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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 April 13, 2020

April 13, 2020

We're continuing on the bored, stir-crazy, and physically healthy trend here. We hope that all is well with you and yours. Aside from working from home, and some indoor chores, most of my "spare" time has been given over to further yard work. During the week, I took half a day off. The first hour of that was conveying the dog to her second round of annual shots at the veterinary clinic. The rest involved picking up some veggies and a tray of flowers, then getting the veggies into the raised beds. I started by removing last year's landscape fabric…

Brian Bilbrey March 30, 2020

30 March 2020

As such things go these days, that's not a bad combination. I'm one of about three people going into my office for a few hours one day a week, to manage one part of our "essential" business that requires physical presence. I'm trying to keep the grocery runs to once every two weeks if I can manage it. Just about the time the weather gets nice enough that Marcia could consider going fishing, at least, the stay home order drops. A pretty good thing, frankly, but it's hard for her, I know. The extended family is, to the best of…

Brian Bilbrey March 15, 2020

15 March 2020

Happy Birthday, Alex! The good news is that we already practice social distancing a lot. Hope y'all can manage that, too! Wash your hands a lot, keep the people around you healthy by keeping yourself as isolated as is reasonable and possible. We're both healthy at this time, and we'll do our best to keep it that way! I did get the shopping done today, which took a while, since there were lines. I also roasted coffee. Relaxing: Our condolences to the families and friends of these fallen warriors:

Brian Bilbrey March 3, 2020

3 March 2020

Enough said. Marcia's cataract surgery went off without a hitch, and she is really happy with both her current improved vision and the progress she's making. It's frustrating that she has to sleep with a pirate patch each night, and endure a month of eyedrops, but all realize that compared to progressively worsening functional blindness in one eye, she's a winner. We got out and about this weekend, heading over to Ram's Head On Stage, over in Annapolis, for a lovely matinee show with Zoë Keating. Zoë's music is a joy! We saw her last at the same venue a…