The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2015

De-broken WP; Yardwork

Well, sometime last week, one of the changes that I made while working with "responsive" Wordpress themes and site links broke the site. Not the part you see, but the administrative and posting functionality. Sadly, I've been busy enough that I didn't catch this until last night late. So I just fixed it, and I'm taking a few minutes to catch up. * * * Over the weekend, I washed the car, planted flowers front and back, and planted about half of the expected veggies. More on that later, but here's the Box of Pain (aka - peppers): * *…

Brian Bilbrey April 20, 2015

Yard, Themes

This weekend, I was working in the yard. The garden beds, they are ready for plants: That, along with mowing the lawns, twice, and cleaning out all of the front flower beds, took up most of Friday and Saturday. Sunday was rest (or its best friend, immobility). * * * Theme update: The theme, it is currently a bit hideous, but now mobile friendly, due to changes in how Google search results will be ranked. Here's a useful link on the topic from Digital Trends. Expect more work on this over the coming days. * * * Tech. Sgt. Anthony…

Brian Bilbrey April 12, 2015

All About Security

I spent my weekend attending talks at the inaugural BSides Charm City. BSides puts on several regional security conferences, and I'm glad they expanded into this geographic. Two full days of security talks has made my head explode, and now I'm a full week behind the curve on getting the yards ready for spring, but all good. I learned a lot! The conference sold out this year, but I am given to understand that they're moving to a larger venue next year, so if you're in the area and want to spend a little bit of money on a whole…

Brian Bilbrey April 5, 2015

Pushing harder

First, exercise. I've been pushing a lot harder the last couple of weeks. I'll do 20-30 minutes of alternating stretches and exercise (squats, sit-ups, push-ups), followed by 45+ minutes on the elliptical. My "best" day of the week was yesterday: I managed 60 minutes, 8200 strides, 1000+ calories burned on the machine. I probably pushed too hard - it hurt when I did a normal workout today. But overall, I feel better, and I sleep better. Those are both good things. I skipped a day on Wednesday. The body was demanding a short break, and the UP24 was mis-behaving. Taken…

Brian Bilbrey March 29, 2015

Staying Busy

It's a long list of small-ish chores that got done this weekend, too dull to enumerate. But lots got done, which is good. We're hopeful that by next weekend, Marcia will have the sewing room and fabric room reassembled and nice enough to show y'all a picture or two of how it came out. But right now it's a slice of Hell for the compulsive tidier... It was pretty cold this weekend - hovering around freezing. So, no yard work (not that I had time for any). On the exercise front, I'm back in full swing, however. According to my…