Yes, there are gravatars lurking here in Ramblin’ Dan. Just two so far and I have one of them. The gravatar is the little face or icon that appears with replies to posts in blogs. They are not saved here in Ramblin’ Dan but rather out in the gravatar web site. The gravatar is linked to your email address and will leave your “impression” at any gravatar friendly blog you post a reply. A gravatar is a universal type...
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Security
It had to happen sooner of later. Crackers (the undesirable version of a computer hacker) have been playing in my remote web servers. I thought it was secure but it seems the dedicated can “crack” almost every deterrent. I won’t go into details (for security reasons) but they left their mark and I and my web service know who they are. The problem may not have been noticed except the files they installed shut down some...
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It is staying hot here in Frisco Texas. For several weeks, temperatures remain in the 100’s and yesterday was 110 in some places. The Weather Underground gives the best picture of what the temperature really is in a community. They have all those home stations reporting. A few of those reportage’s are in error I am sure but you get a good overall sense of the local backyard temperature. Our official temperature is reported out in...
Continue reading...Ramblin’ Update
If you haven’t noticed, the right hand column on the blog has changed. I dropped the calander ’cause I wasn’t much interested in the dates shown there. It’s one of those features that I don’t have to use just because it is available. 🙂 I then added some photo display at the bottom just because it was available. (Did I say that?) Well, I guess I do like to do things just because I can....
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