First, my apologies for the downtime the last couple days. Second, why? Went to access my site and write a post, and nothing, zip. Not even an nginx-based "nothing to load here", no IP ping reply, nothing. So I went to the instance management panel - yes, it was powered on. Local console? Unresponsive. Soft reboot? Nothing. Log files for the instance were showing a series of input/output errors. So I pulled the virtual plug. Annoying - but crap happens. Even more annoying and less likely that…
Data is re-imported but I'll have to upload images. The new instance will have better snapshot and backup capabilities even without me personally downloading the backups to have a separate copy.…
I should have this back in operation soon enough but this compute instance completely hung in a way that rendered it inoperable from the VM console, etc., and so some backend changes as to the nature and location of the VM's will be happening. Not changing back to wordpress or anything silly, this is more a few quirks in how the VDI is managed that frankly are done better in other places even outside of AWS or Azure. Good thing I run those backups, eh? I should be rocking and rolling in time…
Those of my friends who've hung out with me when touring aviation-related sites like the Yorktown know my taste in airplanes is odd. Sure, I love the feisty little F-16, appreciate the sleek beauty of the F-18, and the power and form of the F-15. I've even had models of most of them. Nevertheless, my favorites are quirky. Sure, the P51 Mustang is a beauty, but I'd rather rebuild my modeling collection with an ungainly Vought F4U corsair, the FW-190, or the tubby F6F Hellcat. Going into the je…
SJW's can and will suck the fun out of anything if they can justify it by "raising awareness" - see Owen Benjamin's gag around 24 minutes in on Cultural Appropriation": So yes, suck the fun out of anything... even a day dedicated to practical jokes and clever spoofs like April !st. Which brings us to Reddit. Apparently, and this is utterly serious as far as I can tell, they shut down r/games [https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/b7ubwm/rgames_is_closed_for_april_fools_find_out_why_in/] for…