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Brian Bilbrey September 18, 2025

18 September 2025

An Apology Y'all. I seriously intended to do more updates this year. As in, many more updates. But for reasons that will become slightly clearer, there's been neither the time nor energy for keeping up appearances. Several of you have dropped me an email or some other form of communication to check in, and I appreciate that from the bottom of my heart. Since May of 2025, Marcia's been beset by several sequential significant health challenges. If she chooses to do so at some future date, there may be more details here or on her site. While things are stable…

Brian Bilbrey April 20, 2020

20 April 2020

Note - this is a discussion and solution for a technical problem for a Wordpress instance that uses an SSL certificate signed by a non-public CA. If you don't care about this sort of thing, please move your eyes down to the next section. The error text that I saw in the new-to-me Site Health page following upgrading to WordPress 5.4: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate The error above was generated because WordPress/PHP couldn't verify the site certificate. When this is broken, the impact can be significant on a WordPress instance. Some features…

Brian Bilbrey March 24, 2019

24 March 2019

My friend Mark Camack died this last week, after a battle with throat cancer. We've been in the exchange holiday cards / biannual phone call place for the last couple of decades, but I'd still have jumped up and headed out if he needed help. I didn't hear about this until his wife Bonnie got in touch, the other day. My heart goes out to Bonnie and their extended families. Rest in peace, my friend. The big news is that I migrated all of the personal sites I manage from an old server to a new server. Not super-exciting from…

Brian Bilbrey March 7, 2017

7 Feb 2017

Wow. Am I a slacker, or what? I've been really busy. Work is keeping me on my toes, and (wonderfully), we're finally cooking with gas! We got a KitchenAid Dual Fuel range - a natural gas range (that could be converted to LP if needed) with two electric ovens. Yay! Getting the range was Marcia's birthday present, and she got the gasfitter to run the line for Valentine's Day. No massacres yet! * * * On the professional front, I'm working on the options for extending my Red Hat Certified Engineer status. I'm probably going down the automation path, with…

Brian Bilbrey December 21, 2015

21 Dec 2015

A day late, and a vacation dollar short. Yep, vacation. I'm "off work" for the next two weeks, which means that I only keep an eye on email, and respond if SMS messages flow my way. But for the purposes of day-to-day operations, I'm offline. Yay! * * * In other good news, no vomiting in more than a week, so I've got that going for me. * * * Please note that policy requires the new disclaimer in the footer of this site. So noted. * * * The weekend flew by with assorted home-maintenance chores. They were mostly…