Moved to DigitalOcean

Yesterday I moved this site to DigitalOcean (referral link).  I had been running on Verzion FiOS at Jeff’s house, but I think that little N54L was too overloaded.  So I signed up for the cheapest DigitalOcean plan at $5/month and setup an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server with Nginx.  I put it in Google’s NYC data … Read more

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Update 2013-12-23: Using the internet access on my phone I’ve moved the website to another server (thanks Jeff!)  So the website is back up.   My internet is going down until Jan 1st. Looks like I forgot to disable my CrashPlan backup again (unfortunately CrashPlan doesn’t offer a way to stop backing up to CrashPlan … Read more

Quicken 2014. Horrible.

Dear Intuit, I’ve been a long time Quicken user, my dad taught me to use Quicken for DOS to track money in my “Bank of Dad” account. My current Quicken file which I started in college after opening my bank account has data back since 2001. For the last 12-years I’ve loyally purchased a new … Read more

Website back up

My Xeoned Microserver caught fire and burned up! Just kidding. |:-) A few weeks ago out of the blue a real-estate agent told me the house we’re renting was going to be put on the market.  I was surprised because owners typically list in Spring or Summer when people are looking to buy a house, … Read more