time in over 40 years I am unemployed. Oh? Yeah, some folks call it retired. It was official yesterday; Last working day of February, 2015. I know it’s a record run of continuous but varied employment most people don’t experience. I always had the next employment in hand when I made the changes. This time I am at the far end of the tunnel with as of yet, no solid plan....
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Blogging is like shaving
…If you don’t do it every day you are a bum. The family business had an old sign in the office that said the same thing about selling. Dad put it up when I was a kid. It had a line drawing sketch of the sad clown Emmett Kelly, right in the middle like a wanted poster. Sometimes my memory of that sign drives my need to post on my blogs. This is a grey scale sketch...
Continue reading...Lord of the Castle
So what kind of castles have I built? I have to ask myself that question. I currently have about a dozen personal websites and at least six more sub-domain sites and customers sites and maintain them all. Several of my personal sites receive very high access. They have also attracted DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, like in the picture. One attack recently forced my ISP to shut one castle down without my knowledge. It...
Continue reading...Breaking Point
Life can be heck when you are popular, especially if you are popular with the wrong folks. The ISP (Internet Service Provider) that hosts my many websites and blogs sent me a notice yesterday that they had shut down one of my most popular websites because it was using too much CPU resources in the shared host computer in which it is located. My ISP provides unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth, but not unlimited use...
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