Category Archives: Technology

Bad bot

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Kevin

My web sites don’t get a lot of traffic. One of them dealing with the birther movement was getting 40,000 unique visitors a month, but after I stopped publishing new articles, that dropped sharply. What continued was search engine spiders … Continue reading →

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Web attacks

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Kevin

All of my blogs were down yesterday and I spent several hours scrambling to get things back up. Someone started attacking the Contact Us page on one of my other blogs. I got over 76,000 spam emails from it, but … Continue reading →

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Can I guess your password?

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Kevin

I probably could. Just give me a few billion guesses. Web sites that you log into don’t store your password; they use some cryptographic technique to store a scrambled version of it. When you log in, they scramble the password … Continue reading →

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I feel like I’m being followed

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Kevin

I posted a message last year on the Tesla forum about an upcoming round trip of about 200 miles and whether I could make it on my then Model S 60 in Winter. The consensus was that I’d have to … Continue reading →

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My new car

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Kevin

What? You only bought a new car in September! I upgraded my Model S 60 to a Model S 75 “over the air.” I paid some money and my old car turned into a different model. It took about 10 … Continue reading →

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Got my 15 minutes of fame

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Kevin

I’ve been trying to identify exactly what my personal “15 minutes of fame” has been. I have a new candidate, only this one is limited to Japan. Late last year Toyoki Nakanishi, a reporter from The Nikkei, the leading Japanese business … Continue reading →

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A radical solution to my data problem

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Kevin

My doctor told me to get more exercise, and so now I walk a couple of miles a day. I usually do it about 4 pm when “All Things Considered” is on NPR. There’s an app for that and I … Continue reading →

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