I love to meander, but I also like to get stuff done. I stay very busy, and sometimes I accomplish wonderful things, but I do so in a disorganized fashion. In a never-ending quest to have my life be tidy, sensuously-hued, and easy to navigate (like decorating magazine image of shiny, sparse homes) as well […]
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 […]
CAPTCHA, I Just CAN Quit You.
It is a wonderful, wacky Wednesday and instead of an iPhone and/or iPad app, I am singing the praises of a WordPress Plug-in, Akismet, this week. If you blog, you are targeted by spammers. Google owns Blogger / Blogspot.com and zaps spam for you. But if you need to own and control your own blog […]
Zombies! IP Deny Those Brain and Bandwidth Eaters.
Gotta love the attention getting factor that any exclamation of “Zombies!” carries. The CDC even understands this one. They used an outbreak of flesh eating zombies to reach a difficult to engage demographic group with information about emergency preparedness. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this until I Googled “Fox News Zombies.” And look […]