Malcolm Gin

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…

This is a test of the Emergency Malcolm Broadcast. This is only a test.

Just a note about a day in the life of a geek. This all starts with the fact that I…

The title is meant to read , but WordPress’s Jetpack Plugin’s Beautiful Math component doesn’t execute latex markup in the…

This writeup is inspired by the remote geek consulting I’m doing for my sweetie while she’s visiting Mom and trying…

Over the years, MSNBC has been using and reusing a particular visual rhetorical style for presenting job growth numbers since…

Fire drills, whispers, curses, checkers – since I’m half Chinese, I know how often these things get misattributed to folks…

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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One of the geeky intersections I have in personal and professional geekery is that of reporting issues. Sometimes this is…

I’ve been a geek all my life. My work, my play, my housekeeping all involve geeking at some level. While…

It wasn’t until I’d been sharpening knives for more than 40 years that I figured out that the sharpest knife…

Sounds like another round of WordPress blog hackings are making the rounds. I had my two WordPress blogs hacked by…

Here we discuss network design from the point of view of WiFi versus hard line links within the household.

I recently upgraded my home network by buying, configuring and installing a hobbyists’ “performance” router, the Edge Router LITE from…