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Switching to Irregular Updates

It’s been a week and a half since my last post, and here I am again with a post about the blog.  I haven’t really been prioritizing my writing as much as I have in the past, mostly because I have other things I’m spending that time on for now.  As I mentioned before, it’s not for lack of things to write about, but I’ve decided that it’s just not my top priority any longer.  So, rather than feel bad about not posting regularly, I’m changing my setup to irregular updates for the time being.

I’m not shutting down my blog, and I’m not going away, I’m just planning on writing less often, and am not going to promise a regular schedule.  Once I figure out my new patterns, I’ll probably get back to writing at least at some regularity, but, for now, expect only irregular updates when I really want to write.  I’ll likely update my resolutions on the right for those that are really observant, mostly because that’s less effort than a full post (and also it helps keep me on track), so if you’re curious, you can always stop in and check that.

Until next time – Have Fun!

Taking a Week Off

Hey all – I have no backlog, and I’ve been doing so much writing for work that I’m a little burned out at the moment.  I’m taking the week to build up a backlog and enjoy the writing I’m doing rather than jumping off the bus on Tuesdays and Thursdays to post something to my blog.  Until next week…

…Have Fun!

Hacking My Blog

Starting on Black Friday and going solid through Cyber Monday (after which it slowed only a little), my blog has been getting hit by a distributed brute-force password attack. All weekend, I would get pings that WordPress had blocked yet another IP address, and I couldn’t help but be of two minds. On the one hand, I had to laugh a little – over two hundred IP addresses had been blocked, and I don’t believe they would be able to brute force a 150 bit password with four guesses each. On the other hand, it’s not the IP addresses that are blocked that you have to worry about; it’s the ones that weren’t and succeeded, or, worse, exploited some other vulnerability. Was the brute force password attempts just a distraction?

This gives rise to the question, “are my security measures enough?” Since I was thinking about them anyway, I went ahead and took the time to upgrade a few things that were lacking, and took a hard look at some of the other things I could do. Continue reading Hacking My Blog