I got tired of the performance issues I was having so I’ve migrated my blog to a Slicehost slice (512MB). Hopefully nothing is broken, but if you notice something let me know. Everything should load more quickly and consistently going forward!
To make up for posting that downer of a TSA article how about some photos from the day I spent in Jasper National Park? Click any image to go to the Flickr page and see it in larger sizes. Or you could just view the entire set! A Cold Canoe Ride Big Horn Sheep Ice [...]
Having just returned from a trip to Canada I have now experienced the new TSA security theater1 for flights inbound to the US from abroad. Hopefully your own experience will not mirror mine, but if these restrictions stay in place this post could be helpful to some.2 At check-in we discovered that the TSA will [...]
Having realized that I haven’t looked at WordPress theme development in nearly a year, I decided to search around and ended up switching over to Mystique. The theme offers a wealth of features and even obsoletes some plugins and widgets I was previously using. I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it long-term but it’s [...]
Short and sweet. This command will give you a list of revoked serial numbers: openssl crl -inform DER -text -noout -in mycrl.crl Most CRLs are DER encoded, but you can use -inform PEM if your CRL is not binary. If you’re unsure if it is DER or PEM open it with a text editor. If [...]
As internationalized domain names (IDN) proliferate more people need to test with, and ultimately purchase, IDN certificates. If you need to generate a CSR or even a self-signed certificate for an internationalized domain follow these steps: Take the UTF-8 characters and paste them into a punycode converter (also known as ASCII compatible encoding, or ACE). [...]