And yet here I am. Just for the record, let me make it clear that in my 20+ years of having a PayPal business account, I have never had a problem with PayPal. Their job is to collect payments and…
How Big a Whole-House Backup Generator do You Need?
A couple of years ago, I published a post about how I hooked up a portable generator to power my house during power failures. What I didn’t really go into detail about, but should have, was how I determined how…
Running AOSiP on my OnePlus 7t Smartphone
I recently wiped the factory OS off my OnePlus 7t smartphone and replaced it with AOSiP, an AOSP (Android Open-Source Project) fork. I used the installation guide found here. After a few weeks of tinkering with it in my spare…
First Real-World Test of my A-iPower SUA12000E Generator
As my readers (both of them) know, a couple of years ago I purchased an A-iPower SUA12000E portable generator and wired it into my home’s electrical system to power the whole house during power outages. I chose a portable generator…
Dawn Patrol Black Car-Polishing Mission
I’ve been touching up and detailing one of my cars lately, trying to work around the weather. Today’s forecast doesn’t call for rain until 9:00 p.m., so I did a Dawn Patrol mission to give the polish a time to…
The Joy of Ethanol-Free Gas
I filled up with ethanol-free 91-octane gas on the way home from the dentist. The tank was nearly empty, so there was almost no ethanol in the mix. After a few miles, I noticed that my mpg were over 50,…
The Questions We’re Not Allowed to Ask about Mass Shootings
Like most Americans (I hope), I was distressed to learn this morning that we had yet another mass shooting last night, in Dayton, Ohio; in addition to the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas earlier yesterday. And like most Americans…
DIY Magnetic Action Camera Mount for Car Roof
This is pretty self-explanatory. It’s a camera mount made of PVC pipe and four 95-pound magnets. Still to be done is attaching a mount point for the safety strap. Richard
Another Reason to Hate the Web: CAPTCHA Tests
I’m getting sick of CAPTCHA tests. In fact, I’m getting so sick of them that I’ve closed my accounts at two online merchants in the past seven days for no reason other than their aggressive use of CAPTCHA tests. By…
PHP Script to Capture CSF BLOCK_REPORT Output and Report it to AbuseIPDB
This is an experimental script I’m working on to capture the output from CSF Firewall’s BLOCK_REPORT feature, save it to a database, and report it to AbuseIPDB. As written, it requires a MySQL database with one table and the following…