-
Mary Karr’s Poetry

I’m really enjoying the poetry of Mary Karr a contributor to the New Yorker. From her short bio: Mary Karr teaches at Syracuse University and lives in Manhattan. Her New York Times best-seller, “The Art of Memoir”, will appear in paperback this fall. I first read The Crotchgrabber her article “On a shockingly casual case…
-
Encrypt iPhone backup
I’ve updated my Apple iPhone to a 6S and adjusted the custom iPhone backup location on my external HDD. This time I’ve enabled the Encrypt iPhone backup feature in iTunes. Apple does not backup important data to transfer to a new phone if you don’t encrypt your backups. Things like: Account passwords WiFi passwords Health…
-
Server woes

Last updated on February 24th, 2016 at 06:30 pm Sorry to those of you whose emails I’m not receiving. Unless I’m receiving them and you’re in the smaller group of people who can’t receive my emails. Unless you’re in a non-intersecting group of people who are connecting to an older server (in which case you…
-
Fix Google Analytics Spam
Last updated on February 17th, 2016 at 04:04 am Bottom line up front: Prevent spam in your Google Analytics with only 2 filters Google Analytics is the most widely used web analytics service today so it is a target-rich environment for spammers to get eyeballs. They hope that web masters will see their url and…
-
ZagZ redesigned

Last updated on February 17th, 2016 at 04:06 am During a hasty server relocation I discovered that the database that stores ZagZ.com was slightly corrupted. Not badly enough to affect the performance of the site. But enough that the backups didn’t notice it and reported themselves happily complete. The actuality was that the posts and…




