Planned outage: Saturday, February 15

I will be bringing brought down my blog server on Saturday to re-organize my server rack in order to fit in a new rack-mounted UPS.

I am not setting a specific time, but hopefully no more than two or three hours sometime in the afternoon. I’ll update this post when the outage is complete. The outage started at 1:00 PM pacific time and completed at approximately 1:50 PM. More details can be found in the rest of this post.

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So much for 99% uptime…

The little server in my basement that runs all my blogs has been down since February 8th. I finally got it back up and running today and, after correcting a few hiccups, the blogs are back up as of February 12th at 10:15 PM Pacific.

What went wrong? And why did it take so long to repair? Well… that’s a bit of an interesting story, but only if you are technically minded. The short, non-technical answer: there was a problem with the storage, and I fixed it by replacing the failing part.

Read on for the longer and more complicated answer…

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Swasticar (Tesla) sales plummet

The world right now seems to be a bit of a mess from my perch here in Canada, what with the ongoing MAGAt dumpster fire south of the border. It sometimes seems like there is no justice, no type of consequence even for the most deliberately toxic behaviours.

But sometimes, not as often as I’d like, there is a small glimmer of justice. Someone occasionally pays a price for their cruelty, arrogance, and corrupt behaviour. This is one of those times…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-far-right-politics-are-tanking-tesla-sales

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Physics and WiFi

I have been completing a few technology upgrades around the house this year. The latest activity is replacing my aging NetGear Orbi quasi-mesh (3rd node was a low-end TP-Link WiFi hub) with something a bit more capable.

The change-over went very smoothly but produced a few ‘old man’ moments as I considered the hardware itself. Size isn’t everything, but sometimes bigger is… if not better, at least necessary.

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Seasonal snowfall and a new comfy chair

We haven’t had as much snow this year here at our home near Castlegar as usual. So it was no real surprise when we got a bit of a dump of the white stuff last Friday. Waking up to a marshmallow world is not entirely a bad thing.

We also finally got that ‘comfy chair’ Irene and I have been wanting to add to my office space. There is a little story behind that as well.

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