http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/12/19/trying-out-this-new-hosting-service-i-wonder-how/
I wonder how hard it will be to get my blogging scripts up and running on this beast.

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/12/20/test/
My site, lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us has moved. Thanks to the magic of the internets, its address is still lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us. It was running on one set of machines; now it runs on another set of machines.
I was hosting the site at Verio. (I started out hosting it at Best.com, ( Read more... )

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/11/14/spam-nation-brian-krebs-writes-about-computer-cr/
Brian Krebs writes about computer crime. In this book, he traces the spam economy. Want to know how America's health care system keeps Putin in power? (Yes, I read this book a while back, before we knew Russia was trying to influence the USA election ( Read more... )

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/11/09/walking-around-my-neighborhood-today/
Walking around my neighborhood today, I see 100% grim faces. It reminds me of hallways in companies facing multiple layoffs.

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/10/30/san-francisco-peeps-who-haven-t-already-voted-hr/
San Francisco peeps who haven't already voted: Hoodline's Election Guide is a darned handy collection of slates.

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/10/27/last-week-i-walked-most-way-around-bay-again-i-w/
Last week, I walked most of the way around the bay (again). This week, I wrote about it. Unlike the previous time I walked most of the way around the bay, I didn't make a point of stopping at interesting places. Thus the walk was mostly uneventful. ( Read more... )

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/10/24/geek-sublime-though-we-can-all-agree-that-paul-g/
Though we can all agree that Paul Graham was full of shit when he said computer hackers were like painters (in his essay Hackers and Painters), I guess I don't want to read these essays by someone who's done computer-y stuff and creative stuff and ( Read more... )

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/10/21/just-now-back-from-most-way-around-bay-walk/
I'm just now back from a most-of-the-way-around-the-bay walk. My feet must recuperate. I may wear socks and sandals together. I appreciate your understanding during this difficult time.

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/10/14/wild-it-was-bestseller-everybody-read-this-befor/
It was a bestseller. Everybody read this before I did. You probably already read this or decided you wouldn't. Anyhow. It's a memoir of grief on the Pacific Coat Trail. I saw the movie before I read the book; I liked the movie. The book was different ( Read more... )

http://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2016/10/12/i-was-abstractly-tsk-ing-rumors-that-yahoo-had-s/
I was abstractly tsk-ing the rumors that Yahoo had stopped forwarding email until I remembered that a couple of SF Bay Area puzzlehunt mailing lists are on Yahoo Groups.
Hmm, when I go visit puzzlehuntcalendar, it says that there's a Mastermind Hunt ( Read more... )