Data from one insurance-company survey suggest that the average person misplaces up to nine objects a day, which means that, by the time we turn sixty, we will have lost up to two hundred thousand things. […] Granted, you’ll get many of those items back, but you’ll never get back the time you wasted looking for them. In the course of your life, you’ll spend roughly six solid months looking for missing objects….

Forbes published an interesting review of the government’s use of in-car technology in criminal investigations. It’s a nice reminder that that disabled satellite radio or navigation service might not be as inactive as one thought. http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/01/15/police-spying-on-car-conversations-location-siriusxm-gm-chevrolet-toyota-privacy/#650201b649b5

Ventura breweries focus on their beers, while a rotating group of food trucks provide sustenance. Brilliant!

I love Google for many things, but nothing beats Excel. The new Office for Mac is unparalleled.

It’s hard not to laugh at some of the exploit attempts made against this VPS. Since it’s easy to tell that my site runs WordPress, those with nefarious intent probe for ways to access its configuration file. Fortunately, one of the security hardening options WordPress supports is moving wp-config.php above the web-accessible directory that holds the CMS itself. Alone this isn’t enough, but it’s nice knowing that unsavory individuals are consistently looking for things in the wrong places.

Eric Schlosser’s 2013 best-selling book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety was turned into an episode of PBS' American Experience program. Airing tomorrow night (January 10), the episode was filmed in a retired Titan II missile silo and incorporates original news footage from the incident. I read Command and Control a few years ago and it’s been one of my favorite books ever since, for the cautionary tale it presents.

My fifth VPS will replace my personal Slack instance with Mattermost. The $120 annual charge for the underlying VPS is worth the additional $39.961to know that I can add as many users as I want. Since I only use Slack to alert myself, I’m excited for the possibilities Mattermost provides. Versus a Standard plan with Slack for one user, at $6.67 per month, or $80.04 per year.

I didn’t realize my foot was asleep, stood up too quickly, and nearly fell through the glass coffee table. That certainly would’ve livened up my evening. 😕

Bought a bottle of wine using Android Pay, because I left my wallet at home. That worked out well!