I’ve got a few ‘plans’ over the next couple of years where having a cargo trailer would be a benefit. I am at the point where I’m pricing out options and starting to read/watch videos on towing.
This video is extremely helpful and very educational…
But I think I’ve figured out a few other things as well about my wants.
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The world is topsy turvy at the moment. There are a lot of things being done by Trump and Musk that sicken me and frankly should outrage any American worthy of being called a citizen. But if there is one thing I have to pick that angers me the most it is how the U.S. is now treating the Ukraine and Russia.
Apparently the Ukraine is to blame for Russia illegally invading them, destroying Ukrainian cities, and killing tens of thousands of innocents. If I understand correctly, they are guilty of not surrendering their home and land to the Putin dictatorship. Oh, and Putin isn’t the dictator: Zelensky is.
Why is the leader of the U.S. parroting Russian propaganda lies? And how can any ‘peace’ negotiated by this toddler possibly be considered ‘fair’?
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Short version: Telus installed an upgraded network device. First it broke our landline phone, then our inbound network connectivity thereby disconnecting my blogs. I spent hours on the phone with Telus support, and fixed one of those problems myself despite their ‘help’. The phone still didn’t work, then a really good Telus technician came and solved all the problems..
Longer version… continue reading.
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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.
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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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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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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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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I am fussy about my vision. I’ve been wearing glasses ‘full time’ since I was about 12 years old. I have weird eyes and if my glasses aren’t ‘just’ right I get headaches. Well, more headaches than usual.
The local optometrists in Castlegar, Trail, and Nelson don’t have the model of lenses (Zeiss ‘Smartlife’ progressives) that I’ve found work best for me. Measuring for these requires special equipment and training.
So I drove yesterday to Kelowna to get my eye exam and prescription and order my new lenses. That’s an eight hour round trip, and I’ll have to do it again in a couple of weeks when the glasses are ready for fitting. That probably seems a bit excessive, but…
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The news the last couple of days has reported somewhat confusingly on new Chinese AI company called ‘DeepSeek’. I found a fairly clear report on the BBC about what is going on. DeepSeek itself isn’t the really big news, but rather what its use of low-cost processing technology might mean to the industry.
And that implication has cause a massive stock selloff of Nvidia resulting in a 17% loss in stock price for the company- $600 billion dollars in value decrease for that one company in a single day (Monday, Jan 27). That’s the biggest single day dollar-value loss for any company in U.S. stock market history.
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