Winter War 2023
Category Archives: digital life
Domain name scams, revisited
By this time, in the fourth decade of the World Wide Web, the concept of Web scams is well understood. Most everyone with a computer or a smartphone or a tablet has come across a text message, web page, or Continue reading Domain name scams, revisited
A Celebration of the Life of Pearletta Anne Harris
April 7, 1931 — February 1, 2022 Saturday, April 9, 2022, 2:00 p.m. — Trinity United Methodist Church, Sequim, Washington Visual Memories Gathering Music: “Trauermarsch (Siegfried’s Funeral March),” by Richard Wagner [one of two musical selections requested by Pearletta] Welcome: Pastor Continue reading A Celebration of the Life of Pearletta Anne Harris
Domain name scams
This is not a problem most people will have, since most people don’t run websites. But if you do run a website… Computers talk to each other using great gobs of numbers. Most of the time, the numbers are numbers, Continue reading Domain name scams
Washington Apple Pi Journal
It will take some time to post the Washington Apple Pi Journal articles. There are a lot of them, and the articles and any illustrations are mostly not in digital form. Laziness dictates that I not retype everything 😇 and Continue reading Washington Apple Pi Journal
Christmas in Sequim: Sparkly
Sequim, Washington is a very small town on the Olympic Peninsula, which is a very large peninsula. Each year the town, and the Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe, do an extraordinary job of turning the town into a winter fantasy of lights Continue reading Christmas in Sequim: Sparkly
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Awards and Honors
Everyone wants to be recognized for something. This has resulted in an explosion of different ways to be recognized, ranging from spending money to get your own trophy (or get your name engraved on a brick, or monogrammed shirts, or…) Continue reading Awards and Honors
March of the Penguins
After resisting for years, I was finally told I had to move out of my office. The walls were going to be demolished, the electrical circuits jerked out, and all six of my high-speed Ethernet links cut. I was sad. Continue reading March of the Penguins