The Geeky Gardener

05/23/2019

No Garden?

For the first time in over 20 years I’m not raising a garden this year.

03/19/2019

The Good Pain

This past year I’ve been on a quest to improve my health.  When I started, I weighed 270 pounds!  So far I’ve lost close to 40 pounds, but I wanted more than a simple diet.  I wanted a permanent transformation.  After much Googling I settled on a few simple change

02/06/2019

A New Beginning

12/07/2016

My beloved Pebble is no more.

RIP Pebble... The wearable maker that pioneered wrist-based notifications before Apple and many others waded into the smartwatch space has confirmed it's..

12/07/2016

The easiest way to monitor your network! https://www.geekygarden.com/blogposts/2016/12/6/nodeping-easy-network-monitoring

At Bob’s I manage the networks at multiple locations like our stores,
greenhouses, and at our HQ. Way back when, the only way I knew when a
connection, device, or service went down was when I got a call from someone
that something wasn’t working correctly. There had to be a more efficient ..

10/26/2016

When IoT Attacks https://www.geekygarden.com/blogposts/2016/10/25/when-iot-attacks

On Friday morning I was awakened by my phone’s text alert. It was the
uptime monitoring system for Bob’s. It’s not uncommon for less important
devices, like the greenhouse we**am, to restart and show up as offline for
a few minutes each week. However, this alert was for our website. It
n...

10/25/2016

The WV Cyber Security Conference is streaming live today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTWo6_CXN04

West Virginia is participating in NCSAM (National Cyber Security Awareness Month), in an effort to do our part to make the Internet safer for everyone, by ho...

10/24/2016

Sweet! I'll be rolling out SSL to all my clients today. Nothing needs to be done on your end. http://blog.squarespace.com/blog/were-securing-millions-of-websites-with-ssl

Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a technology that secures the connection between your browser and the website you’re visiting. It allows you and your website visitors to feel confident that their information is secure. And we believe that confidence is an important part of your online identity.

08/15/2016

This is a system I could get behind. :-)

Google has a new operating system called Fuchsia in development, with the early results publicly available on Github (and you can even compile and run it..

08/06/2016

The new change looks great!

If you've visited a business or brand's page in recent days, you may have noticed things look a little different. The company is now finalizing the..

08/02/2016

The Internet Doesn't Wait for Approvals http://www.geekygarden.com/blogposts/2016/8/2/the-internet-doesnt-wait-for-approvals

I tend to steer away from politics in my blog posts, but this has been a
really interesting election to say the least. Love him or hate him, Donald
Trump has proven just how out of touch “old media” is with the world of the
Internet. A key component of Trump’s success has been his Twitter ac...

05/28/2016

http://www.geekygarden.com/blogposts/2016/5/18/the-millennial-tech-misconception

Millennials are NOT good at computers! I’m tired of hearing about how they
grew up with computers and technology is second nature to them.
Furthermore, the idea that being a Millennial automatically qualifies them
for technology-related jobs is absurd. Once you here my logic, I’m sure
you...