BurningbirdWe have sewer problems where we’re at because Lake Saint Louis force main dumps into our O’Fallon gravity main directly in front of our neighbors. The line is overwhelmed, and gasses build up. I don’t feel a high degree of confidence when I see that the ‘tool’ they’re using to collect gases for testing is […]
This is my birthday gift from Roomie. Yes, it is as big as it looks. Over five feet tall. The choice of an elephant is because of my long interest in elephants and the Ringling Brothers court case…not as the Republican symbol. He didn’t give it to me to use as a punching bag. The […]
Learning Node, 2nd Edition is now in production and should be hitting the streets within a few weeks. We had a bit of excitement when Node 6.0 was rolled out, just as we entered production. However, this edition of the book was specifically designed to accommodate Node’s rather energetic release schedule, and the book survived […]
Linode, the company that provides the server I use for my sites has been under constant DoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks for days. Right at this moment, I can access my site and the Linode manager, but the London servers are supposedly all down. Tomorrow, the Dallas servers may get hit, again. We haven’t heard why there’s […]
Thankfully, the cold front dipped and we didn’t get all the expected rain last night. Because we had a breather, the load in the sewer system has gone down enough so we can use our plumbing again. Working toilet…hot shower. Seems so mundane, but no pretty jewel or cool electronic gadget is as nice as […]