Mark
August 18, 2023
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Hi
Welcome to my Secret Diary of a Geek home page. Here you will find lots of geeky information, so please have a browse around. I am a web and application developer, and published author.
If you are looking for something a bit less technical you might be interested in reading some of my fiction, but only if you are old enough.
Blog
Having worked in IT for several decades I have a few things to say. Here you will find the good, bad and ugly of the tech world. Often technical, sometimes personal, and hopefully interesting.
Please enjoy and contact me if you have any comments.
Don’t do this to your AIO
Using an AIO is the easiest way to get into water cooling, but there is a right way … and a very wrong way.
The ‘Worst Case of 2019’ is great!
I built a PC in the ‘Worst Case of 2019’ … and I liked it so much I did another one.
Exchange Rate feed from RBA
I have made changes to the Exchange Rates function to include the RBA as a FrontAccounting Exchange Rate provider.
Ubuntu 20.04 gksu replacement
After upgrading Ubuntu to 20.04, I could not run GUIs as root and gksu is gone. This is how I fixed that.
Amazon Lightsail with CloudWatch Monitoring
I’m running several Amazon Lightsail instances as WordPress servers, which has been very successful, however I have been unable to monitor them effectively – until …
Need help? Let me take care of your IT issues.
Fiction
Just for fun I have been writing fiction.
Please enjoy and contact me if you have any comments.
The Hottest Girl in Year 9
They see us coming as they are standing by their lockers. They turn to flee, but Bec, Suze and Trace are approaching from the other end of the corridor blocking their path.
Where did all the hippies go?
The Man closes the door firmly behind him not wanting us to be disturbed, though the staff know better than to interrupt. He approaches me …
My Life Is Over!
I stare at the horrid thing as it just sits there, on the end of bed, taunting me. Hugging my knees tighter into my chest, I feel my tears running down my legs.
How could I have been so stupid?!