Ron Helwig

Taking control of my digital life

Broke some stuff

- Posted in D&D by

On Monday I was ending work when I tripped over a pallet in the warehouse. That was quite a shock and there was a good amount of blood. My knees took a hit, with my left knee getting a silver dollar sized bloody scrape. I got this nice gash in my left eyebrow, which was where all the blood was coming from. And my arms got pretty messed up. I didn't think it was too bad though, so I just went [...]

Quit LinkedIn

- Posted in Personal by

I just closed my LinkedIn account. I haven't been using it for looking for work and I don't intend to in the future. Their silly attempt to try to be a social network was a bad idea to begin with. I know there's a few people who I'll lose connection with, but that's life. I've owned and used this URL for around 25 years now. I've always intended this as the canonical place to find me, and this is [...]

Resetting things

- Posted in Misc by

My old webhost has been ratcheting up the cost, so I figured it was about time to switch to something cheaper. I'm no longer trying to provide web development or related services, so I just need a basic setup. In addition, I've been wanting to convert more of my economic life to using freedom money, AKA cryptocurrency. So I looked for a web host that accepts it for payment. Thankfully the domain [...]