It's been another year, and much has happened. Some good, some... not. Yet, as family gathers around, there are many reasons to give thanks. For family, good health, a home to gether in, and food to eat. For work to do, and good deeds to perform to forward civilization. For those who were able to gather, for those who gathered elsewhere across mountain and sea, and the memories of those who can no longer join us. May all of you be blessed, and may all of us appreciate that which we have. For a…
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I can no longer remember which aircraft it specifically was, but if memory serves, there was a helicopter that had such a tendency to rattle that it was often referred to as "a thousand parts flying in loose formation". Which brings me to Linux. Desktop Linux, courtesy of distributions such as Ubuntu, Mint, ElementaryOS, and Pop!OS, has gotten a lot better about making sure updates didn't break everything. On the server side, things can be dicier. Yes, this has to do with the site upgrade. U…
The weekend was spent with family and friends. Also spent a lot of time unfucking things that I had left fallow for far too long - with a reasonable degree of excusability, but I really should have gotten around to it sooner. What next? I think I need to renew my promise of five posts a week. It'll be difficult - I've taken on a couple more daily hell-or-high-water obligations, if not big ones, I'm spending time on music, and maintaining my excercise. In the longer run, I need to figure out…
Have a few things mulling but right now going back and checking over older posts that didn't quite make the translation from Blogger to Wordpress to Ghost unscathed. Fixing embed links, and so forth.…
One of my personal weaknesses is that I tend to get into obsessive ruts - take on a project that interests me, deeply immerse myself in it until I'm satisfied with my level of knowledge and skill, if not polish, then drop it for the next shiny thing that attracts my attention. Daily habit is relatively lacking, and things with slow progress curves requiring months, years of work are also difficult. I also have a tendency to make the perfect the enemy of the good. Knowing this is literally the r…