Be back soon …

In a few weeks, our rental agreement ends at our current residence. The good news is that we’re going to buy a home in the same region. The bad news is that we haven’t found the right home to buy yet. So we’re placing all of our belongings in storage, then heading to an extended [...]

Site hack recap

So, the site is back to normal. The question is how did this happen? My passwords consist of 12 randomly-generated digits/symbols, I’m using the latest versions of WordPress and various plug ins. It could be that I was just one of the lucky first few to have their WP 2.7 installs compromised. It could also [...]

Site will be back to normal soon

Even though this site was running the latest version of WordPress (2.7) and the latest plug in versions, it was taken over sometime overnight and replaced with a site espousing an end to Palestinian violence. Thankfully, I had a good backup. I’m still in the process of restoring everything, changing and strengthening passwords, etc. Everything [...]

Catching Up, Lessons Learned

Well, I’m happy to say the move is over. Before I recap some of my technology-oriented ‘lessons learned’ during this period of transition, I’d like to respond to some of the comments received over the past couple of months while I was not monitoring this site: 1. Reader Lek asked how to convert (or move) [...]

Moving to Maryland. Back next month.

UPDATE: It’s Sept. 3, and the move is almost over. We move into a new home this weekend. Now we just have to wait for our stuff and our car to catch up with us. These items will arrive, with luck, sometime before the end of October. So, it’s taken me a bit longer than [...]

Site update

I’ve received a couple of reader comments over the past few months asking if I would consider creating a lighter-colored theme. The gist of it is that the dark colors of View from the Dock are fine for short posts, but some people don’t enjoy reading the longer review articles on the dark background (my [...]