Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants

I have missed the actual birthday of Star Trek- September 8- by a good week. I have a good excuse as I was away visiting friends and touring around Radium Hot Springs at the time. I could have posted something I suppose, and I definitely felt the urge to do so when I saw Wilhelm […]

I refuse to name the man here today who has called for the closure of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (CBC) in Washington. But he is the one who rules from on high south of our border, the man who hasn’t met a monument, airport, or national treasure that he hasn’t immediately wanted […]

My best friend Chris reached out to me at the end of June with a plan to meet up at a midway point between his home in Edmonton and our home in Castlegar. He would be travelling with his significant other Billie and his brother Richard, and I would aim to bring Irene along for […]

Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril wrote a nice piece on boredom and what it means to him. I’ve had some time to ponder and developed some of my own thoughts on the topic. As per usual I am sharing those ideas here out of a desire to break up my day and relieve some […]

I decided recently that it was time to build a new network attached storage service for our home network. I have an old one, a NetGear ReadyNAS NVX+, but it is no longer maintainable. The ReadyNAS admin UI doesn’t even support TLS 1.2, which means most modern browsers cannot connect to its administration page. Speaking […]