The personal website of Matt Henderson.
01 July 2016
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 his way to the top of my inbox”, in an effort to just “circle up” and “hop on a call.”
27 June 2016
In this interview, Milton Friedman responds to Phil Donahue’s concerns about greed.
14 June 2016
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…”
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 with the FlashRouters company, the Tomato router firmware software, an OpenVPN connection to the Cloak network, the Linksys E2500 router and the Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router.
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 something like /i/ or /in/ in their URLs?
29 April 2016
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.
19 April 2016
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 of external bootable backups.
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.