Having recently discovered that Amazon closed my affiliate referral account, this article describes the support odyssey I went through in figuring out why and getting the situation resolved.
The path less traveled.
Having recently discovered that Amazon closed my affiliate referral account, this article describes the support odyssey I went through in figuring out why and getting the situation resolved.
Several weeks ago, I posted a job on Upwork looking for an individual who could help me test our new product, ChessDrop. In addition to…
In a recent Philip Greenspan post questioning Apple’s competitive edge going forward, I found myself sympathizing with this anecdote: What about Apple’s supposed leadership in…
When you create a droplet (virtual private server) at DigitalOcean, the service sends you an email containing the login password of the root user. The…
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This website runs on WordPress, and over the past several years has seen its hosting move from the DreamHost shared environment, to DreamPress managed hosting, to GoDaddy managed hosting to, finally, DigitalOcean. This article explains why.
Cozmoslabs is a Romanian company that sells products, through an intermediary company called Avangate, for building WordPress sites. I purchased a plugin from them, subsequently decided it wasn’t for me and requested a refund. I was eventually granted a refund, but only after some frustration and confusion. Here’s the story.
A while back I created a second personal website at rantbox.io. The idea was that my frequent complaints about things really weren’t content I wanted…
The inferior man’s reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex—because it puts an unbearable burden on…
Back in 2003, I posted this paragon of user interface design that I discovered at the Malaga airport, when trying to pay for my parking…
I just love the cultural differences in Europe. This Christmas, we played two chess tournaments—one in Spain, and the other in Germany. Prior to the…
