"Speak enough geek to get by…"
I was recently asked by someone what interesting things I had done with a Raspberry Pi. I remember a day when I could have rambled off a full list of experience, cautions … Continue Reading Catching the Raspberry Pi Fever
This is my private key. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My private key is my best friend. It is my life. I must secure it … Continue Reading The Encrypter’s Creed
As someone who enjoys driving in almost any weather condition, I am always reminded during the first good storm of the year (sometimes in some scary ways) that not everyone … Continue Reading Safe Driving in the Rain
I like questions that inspire thought. A Facebook friend just recently posted, “Anybody else know what they’re really doing? Asking for a friend…”. The answer that danced to the tip … Continue Reading The Next Few Moments…
Very occasionally a tool or software package stands-out to me on the pure virtue of being the right solution at the right time. If it happens to do exactly what … Continue Reading Unbound…A Truer Word Has Never Described Software
A while back I did extensive research (even for me) on desktop speakers, and found amazing quality at a price that was still affordable in the Studiophile AV40 kit from … Continue Reading Rockin’ Out Wirelessly with Bluetooth
Traveling often provides you with opportunities to read, but rarely does it offer good guidance on what to read. A marvelous exception jumped out with my January trip to Malta. … Continue Reading Good Read: The Great Siege: Malta 1565
I made a vague reference to Icecast and Internet radio broadcasting in my last post. I’m mostly just playing around with one of my oldest, and favorite hobbies…you know, in … Continue Reading Wittz End Radio Live(ish)
As we finally got our web hosting clients migrated to using cloud services for communication (read: Google Apps) and more flexible publishing environments for web hosting (read: WordPress), I was … Continue Reading Linode On-Demand Server to Replace My Dedicated Hosted Server
With all the press about the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability in the news, you probably don’t need another recount of why this is a big deal. If you’ve been following closely, … Continue Reading Two-Factor Authentication: “What?” and “How?”
For the uninitiated, AX is short-hand for autocross. “What is autocross?”, you may ask. Autocross is a timed motorsports competition in which drivers navigate one at a time through a course … Continue Reading AX Season is Upon Us
Most Android devices, Smart Phones and tablets alike, come with some built-in capabilities for automating different types of tasks. Useful lifestyle enhancers, like being able to set periods of time … Continue Reading Tasker for Android
As part of my work to update the website look-and-feel, close off some old server infrastructure, and reduce service provider costs, I moved wittzend.com to WordPress.com as its new platform. … Continue Reading The “Perfect” Look-and-Feel with a WordPress.com Hosted Premium Theme
Smart Phones have become so big in our lives. Like everyone else, I have become dependent on my little, red Droid RAZR for all manner of communication, but there are … Continue Reading Changing of the Guard: Xoom No More
As someone that was openly critical of Windows Vista during its short reign as the flagship Microsoft product, mostly due to my experiences bailing out friends and clients that had gone down … Continue Reading Configuring Windows 7 for Remote Access with Cygwin sshd
I am lucky enough to have several computers with which I work and play. Some of my machines are dual-boot with Windows, but all are running a Linux distribution of … Continue Reading “I think I might like Ubunt…well, Linux Mint”
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