Graham's How-To Guides

Here are some tips on preserving your clothes! Ways to make the wash easier on the clothes, and increase the number of wears one can get between washes. [3 minutes]

Here are some key ingredients for full-length improvised plays known as Narrative Improv. Providing tips on story structure, normalcy, the protagonist, consequences and clarity. [4 minutes]

Here are some easy ways to reduce the clutter at home by means of an "Outbox". It's a box for things that you think you might not need, that you then periodically empty. [4 minutes]

My review and summary of the The Blue Zones: Lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest. The best advice is having strong relationships and purpose in life. [5 minutes]

My summary of the book Time Management for System Administrators. Good advice for people who otherwise get interrupted a lot to make time for project work. Works for SRE and DevOps too. [5 minutes]

Presenting a comparison a wide range of free software for local file synchronization. In my case, for synchronization between a PC and an external hard drive. [5 minutes]

In which I show how to optimize Wordpress on Apache to handle a reasonable continuous load on a tiny free tier virtual machines, with only standard Ubuntu packages. [6 minutes]

This is how I got my waterproof jacket to smell fresh without losing the waterproofing, after it was infused with campfire smoke on the Cape Point overnight trail. [2 minutes]

This is my solution to make Apache HTTP Server log the actual remote client IP address from behind the Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), with a little help from SetEnvIf. [2 minutes]