I haven’t done HTML/Javascript geeking in a while, but thought while I’m in downtime between courses for my Data Science…
Author: Malcolm Gin
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Making a Home WiFi Network faster
My friend Deb came by yesterday and after some fiddling we got her computer on my wired Ethernet network, which…
Taoism and the Sage
By sagely, what I mean is that there is an oft forgotten set of ethics that are meant to apply to all Taoists, especially the successful ones. It’s a mix of altruism, governance, manipulation, idealism, and pragmatism, and the idea is that each Taoist follower, each potential sage, is supposed to be doing a lot of long-term thinking and supposed to be able to take advantage of prevailing political, social, and cultural conditions to take custody of and responsibility for their people, their land, their world.
About Pupusas
Said I on some social medium somewhere, “If you ever come to California and find yourself driving ‘the 5’ (highway…
Statistics – This could be you! – Bayesian Conditional Probability and Medical Tests
As many of you know, I’m taking, for career change and self improvement, a certified curriculum offered by Columbia University…
MacBook Pro slow shutdown (macOS Sierra)
Just a quick tech note. If you have macOS Sierra and you’re a coding/geeky/programming type and your OS is taking…
Testing connections
This is a test of the Emergency Malcolm Broadcast. This is only a test.
Upgrading MediaWiki
Just a note about a day in the life of a geek. This all starts with the fact that I…
The notability of $latex (82,000)_{10}$
The title is meant to read , but WordPress’s Jetpack Plugin’s Beautiful Math component doesn’t execute latex markup in the…
Home Networking 3 – A review of the basics
This writeup is inspired by the remote geek consulting I’m doing for my sweetie while she’s visiting Mom and trying…
Visual Rhetoric – Some feedback for MSNBC
Over the years, MSNBC has been using and reusing a particular visual rhetorical style for presenting job growth numbers since…
Misascribed – Chinese things
Fire drills, whispers, curses, checkers – since I’m half Chinese, I know how often these things get misattributed to folks…
Measuring and Calibration – Science Geek Series
A lot of bakers and chefs and chemists will tell you that they’re in the same business. So, in a…
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Reporting Issues – Geek-as-a-Trade series
One of the geeky intersections I have in personal and professional geekery is that of reporting issues. Sometimes this is…
Philosophy and Introduction – Geek-as-a-Trade series
I’ve been a geek all my life. My work, my play, my housekeeping all involve geeking at some level. While…
WordPress, Security, Hacking, Recovering from a Hack, and General Discussion
Sounds like another round of WordPress blog hackings are making the rounds. I had my two WordPress blogs hacked by…
Home Networking 2 – WiFi versus hard lines
Here we discuss network design from the point of view of WiFi versus hard line links within the household.
Home Networking 1
I recently upgraded my home network by buying, configuring and installing a hobbyists’ “performance” router, the Edge Router LITE from…