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Nokia Lumia 928 Windows Phone: First Impressions

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I just added the Nokia Lumia 928 to The Quest. It’s a Windows 8 Phone (or is that Windows Phone 8 phone?). My primary phone is an iPhone 4S. This isn’t replacing that, at least not yet. Officially it’s replacing a terrible Android phone on a second line. I’m new to Windows Phone, of any version, although I use (and love) a Surface RT and run Windows 8 on my desktop. This article are my first impressions after a couple days. I ordered online due to the pricing, but picked [...] Read the rest »

SSL Lock Tile

Adding A Trusted SSL Certificate

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I've been using a self-signed certificate for years in order to encrypt my admin traffic to my websites. Some of my integrations have had problems with self-signed certificates, wanting a trusted certificate. Most had a work-around but I finally decided to bite the bullet, spend some money, and get a trusted certificate from a respected certificate authority. Here's the setup, completed on a Sunday afternoon. Read the rest »

Dropping Feedburner on July 1st

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Feedburner has been suffering from neglect for what seems like years.  I’ve decided that July 1, 2013 will be a good time to cut the Feedburner connection for my RSS feed. That’s when Google shutters Google Reader which will no doubt cause a decrease in subscribers and some chaos all by itself. I’m going with the native WordPress RSS feed, rather than be at the mercy of another service again. I already updated the RSS subscription link on the top of this blog so you can update your subscription if [...] Read the rest »

Security Shield

WordPress and Other Security Concerns

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There’s been a lot of press recently about increased attacks on WordPress sites, and I run WordPress. At first I considered it BS since it seemed ike a standard brute force attack. Not that I didn’t think attacks were going on, a view of logs on my own small servers shows attacks all the time.  But Brian Krebs published an article about it and I figure he has a better BS detector than me in these matters. So maybe there has been an increase. I figure I’m pretty safe, I [...] Read the rest »