If you’ve ever plunged into the world of home labs and server setups, you know that the journey is as much filled with failures as it is successes. I’m no exception. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had to rebuild over the years and learned in the process. My latest project was to…
Honey Pot
Many of you may have heard the term Honey Pot. In the case I’m using it here is from the cyber security side. This post is quite literally being used as a Honey Pot for spam comments. I’ve turned on a spam blocker that will catch most of these comments as they come in. Once…
Spam Spam & More Spam
It’s amazing to me to see how many bots there are out there making spam comments on sites like mine. I understand that by mass commenting they are increasing the chance that some one will fall for their scams, but man it’s annoying. I used to get excited anytime someone would comment, but now it’s…
Having a website is hard
I remember being young when the internet first became popular. The only thing I really wanted at that time was to have my own website. I did, using godaddy or something similar way back in the day. It was awful. You had to understand HTML, there was no site building tools there to help. Now…
So…I ran a 5k… It didn’t go well..
A little over 6 weeks ago my wife asked if I wanted to be signed up to a 5k that happened to be sponsored by my previous employer. I wasn’t to keen on it for that reason, however she let me know they were giving the money raised to the Wounded Warrior Project. For those…