Geek On The Hill

Note: This article has been extensively revised on March 11, 2019. This article describes how I built a honeypot script that catches robots and human miscreants that attempt to access CMS login pages that don’t exist on my sites, and…

A few days ago, I woke up with some back and hip pain. It wasn’t bad enough to call the doctor about, but it was bad enough to be annoying. It felt like mild sciatica. I decided to rub some…

Ever since Al Gore’s Electoral College loss to George W. Bush in 2000, and even more intensely since Hillary Clinton’s Electoral College loss to Donald Trump in 2016, my liberal friends and family members have been calling for the abolition…

One of the few things I really miss about being on a low-carb diet is pizza. I used to consider it one of the food groups. A few days ago I started wondering whether using Lavash bread (an Armenian flatbread)…

My relationship with Adobe ended last year around this time. Not only did I cancel my Creative Cloud subscription, but I had Adobe delete my account. I had decided I never again wanted to have anything to do with Adobe.…

Last week, I signed up for Verizon’s unlimited, prepaid Jetpack service. This is a mobile Internet service that uses Verizon’s 4G signal to provide broadband Internet using a hotspot (the Jetpack). I can’t provide a fully-qualified review because I’ve only…

I just ordered another LG V20 phone. I don’t actually need it at the moment, but I bought it anyway. It will either be a replacement for my current one if I break it somehow, or it will go to…

Let me begin by saying that this article is not so much a “how-to” as a “how I did” post. I don’t claim that this is the only way, nor even the best way, to optimize magicJack’s performance. It’s just…

A few friends of mine who read my post about hooking up a portable generator to power my house have raised a few good points about information that I omitted or could have described more fully, so I decided to…

I belong to all three major “warehouse clubs” in the United States: Sam’s Club, BJ’s, and Costco. I hold the higher levels of membership in Sam’s Club (“Plus”) and Bj’s (“Perks Rewards”), and the standard-level membership (“Gold Star”) in Costco.…