Matt's Blog

I have very little money invested in either account, but this isn’t actually about money for those of you who are just skimming the article. 401(k) plan over the past year: A good investment. (Sort of.)   Actively-traded brokerage account I opened with a small amount of savings as an experiment after realizing my bank [...]

Like any good geek, I locked down my wireless network a bit after I set it up. I’m running WPA2, and the password/key was generated with pwqgen, for something sufficiently secure but semi-memorable. I disabled SSID broadcast. My router automatically generated a weird name, which I presume to be two random dictionary words mashed together. [...]

Protip: Don’t accidentally delete the Apache config file for a site. It took me 90 seconds to fix and 24 hours to notice. Oops… :-[