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Rescued kitten Stix, 9 months after being found in the gutter with a broken pelvis

My wife, Kerry, went down to California last thanksgiving for a brief trip with her sister Sandy. They were driving along in Fountain Valley with my niece and spotted a kitten lying in the gutter. As they approached her she hauled herself out of the gutter in a badly injured way. They immediately stopped and tried to […]

August 30, 2011 | Friends & Family, Fun, Introspection | No comments

I've reversed comment order

The comment thread is getting a little long on this page and the oldest comment was first. I enabled threaded comments a few weeks ago and today decided to reverse comment order with newest first because it seems to work a little better with threaded comments, especially long threads.

July 30, 2011 | Introspection | No comments

Best Light Bulbs for all night coding

I went down to walmart late last night in frustration because the power saving bulbs I had in my main light with a dimmer weren’t working. So I switched them (two bulbs) to GE Reveal 71367’s (not an affiliate link), the most expensive bulb I could find at $4.50 each and one of the few […]

June 30, 2011 | Introspection, Randomness | No comments

Back blogging

After a 1 year without feeling the need to hold forth on issues I know very little about, I’m back blogging. The spammers got hold of my blog and I deleted thousands of garbage comments that managed to get through my spam filter. If I accidentally deleted yours or you’re unable to post a comment […]

May 25, 2011 | Introspection | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.