# The Phone I received an Oppo N1 from a friend who frequently travels to China. Insert my SIM card and voilà, I have a new phone. The phone is large. It's easy to underestimate…

For the past decade or so, I've backed up my data to an offsite location. The varieties of solutions I've employed range from renting a dedicated server to using commercial software like Backblaze or Wuala.

## Levi's 501 For as long as I can remember, I've been wearing Levi's 501 Shrink to fit jeans. I generally get rid of them when they either fade too much or become threadbare. I've…

I've been running the unbound DNS resolver for a while now. I find that sometimes clients hammer the resolver with duplicate queries. I also run the fail2ban log watcher to track repeated failures and block…

In 2012, I wrote about bitcoin banks and websites as I was researching the usefulness of bitcoin. I signed up with a few and tried them out. Most of them seemed like amateur sites written…