Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Spam from Spencer Mains and LiveRamp

Continuing in my spammer Hall of Shame series, here’s an persistent (and ongoing) series of spam from Spencer Mains at a company called LiveRamp. Spencer, being the hipster type, is fond of “bumping

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Milton Friedman on Greed

In this interview, Milton Friedman responds to Phil Donahue's concerns about greed.

Photo gallery at Flickr

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Spam from Designstraw

Since 2011, I've been receiving spam from this company, Designstraw, and always with the same, "We're looking to take on a few extra projects..."

May 9, 2011

May 10, 2012

June 26, 2013

Feb 17, 2015

June

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How to protect your home network with a VPN router

In this article, I describe how I added security to my home network by installing a router that directs all internet traffic through an encrypted VPN connection. The adventure includes my experience

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Using WordPress redirection plugins to create easy-to-remember social links

I’ve never been good at remembering my social media URLs. Am I “dafacto” there or “mhenders”? At Facebook, where neither was available, what was that URL stub I chose? And doesn’t LinkedIn include

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Just another day in Spain

To give you a sense of life in Andalucia Spain, I present to you the short journey from my office in Marbella, to the small restaurant where I frequently have lunch.

We begin with the city employee

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The importance of external bootable backups

This morning I posted an article about some CrashPlan-related issues discovered when migrating my wife’s dead iMac to a new machine. Another lesson learned in that situation was about the importance

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Mac OS X — admin vs wheel group (and how that affected CrashPlan)

Last week my wife’s four-year old iMac died. When the new one arrived, I set it via migration in the form of a USB-connected drive containing a mirror of her old system.

After booting up the migrated

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How I migrated my snippets from TextExpander to Keyboard Maestro

TextExpander is a Mac utility for creating auto-expanding text shortcuts—“snippets”—that can save you time on things you repetitively type, such as email signatures, your telephone number or

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2016 Andalucia Kids Chess Championship

The 2016 Andalucia Kids Chess Championship took place at the El Fuerte hotel in beautiful, El Rompido, Spain.

Over the course of three days, nearly 400 participants played nine rounds of chess in the

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