This is the Atwood-Smith family blog. The site began as a way to post family photos to share with distant family members.
As a family we have a tradition of writing Letters to the Editor, so our photo galleries may have to share space with a few diatribes.
Site History
The first site was hosted on free space provided by Media One. The original site actually made a list of “Top 100 Family Web Sites,” probably on the strength of the Maypole Dance pictures. The “Top 100” logo still appears on the Maypole pages.
The site was moved from a self-managed WordPress site to WordPress.com around 2013. I was tired to upgrading software; WordPress updates the hosted sites automatically. I no longer worry about technical web security measures. WordPress tends to prevent me from doing dangerous things.
During that same time I migrated photo collections between several sites. Eventually most of the photos disappeared entirely, due to an unintentional change somewhere in my hosting conglomerate.
In 2025, WordPress overhauled their site design process to make it easier for lazy people like me to understand. In my earlier life I had learned just about every major high level language except (ironically) COBOL. I built pre-CSS web sites and never really learned to use CSS. I’ve jumped on WordPress’ block editing bandwagon and am slowly moving every site of mine to block themes.
Authentication Crypto, and Information Security
My web pages related to information security and cybersecurity were originally posted at http://www.visi.com/crypto, and migrated to http://www.smat.us/crypto a few years later. In the early 2000s I moved it to the Cryptosmith site: www.cryptosmith.com.
Cryptosmith has traditionally been a higher-cost WordPress site with additional features. Now that I’m retired and not interested in managing (or paying for) multiple web sites, I’m moving the posts on my other sites, including smat.us, to the Cryptosmith site.
Smatters 