Zebras
I am starting to put some of my favourite photos on this blog. You can see most of my digital photos at The Grumpy Old Techies Photos. These are Zebras photographed in the Kruger Park.
Is Tesla’s Powerwall really that great?
For about a month ads appeared in my Facebook timeline trying to sell alternative energy solutions. They pushed the Tesla Powerwall as a good solution because it is “pretty”. For a technical person “pretty” is very low on the list of reasons why you will buy something that will be bolted onto your garage wall….
Weekends are supposed to be fun, Aren’t they?
And the latest version of WordPress is supposed to be secure, isn’t it? Well this weekend the conventional wisdom was proven wrong. I am a reseller for a very large domain registration and hosting company for a few years now. I primarily used it to get discounts for myself and my customers on web hosting…
You Cannot Fool Nature
Today 28 January 2016 is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. This event shocked the world and shook NASA out of its complacency. A commission was formed to investigate. Surprisingly there was only one scientist on the commission, Richard Feynman. He filed a minority report which was nearly suppressed and also performed his famous…
Be very careful what you click
No, this not about clicking on silly click bait articles. Against everything I know, I decided to quickly make a few changes and clean up the file stores on a vmware cluster. I was thinking maybe an hour or so tops and I can enjoy the rest of my Saturday.