Category: Tech

  • Free Website Security Certificates (a/k/a Free SSL Certificates)

    If you have a website, you almost certainly need to secure it. Even for a simple WordPress blog like this one, security is a real problem; sites get hacked all the time, and even a site like this one can draw hundreds or thousands of hack attempts per day. Sometimes, it’s because hackers discover a…

  • Cereblitz Cart is Coming: A Shopping Cart for Customizable Products

    I am very excited to announce the formation of Cereblitz LLC and, with it, the upcoming launch of Cereblitz Cart! Cereblitz Cart is the First Cart Available to the Public that Supports Truly Customizable Products Cereblitz Cart is a completely new take on the traditional ecommerce model: you can sell absolutely anything with it. Traditional carts limit…

  • A good reminder: Hackers are out there

    A site I occasionally help out with was on the receiving end of a brute-force attack today. Nothing subtle about it: a single IP address in Europe sent nearly 50,000 attempts to log in using a single user account. Hackers are out there, people, and they are persistent. For securing WordPress sites, I highly recommend…

  • Ebooks Community on Stack Exchange

    Stack Exchange has launched (in beta) a wonderful new community at ebooks.stackexchange.com. It’s a fantastic and free resource for all questions related to ebooks – reading, writing, publishing, buying, selling, and lending. Anyone can ask a question, anyone can answer, and the best questions and answers get voted to the top. I encourage you to…

  • Site Move

    This site has found a new home, on a VPS (Virtual Private Server). My prior host had let me down far too often by failing to install current technology and by repeatedly installing spam filters that silently blocked (and in some cases, permanently deleted) only about half of my spam, along with hundreds of good…