I'm Milton Lai, a Sydney based software engineer, photographer and dancer.

DNS hijacking has a few different definitions. I’ll refer to mine as DNS hijacking by negligence. This is when you might have a DNS entry that links to an IP or a hostname that no longer is active (dangling) or has changed, and a hijacker essentially takes it over. It does mean that you may have a subdomain hosted (with your branding / etc), but the content is not yours. This is ultimately caused by you, but a hijacker also does their bit.

Wordpress… what a pain! I’ve been neglecting my blog for quite a while, and seemingly spent way too long trying to keep it up. As of late, every month or so, the LightSail instance on AWS running my blog (and several others) just wants to die. The database keeps corrupting (with so much spam comments), the admin panel is unbearably slow, and all while it costs me around $12 AUD per month to keep running.

Yearly update! What a year of not very much!

Haha! I’m getting really good at not blogging for a whole year! In doing a summary, it does feel like, overall, not much has changed too much, which is excellent! There are lots of little things that are absolutely wonderful, but too little to write about (or we’d be here forever). Maybe I should write about them out of the normal yearly structure…

Another year with little posting! It’s been terribly busy and of course, setting goals for this year, means I might jump back on the bandwagon on blogging, but let’s start with a year in review for 2018.

2017 flew by with 0 posts! Well I turned 30, which was a small deal. I ended up hiking the Six Foot Track, just to get away from it all. It was a gorgeous 3 days.