WordPress

Why do I use WordPress if it sucks?. Great question. Right now, WordPress is the most popular blogging/cms platform. It has all the eyeballs, all the developers building cool things for it in the plugin ecosystem, etc. That also means it’s a very big target for hackers. Small blogs like mine are not a very exciting target, but in the age of using search engines to discover lists of vulnerable sites, I may get hacked someday anyway. Not because I’m doing anything wrong, just because I’m running WordPress and that makes it nearly impossible to protect my site. ...

I moved from the Seattle area to Utah County about four years ago. One of the hardest parts of that move was the extreme lack of good food in Utah. I grew up in Utah and always figured we had good food here, but just in the expensive restaurants. I was wrong. There is no substitute for seafood only a few hours old, and it will never be possible to have that kind of freshness in Utah. One coping method I’ve found is to go on vacations, with the goal of eating great food being high on the list of reasons for choosing a location. ...