It is Sunday, day 15, of September NaBloPoMo, so I’m going to post something, but even as I write these words I have no idea what this post will end-up being about. Today I have mainly thinking about my friend Daisy who happens to be a 10-year-old dog that isn’t doing so well. I posted […]
Happy Chocolate Friday!
That is right, in honor of today being International Chocolate Day, I have decided to totally forget that it is Friday the 13th. It is officially Chocolate Friday! Photo credit: aophotos from morguefile.com My favorite chocolate cake recipe was my Mom’s but I was sworn to secrecy on that one, so this link to […]
The Day After Terrorism Never Seems to End
I could not really write about 9/11 yesterday. I want my normal back. But that will never happen. The world is the world, and we are the ones living this moment and creating the future. Part of me is angry. My life was uprooted and totally changed by what happened on September 11th. I wrote […]
The Alternate Universe of September 11
Yes, we all remember 9/11. I do not want to diminish how we speak of it and remember that horrible day and the many unfortunate things that came out of it. But I remember everything, no matter what. I remember my the date of my parent’s wedding anniversary, old boyfriend’s birthdays, the dates my pets […]
Self-hosted Blog cPanel Security Tips
Yesterday I covered some basic security tips for WordPress blogs. Today I am covering some of the very basic things you can do to make your site or blog more secure cPanel, the panel through which you set up the basic self-hosting service particulars of your site. I am not a computer programmer or software […]
Is WordPress Security Oxymoronic?
Security again… sigh. I am trying to figure out how to ip deny certain ip addresses from visiting (read: hacking) my blog as a bit of preventive security. I spent a couple hours yesterday cutting and pasting ip addresses from my cpanel stat files into an excel spread sheet so I could easily cut and […]