The incident management system has a nice feature where when changes happen on a ticket, it puts something in a notification pull down where I can easily go to see what’s new. My only problem is the listing basically says “Follow Update – CMP-INC1…” for everything. There’s no way to tell what it’s an update…
Maggie Smith of The Slowdown podcast on the Make Me Smart podcast called writing like a message in bottle. It’s putting thoughts out into the world without really knowing who will read it. Without knowing who or how it will affect others. I’ve had this blog since 2000. That’s over a quarter century of messages. Thousands…
I have a Google saved search on certain work related keywords that populate RSS feeds I then read in Inoreader. One called “Student finance chief outlines Georgia Match, Promise Scholarship and HOPE administration” caught my eye because I work on some Georgia Match stuff. This article reads like a beat reporter attended the session and…
Your friendly reminder to minimize the WordPress plugins you deploy to what you actually need. BleepingComputer has an article: A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrative permissions. ACF Extended, currently active on 100,000 websites, is a specialized plugin…
It’s amusing to me that I helped some colleagues get OpenJDK installed. They were trying to do the for all users install and hitting up against the requirement that they don’t have administrator access to install software on their computers. So, I noticed the for me only option and got them to try it. I…
When seeking assistance, the questions we ask inform the thinking of the machines or people giving answers. My initial work experience involved helping people research information. How to find books. How to search the internet or databases. One of the most important skills we taught was to locate salient terms as they influence the answers…
Non-specific error messages without a recourse are the bane of my existence. I need something I can do. An action i can take to fix the issue. In my professional life, my job is to fix it, so a vague meaningless error message means hours of trying things. Depending on impact, this might sit broken…
I see of late this blog gets weird traffic spikes. They are for older posts, so unlikely to be from subscribers or RSS fed. No referrer traffic, so not from search engines. Gotta be AI scraping the content. All the past week it was mostly China. Today, it’s the USA.
Last spring, I resurrected my https://www.inoreader.com/ account to get RSS feed subscriptions for news sources. My email accounts are so over run that I’m not likely to track what’s happening local through them. So, I made a change. Today, looking through, I noticed an article about a suspicious death and police soliciting for more information.…