Something new has happened…
I know I’m late to the game, but the site is now protected by SSL—you can now (and should) use “https://” to connect to this site. The http:// connection still works, and there really isn’t panic that you shouldn’t use that protocol, because if you use the old URL and protocol (that is, “http://stephenmatlock.com”), you’ll just be forwarded to the new protocol (that is, “https://stephenmatlock.com”).
One thing this does for the site is to make logins more secure. Your password is always encrypted (I can’t see it, ever, by the design of WordPress), but this means that now your communications with the site, such as posting comments, will be done using the secure protocol from your computer to the WordPress server.
Thanks for the fantastic customer service at HostGator (my hosting service) for their quick work to set this up. I contacted them due to a 502 “Bad Gateway” error last night, which they cleared immediately. Then they put up the SSL certificate as well.
If you don’t know what any of that means, don’t worry. I don’t either. I’m sometimes good with words, but not so good with technology. Now let me just go check why my VCR is always flashing “12:00” no matter what time it is. Gol-durned contraptions.
lol if you decide you want to understand, tip me a chat and your assigned #GeekGirl will explain 😉
Oh, let’s see you fix the flashing “12:00” first. Gotta prove your bona fides.
lol OK then. But you realize that means you’d have to let a marauder like me in the house… 😉
(At my sister’s house, there is a rule: Nobody tells Aunt Dee something is wrong with the computer until AFTER Thanksgiving Dinner has been eaten. It’s not a bad rule – it has resulted in me being ‘at the table’ instead of ‘in the middle of something’ much more often…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4EyF2H_Tjg
That is perhaps my all-time favorite quote from that movie.
After we get June out of the way, we’ll have to have you over. But honest, things aren’t quite that dire around here. For one, I just put electrical tape over the digital displays that annoy me.