canspice.org is now on twitter

Sometime after 8:31pm PST on 7 February, tweets from my Twitter account stopped automatically posting to Facebook. Nothing seemed to have changed, so trying to fix the problem was troublesome. I finally figured it out, so here are step-by-step instructions on getting your tweets back onto Facebook: Go to the Twitter app page on Facebook….

The people of Hawaii County must be learning, because this week’s list of baby names is filled with awesome. Let’s get started! Kicking off the awesome streak is Falen. Now, I’m not quite sure how this is pronounced, but if it’s pronounced “failin’”, then this kid has an instant awesome nickname: “Can’t Be” Falen! Awesome!…

Trick question: it always is. But unfortunately, some people in New Westminster seem to believe that it magically ceases to be a stop sign under some circumstances. The intersection of Sixth Avenue and First Street has a pedestrian-controlled flashing green light on Sixth, and stop signs on First. If you need pictures, here you go:…

Jonathan X. Cote is running for Mayor of New Westminster, and he answered my questions. Thank you for answering! Obviously this is all satire, except for The Truth About The Machine! Question: Supporting and growing local businesses will help keep jobs in New Westminster, grow our tax base, provide opportunity for New Westminster citizens to…

I’ve decided to move my blog away from WordPress and to Octopress. Why? Simple. I don’t blog as much any more, and I don’t have time for blogging much any more. Part of being a responsible website operator is making sure your website hasn’t been hacked to serve out bad things. WordPress, being a dynamically-generated…

The Have I Been Pwned website lets you check your email address against a large number of data breaches. If it’s in there, then your email address and probably some form of your password are out there to the public, all ready for nefarious use. And security researchers all say that you shouldn’t re-use passwords,…