The WHOIS service is almost as old as the modern Internet. When you register a domain name, ICANN requires the domain registrar to collect the contact information of the domain holder and make that publicly available. There are a number of sites online that let users query the WHOIS database for various domain names. This — Continue reading »
A Simple Post-HTTP-to-HTTPS SEO Checklist
📆 September 14, 2017
With Chrome version 62 arriving next month Google will begin making good on the promise of warning users when they land on non-secure (non-SSL, non-TLS) sites. This will be subtle at first with a light gray warning on pages that contain any input forms. This warning message will get progressively prevalent and prominent with every — Continue reading »
WordPress Global Replace http to https
📆 August 18, 2017
If you are dealing with the pain of migrating your site from non-secure plain http to secure SSL/TLS https, then you are also dealing with the headache of making sure the elements on your pages such as images have https sources instead of http. The reason is that if your pages are accessed over https — Continue reading »
The Long, Hard and Possibly Foolish Path to SSL/TLS Security
📆 July 3, 2017
... or TLS 1.2 on Fedora Core 14/FC14 and other older Linux versions With the chorus of secure browsing getting louder and becoming more prevalent, HTTPS migration is becoming inevitable. Going secure is a pretty major undertaking, fraught with numerous pitfalls. It starts with the source files that produce the html pages and it could — Continue reading »
Knee ACL Injury? Meniscus Tear? Stress Fracture? MRI Diagnosis
📆 January 22, 2017
I have been a runner for a major part of my life. Not champion material, not elite, not even great, just average. My marathon times are in the 4:10-ish area, but I do run consistently and over the decades it has become an inexorable part of my life. Problem is that running and aging don't — Continue reading »
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