I haven't posted much here in 2016. When the year began I figured I would be because I thought having a Chromebox connected to the TV in the living room would make it so much more convenient and by virtue of the convenience I'd spend more time here on LJ. That obviously is not what happened. In truth what the Chromebox made more convenient is ( Read more... )

As some of you know most of my UPSes[1] have been flaking out for the last several months. The one that serves as UPS and powerstrip. for the machine I do most of my internet stuff on, has completely flipped out today. It won't even let me power anything on and doesn't look like it's going to recover as it's been about 8 hours already. That means I ( Read more... )

I'm not going to be near the computer very much this week. I'll be checking my gmail account every other day if all goes well. I will be absolutely unreachable by phone this week.