Month: March 2017

Muscle Memory It's really a bitch.  It does have the consequence of producing some very bad results.  Working hard to get something done quickly to solve a problem that you aren't familiar with then finding the solution then putting that solution in place where you use muscle memory instead of thinking through the actual issue.  Here's what happened.  Man was I perplexed and when I discovered what I'd actually done was a pissed at myself. My main website is self hosted.  I use letsencrypt to provide the certificates.  Every so often you get a message that the certificate is out of date and needs to be renewed.  I did this by creating a script that runs via a cronjob off the root account every 2.5 months.  One script triggers as…

I'm a believer in giving you what you pay for.  My services have been offered for over a decade now. I do just about everything.  My prices are the same as they have been for over 5 years.  I haven't increased my costs. Today though I received two calls.  One was from someone that wanted to know if I could install Windows on his computer.  I explained that I do that all the time virtually every day.  I checked further by asking if he had the product key for windows.  He said he did not have the disc and didn't know the product key.  He said he had a virus that he couldn't get off his computer.  He said he had a second hard drive.  He said the virus was…