I am reaching that time in life when lifelong friends are leaving the living but will continue on in my memories. It is a very sobering responsibility on living my own life when I know I am traveling the same road. How will I be remembered?
Continue reading...I Love Quill Ten
My wife is a devoted quilter. She navigates the state of Texas and the entire country by where the quilt shops are located. She also knows what fabric is in stock in every one of them. Half the upstairs is her quilting cave I call Grandma’s Attic. Sewing machines and long arm quilters, she has it all. Well, she didn’t have a T-Shirt that proclaimed her overpowering passion to stitch tiny bits of cloth into...
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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