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Artificial Cats Looking at Artificial Flowers … What Could Go Wrong

The last post featured a cute little dog looking at a pumpkin, both of which were generated using artificial intelligence. In this case the two cats here are supposed to be a pair of Manx, but they seem to be a little generic. The descriptive phrase used was “Two Manx …

Thacher Park View

Here is a 360^o from the picnic area near the Haile’s Cave area of Thacher State Park. This is an experiment to find an acceptable panorama view plugin that works in WordPress. So far, this is the best one I have found. The others I have tried are terrible.

If you go about ¹/₄ mile farther along the road from this site you will come to the gate for the rock climbing access. The views from this entire segment of the park are fabulous. On this day we could see all the way to the Berkshires.

Not bad, eh?

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Yes, the Bad Guys Really Are Trying to Break Into Your Web Site

I have been reading some posts and notes regarding the attempts that Internet Bad Guys have been very busy lately. The thing is this, the Bad Guys want to break into your Web site to do nefarious stuff. There’s any number of reasons why they try to do this. Sometimes …

Old Slide Scan: Independence Hall

One of the problems that many photographers (both pro and amateur) have is that over the course of the past 20 years there have been major changes, especially in the shift from film to digital formats. As a result, a lot of use have boxes of old slides that we …

Expect Trouble If Your Site Is Not HTTPS

Engadget has recently published an article here that says Google will cause you a great deal of trouble when they come out with Chrome version 68 very soon. Of course, they do not specifically say “Google will cause you trouble”. Rather, they advise that the new version of Chrome will …

Did You Know THIS – You can also specify the date on which you want a WordPress page published!

In our previous post we explained how you can specify publication dates for your WordPress posts. Well, you can also set publication dates for your Web site pages, too! This is a cool feature of WordPress. Let’s say that you have a major event scheduled for your business, such as …

Did You Know – You can specify your WordPress Post Dates

Did you know that you can specify the date of a WordPress post. Yes, it is true. If you want your post to go up on a particular date other than the one you write it on, you can select that date. There’s nothing to it! It is extremely simple. …

Web Tech Tip: Check to Make Sure You Own Your Domain Name!

I received one of the periodic email messages that domain name owners receive, and as I was managing the tasks required by the message I realized that many of my readers may not be familiar with this very important topic. Whaaaaaat????? Well, that was a hyperbolic way of saying that …

What Is CDN and How Can It Help My Web Site?

CDN stands for “Content Delivery Network” and it is a very clever method of speeding up Web site data delivery. The behind-the-scenes implementation is complicated, but the basic principles are easy to understand. To figure it all out, let’s start by looking at a “traditional” Web site delivery system. …

Web Site Security Certificates – SSL – What is it and why do I need it?

In case you have missed it, and I can’t imagine how you could have, there’s been a lot of talk about Web site security. A year or two ago, Uncle Google started giving priority to sites that were “secure”. If you are a WordPress user on Blue Host, you may …