This is a week that perfectly fits under "improved user expereience," aka "it's a feature, not a bug." I cannot go into details, but the short version is that the week was supposed to start with a server migration, and then go on from there. As it turned out, the week was the server migration, struggling to find time to get other things that needed to be done while assisting the people actually responsible for said migration in troubleshooting, etc. Filed under things that did not work - the m…
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Fine so far, but we're not out yet. We are going to have an interesting next couple days.…
Just a few odds and ends for the day. First - Corb Lund Crossing over from purely music to a bit of history, the frankly incredible tale of Sgt York. For those interested in engineering geekery, a long-ish, but well put together video on rocket motor designs.…
First of all, posting has been sparse, and not up to what I promised. I'm fixing that. First - Nick Cole reposts and expands his hit blog post on how CTRL-ALT-REVOLT was banned by his publisher [https://www.nickcolebooks.com/the-ctrl-alt-revolt-controversy/], despite being a successful and well-selling author. On a related note, Larry Correia is on mewe after being banned from facebook again [http://monsterhunternation.com/2019/08/19/facebook-gulag-day-3-book-bomb-tomorrow-mewe-is-nicer-than-e…
When it's time for an old friend to leave, there are few things more appropriate than Kipling. FOUR-FEET (from "The Woman In His Life") I have done mostly what most men do, And pushed it out of my mind; But I can't forget, if I wanted to, Four-Feet trotting behind. Day after day, the whole day through— Wherever my road inclined— Four-Feet said, "I am coming with you!" And trotted along behind. Now I must go by some other round— Which I shall never find— Somewhere that does not carry the s…