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Don’t be a dumb donkey, always use strong passwords and 2fa.
I suggest using the Authy app as it’s cross platform, free and easy to use.
One problem with having cats is that you can’t leave the bed until they are FULLY done sleeping.
Bed ruffling or making unsavory noises is a massive no no.
Amalia’s breakfast looked far better than mine.
She was able to salvage the ingredients with some trickery of spice and technique.
If you are curious what 13 years of blogging looks like?
Here it is, the whole FTP dump of 13 years of madness and joy.
It has been almost 23 years since the release of Windows 98.
It is hard to imagine that Windows 95 is 25 years old. Like yesterday I remember standing in line at Office Depot on Finlayson in Victoria for the after-midnight launch. It was incredibly exciting to wait in the parking lot with nerd-alikes, chit chatting then swiftly running home to install the OS on my laptop (I was living on Gorge road at the time).
Stayed up all night playing with everything. It really was revolutionary, dialup to BC1 (one of the 1st providers on the Island).
Just think, everyone was using Windows 3.1 before that day.
Also, Amalia’s brand new Casio for some flair.
Filling out an online Bulgarian form and the email example is ivan_invanov. I think that’s funny for no reason at all.
Where is invana_invanova?
Another Super Tenere I found for sale in Sofia. This one looks brand new (17 year old bike).
Fat Tuesday yesterday. My sister is celebrating in Winnipeg with traditional Polish pączki.
My take on the English Breakfast items from the new restaurant supply store 3 blocks away from our place.
MEHHH….I will keep it short and sweet. There is nothing culinarily delightful about English Breakfast anyway but the stuff we bought yesterday just tasted “bargain”. It all looks like an Eastern European copycat of the juicy sausages you would have at a London pub, crumbly and bloody tasting ‘bloodpudding’ you would find at the Cotswolds. Even the bacon, as pretty as it was, wasn’t sweet of super meaty and “bacony” as bacon should be. Everything was bland and I hated it all. Fuck off, cheap counterfeit meat.
Sadly we bought a lot of this stuff but none will go to waste, of course.
1994 Yamaha Tenere. I “rally” like it.
Amalia’s weird anchovy and onion pizza-thing for lunch?
SIM slot?
Today I realized my beloved 10 year old Thinkpad X201 has a SIM slot and a GPS. I guess I have a full day ahead of visiting my cell store for a cheap SIM (the old style one, hope they have) and tinkering. This machine runs a few operating systems in VMs (Ubuntu is host) so testing some GPS and communication software will be fun.
Tetherless data and GPS 10 years ago would have been a cool-as-fuck tech to have.
Did I tell you my 201 is practically brand new with just a few cycles on the original battery? Still has the clear stickers all over. How is that possible, Matthew has no clue.
It’s crazy fast, too.
DNS
All of the necessary DNS changes have been made. The VPS is up and updated and all the security software is installed and, mostly, configured.
I am using with ModSecurity with OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (plus a few other little hacks with the .htaccess file). SMTP transport is ready to roll, too. Sticking with “sendinblue”. They work well, even with their free tier.
Now onto captcha and caching.
Then the daunting task of shuttling almost 100GB of data from the other server.
~matt
MOVING
chewyland.com is moving onto its own self managed cloud server (VPS) over the coming days so please don’t mind the interruptions. I have been planning this for years (this blog is more than 13 years old) and it’s finally time. If you are interested, I will be posting some technical details soon. I am also planning on enabling comments and perhaps a forum.
I will be able to host higher quality images and video and decrease load times. I am also testing the site on cutting edge release of Ubuntu and PHP 8.
Please note the legacy content will be still be available under a new archives subdomain.
Thank you for your patience.
~matt