So, before anyone jumps on the title of this article as some vague racial slur on the Irish, it’s a play on words and a reference to me having been born in Ireland and my take on a classic Thai dish (had to say that, as you can get shot for practically saying anything these […]
Author: Andy Grogan
Something a little different – a new section to the site….
So for those of you who have reading my site for the last 14 years or so, you will be familiar with its fundamental technical nature. The site has been called “funny”, “different”, “irreverent” and, in later years … “dead”. I can understand and agree with all of those descriptions, including the “dead” reference at […]
Chicken Stir Fry
This flavoursome and tangy dish I came up with one night recently when my lad was saying over during his half term. His mum had said to me that he liked a stir fry – but when I asked him about it he said that he didn’t as (apparently) mum’s was bland and the overall […]
Perfect Poached Eggs!
So, many years ago I learned how to make the perfect poached eggs to impress my girlfriend at the time. She was someone who was very important to me and I wanted her to wake up each morning where I would bring these to her (as a poached egg was one of favourite things). However, […]
Low volume on videos on YouTube via a Mac….
So here’s a thing … I am a mad Foo Fighters fan. It’s not even funny, I like to think of myself as Taylor Hawkins’s slightly fatter, non drum playing brother (if he let himself go a little – Taylor if you read this, I can use a Keyboard like you hit those skins buddy […]
Tracking unusual traffic on your WordPress website using Splunk Community Edition – Part 2
Welcome back to the second part of my three part series on using Splunk Community Edition to track for unusual activity on your Apache based WordPress site. Or, as I am now beginning to call it – me versus China! (Again, nothing against China – but – man, you trap one bot and another just […]
Tracking unusual traffic on your WordPress website using Splunk Community Edition – Part 1
Like a good tenant, I tend to keep an eye on the resources that my website uses on the hosting platform that I use. I have hosted with SiteGround since late last year on their basic “Startup” package and I have found them to be great value for money for the feature set that you […]
Selecting O365 in the Digital Age – Part 2 (So we wanna a thingy with a dowaadi-diddy…)
Well, so it seems that finishing this series could take years (literally) …. hmmmm! So, in the last part of this series I had a little bit of a ramble introducing the situation that an organisation that I work for had when pondering the various options around messaging and collaboration tools, and how that decision was […]
Apple iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) and Samsung C34J791 Quad HD 34″ Monitor…
This is a little something that I thought that I would put something out there on – as quite frankly, As I was astonished that getting a monitor to work inexplicably difficult (read on and you will understand that I was only being a mild idiot during the process!). So, a few years ago (I […]
My MacBook Air 2018 (honest) review…
So, just to be upfront and people don’t accuse me of being a total Apple “Fan Boy” – I’m not; over my years working in IT I have learned to become technology agnostic and appreciate all our industry has to offer (for the most part). In my (considerably) younger days I had worked with Banyan […]