Keeping in touch
I made a personal commitment to do a better job keeping in touch with my family after my medical challenges over the Christmas season. The results of this effort have, in general terms, been a bit of a mixed bag.
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The package has an ominous aura
I buy a lot of stuff via Amazon. Lots of it is household goods like cleaners and the like. Most of it, however, amounts to my attempt at solutions to problems that arguably didn’t need to be solved. Things that bother me, don’t quite work right, or simply could be easier become an Amazon order. Amazon has almost everything, so a bolt, gadget, or device suitable to the task in some way is likely to be there somewhere.
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My trike’s baby book!
I finally received the book from the installer of my bike’s trike conversion. Only three months late, give or take. I’m picking on Richard at Pair-a-dice trikes a bit, here: I know he’s been extremely busy, and my regular “where is my book” calls were likely no help in that regard.
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Masters of the Universe- not too bad looking
I saw the trailer for the Masters of the Universe reboot movie. I was expecting crappy schlock, but it looks like prime grade stuff.
My diagnosis: Hypomania
I had an “event” on December 15. Simplistically speaking, I spent about five or six hours throwing things, shouting swear words, and generally being obnoxious. Out of this was born about three (3) weeks in the hospital and two (2) diagnoses.
(more…)Test logins
I've created this and invited a few folks to test Facebook login. My hope is that it works and all previous login modes still function
Making WordPress posts quick and easy… ish
I’m just testing some ideas for quickly creating small Wordpress posts. This one was drafted using Siri, AirPods, iOS Notes, and was mostly written by hand. My plan is to…
Prodigious thoughts
<< this is a draft prodigious thought >>
<< I want to turn this into a category later at some point e.g.:”Prodigious Thoughts” or “Prodigy” or “Deep Thoughts” >>
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Duuuuummmbbb
I posted earlier about my attempts to improve my site rendering speed by upgrading my blog server’s RAM. As I noted in that post, it didn’t seem like the changes made much if any difference to the rendering speed in the Safari browser.
After much experimentation, I can hereby clarify/correct all of my previous observations and guesses. The rendering speed problem is not related to my server’s RAM nor is it the fault of the Safari web browser. Instead, my site renders slowly for me because I am logged in as the WordPress administrator for the site.
Boy, do I feel dumb now. Allow me to explain in order to hopefully prevent you from feeling dumb as well.
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Blog web server upgrade
I have completed a simple upgrade to the little box that serves my blogs. I have increased its RAM from 16 gigabytes to 64 gigabytes.
I had observed some page loading slow-downs under some conditions recently. My quick review gave me the idea that some of the blogs processes might be a bit starved for memory. Too much of the system’s work seemed to be regularly swapped to virtual memory swap (SSD), a condition generally to be avoided.
The change in memory capacity and process configuration seems to have made the blogs a bit more responsive. However, it appears that most of the slow rendering I’ve noted relates more to Safari behaviour with the content of the site than with any shortcomings of my server hardware.
I’ve included some more detail below the ‘Read More’ fold for those who are interested.
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