Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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The great divide
My wife and I “volunteered” (we might have been under the influence of a few cocktails at the time so the question of consent comes into play here) to help teach a faith and sexuality class at our church. All kidding aside about whether we were taken advantage of at a time of weakness, I…
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House Cleaning
The house cleaning of the blog continues. I finally went back and fixed the display issues that cropped up in one of my past WordPress upgrades having to do with the display of Latin-1 characters from a UTF-8 database. Followed these instructions and it seems to have worked like a charm. I also went through…
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Neil’s mushroom hunters
Love Neil Gaiman and love collaborations with his wife even more.
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Reboot
I am going to attempt to keep better track of the books I have read with quick posts here. These won’t be full reviews per se, but rather simply a note (perhaps just to myself) that I finished it and a few of the things I am taking away. The idea is that a year…
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Which call?
Listened to the most recent episode of Making Sense on the way into work today. I continue to be fascinated with the guests that Sam Harris finds. A few things that stuck with me: The connection between poetry and good thinking. I am not an expert in poetry, but I do find myself more attracted…
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Safe!
Moving to Lightsail is already paying dividends. One of the things on my wish list for a while now has been to add a SSL cert to my blog. This is a little for the geek factor / knowing how it works, but also since I know search engines give some extra juice to sites…
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A little more memory
After deactivating all plugins and finding the log files, I determined that the nano instance of Lightsail is just too small to run the Bitnami WordPress image on. I just upgraded to the next largest size that has 1GB of RAM so we’ll see if that solves the database connection / crash errors that have…
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The wonder of it all
I was listening to the most recent episode of The Portal podcast today. The Portal is a project by Eric Weinstein who works for Peter Thiel and is the brother of Bret Weinstein of Evergreen College fame (at least until I heard this podcast…). I am not sure I get what Eric is trying to…
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Pardon the Interuption
Update: well that was a brief respite. Seem to be having some database connection errors so back to trying to figure this out. The blog has been a bit wonky for the last few weeks since I moved to Amazon. I tried out the basic components and seemed to have some success, but saw what…