Geek Speak

In case you missed it, here is an article about keeping your WordPress installation safe. (more…)

So, my old #0 geek shirt is worn out, but I wore it to school today anyway for gym. And I got all kinds of smiles from geeky kindred spirits. So I’ve decided I need to make another, this time with a retro font like you might see on a baseball jersey. (more…)

I’d heard of the gmail logout loop before, but never experienced it until today when I was borrowing my mom’s mac. It was a terribly persistent little issue too. Essentially, when I tried to log out of my dad’s gmail in order to log into mine, I got caught on a screen that endlessly looped through the logout process without ever fully completing it. Restarting the browser window didn’t help, because anytime I’d go to gmail.com it’d have me automatically redirected to the same looping logout.

Clearing her cookies probably would have if I’d known where cookies were stored so I could selectively remove the ones I wanted without messing up the rest of them for her. But first I turned to google for my solution, and to my surprise, none of the top hits I scanned through had an easy fix.

So I figured out one myself. It’s easy, maybe even a bit of a face-palm sort of solution, but it worked. That page you’re googling from? Simply click logout on IT. That logout should work. If it doesn’t, try clearing your private data. You’ll have to re-log into sites that normally keep you signed in, but that’s not such a horrible thing. Good luck.

I didn’t get very many good photos at the UTOS Nerds in the Sun Barbecue this year, being stuck with a low res old camera and the rain and all. However, I must preserve the memory of Victor’s incredible grill… (more…)

I always thought I’d graduate to using ‘real’ book keeping software sometime down the road when I was earning enough to make great plans with my money.

As it turns out, I’m having to make great plans now. Well, greatly complicated plans anyway. I’m making my full-time-student budget work for me. We’re getting by, but just barely sometimes. And since I no longer have any W2 employment, I need a better way of tracking my income for taxes.

Open Office spreadsheets combined with downloaded statements from my banks had suited me just fine in the past. Now I’m looking for something to help me document everything more specifically, and help me to easily be able to pull up reports. The hunt commences today, and I’ll let you know what I find, but in the meantime if you’ve got recommendations I’d be happy to give them a go.