Thoughts Archive

Scattered thoughts on issues or topics that I think worth sharing. Nothing super important though.

Upgrading to PHP 8.4

Unless someone is running their website on pure HTML only, one must keep his or her eyes and ears open for the potential upgrade of various technologies that their site runs on ...

Upgrading to OpenWrt 24.10

I would have written this post a month earlier but I had to restrain myself, and for a valid reason. I will get to that in a minute but let's see what happened earlier first ...

The Importance of VPN

As much as we love the internet, believe it or not, it is actually a very scary place to be in. Despite the fact that it made our life much more easier, faster and more efficient, it has the potential to cause havoc in our lives, if we are not careful enough ...

Getting Silicone Dust Covers

Just like any other family, I got number of electronic devices at home. If you ever pay close attention to those devices, you will notice that majority of them has wide range of ports for various reasons ...

No More Intel T Series Processor

My fascination around low powered CPU is not something new. Ever since I started realizing that even an old Nokia phone from a decade back has a low powered processor inside, I always wanted to use one of those as my primary CPU of my computer ...

Focusing on Blogging Productivity

At the back-end of this site, I built a little widget that shows the graph of post counts by month of this year and last year ...

Good Bye 2024

Majority of the countries around world already welcomed the new year with celebration. However, those of us who are living in the North American region, we are still waiting for that glorious moment ...

Fatal Plan Crash in South Korea

It is early morning over here in New York City and I just learned that a fatal plane crash took place in South Korea's Muan city ...

Remembering Ustad Zakir Hussain

I just learned that the great Tabla Magician is no more. The legendary tabla player, Zakir Hussain passed away today at the age of seventy three in San Francisco ...

The Graphics Card Dilemma

Ever since I learned about the AV1 encoding format and it's various benefits, I am eager to get my hands on a Graphics card that supports this format ...

The Rumble around WordPress

The software that powers almost half of all the websites on the internet is back again with so many issues to debate over ...

Seeing through the Internet

Although now a days it's not all that popular, I still use RSS Feed reader on my computer and subscribed to as many news based sites as I could ...

Thank You Dr. Akira Endo

Akira Endo is not any household name but he was one of those individuals who left their ever lasting mark into the field of Health Science ...

Structural Update of Database Table

Couple of days back when I was going over the database table of this site, I came across certain issues that was bothering me ...