Nov 30, 2024

The time has come to update the site with a new social media account, I have moved from X (Twitter) to Bluesky. Why the move you might wonder? Well like many people I have seen the engagement at Twitter degenerate over the years and since Elon Musk bought the place

May 1, 2024

I started talking about my family's trip to Los Angeles to take a Mexican Riviera cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line with a short review of the La Quinta Inn && Suites by Wyndham LAX but today I wanted to talk about how we spent our extra day in Los Angeles

Apr 28, 2024

This website has had many different iterations over the years. Plain HTML, Blogger, WordPress, ClassicPress and now most recently Astro. When I moved this site to Astro I took the path of least resistence and started hosting it on Cloudflare Pages. Over time it became apparent that the Cloudflare Pro

Apr 27, 2024

I have been a customer of Cloudflare in some shape or form since 2011. I started like most do using the free plan that they offer. I have been a Pro customer since at least 2016, possibly longer but that is as far back as I could look up invoices.

Feb 28, 2024

My family and I recently travelled to Los Angeles to take a Mexican Riviera cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line. We had a great time and I will write more about our trip but I thought I would start with our pre-cruise hotel, the [La Quinta Inn && Suites by Wyndham

Feb 11, 2024

Moving to Astro and hosting my website using GitHub and Cloudflare pages meant that I no longer have easy access to a graphical interface, like WordPress, to add and edit new posts on the website. It means I have to do most of my writing on my main computer where

Dec 10, 2023

I am working on a website redo for a website I run making plans to move it from ClassicPress/WordPress to Astro but that website has a significantly more posts and will be using server side rendering. I was having some issues with routing, mainly the issue is the posts structure

Nov 26, 2023

One of the things I really like about Astro is the options you get. Astro is a fantastic static site generator (SSG), which is what I use here, but it also provides you with the ability to run using server side rendering which is more like a traditional server model

Nov 1, 2023

At one time the whole point of creating a blog was to engage with your readers in discussion in the comments section. Times have changed. Now comment sections have turned into giant dung heaps of vitriol. One only needs to look at the discussion that takes place on the majority

Oct 30, 2023

One of the things that has been a learning curve for me with this website rebuild is the switch to using Markdown. I have been using HTML since 1995 and to be honest it has been a bit of a challange to not write posts using HTML. In WordPress/ClassicPress I