The one in which we think about friends.

Friends are awesome. Have you ever thought about those who were friends but, for better or worse, aren’t so much anymore? With headphones on and matchsticks propping open my eyelids, I did a little brain dump of some stuff in my head on the topic.

Automating Letsencrypt renewals with DNS-01 challenges

Letsencrypt and certbot are great for getting SSL certificates, however, if you’re using DNS-01 it’s not easy to automate renewals. I decided to fix that, at least for my use case with CloudFlare.

Migrating WordPress to AWS Lightsail (and other related changes) – Part 2

In part 1 I gave a bit of background and discussed moving the website hosting for two of my sites. In part 2 I’ll discuss domains… Thrilling stuff!</sarcasm>

Migrating WordPress to AWS Lightsail (and other related changes) – Part 1

As some of you will know, my position with my current employer has recently been “disestablished”. I won’t go into the story around that, at least at this point, however as part of my preparing to leave I’ve been working on moving all my services away from said employer (an ISP).

Payoneer – An internet payment journey – Part 3

In part’s 1 and 2 I went through the beginning of the process of acquiring a US-based credit card (if you haven’t read them, this post probably won’t mean much so they are a better place to start) and left you, dear reader, waiting with baited breath (Yeah yeah I know, you’d almost forgotten really)…

Payoneer – An internet payment journey – Part 2

Well, this hardly rates as a post but oh well. Just a quick update to say that the payment I’d made to my Payoneer account has finally shown up. It did so some time on the evening of Friday the 12th (at midnight EST, so it was, at least, a predictable time).

Payoneer – An internet payment journey – Part 1

Well, “journey” might be overselling it a little, but I’m not yet at the end so who knows! Basically I’m setting myself up with a CreditCard via Payoneer; here lies the story of what I had to do and how it all worked out…

Home Automation, OpenHAB, Z-Wave

Home Automation and “The Internet of Things” are common terms these days. This is the start of my journey down that path… starting with OpenHAB and Z-Wave.

Maybe it’s the time of year…

Wow, coincidence? After much neglect I come back to this blog, answer a few questions and do some updates. While trawling around I notice that the last post I made was exactly one year ago today!! Maybe it’s the time of year. The cold weather has me relaxing on the couch keeping warm; no doubt…

Raring Ringtail (Ubuntu 13.04)

Everyone needs a project, and for a few reasons I recently decided my project was to get Ubuntu running on my desktop PC. I wanted something to distract me from working at home too much, and I needed a distraction from my head being in overdrive. And so the mission began…

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