Try It Now, They Said
New hosting, fewer bumps. At least, that’s the theory. There may be some minor behind-the-scenes tinkering left to do as the hosting changes propagate, but the bulk of the unpleasantness is now behind us.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Hurray! Was getting worried there.
With the previous hosting, the blog was down 26 times in the 24 hours before migrating to the new service. So I’m rather glad that’s behind us.
It brought back my Typepad twitch.
As I said in the previous thread, the SSL is now active and you should see a tiny padlock in the left of the address bar. If you can’t see it, you may need to clear your browser cache.
One’s got to wonder how Bluehost managed to screw up so badly.
Space Out competition.
Via Dicentra: “I found out this guy at work is a Conservative, what’s surprising is the sudden level of hatred I have for this Man I used to respect”
But will her surprise lead her self-reflection and a realization that she has serious character defects? Possible but unlikely.
When moving from Typepad, Bluehost was recommended as a hosting provider by WordPress, hence my using them. But I recently discovered that their reputation is not great and continues to go downhill.
Or when your politics looks a lot like a mental illness.
Apparently there’s all kinds of fuckery going on with WordPress involving the original founder.
He refuses to suffer in silence.
Maybe they had a you-scratch-my-back, I’ll-scratch-your-back relationship whereby service providers were recommended based on friendship and payola rather than quality.
Certainly wasn’t quality.
[ Stares intently at DNS propagation map, curses the French. ]
Self-awareness and self-reflection are evidently not part of her armamentarium.
Does he have a five year-old do his makeup?
Never found a DNS propagation map necessary.
[ Awards points for daring use of armamentarium. ]
It’s not necessary. I’ll be notified when it’s done. I was just… curious.
Hey, I need something to distract me from you heathens.
I know, right? “Sweetie, this is a you problem. Maybe you need to reevaluate your understanding of what conservatives are.”
But rather than take this as a data point, she’ll instead go with her gut and see him as a secret Nazi who’s been deceiving her all along that he was a good guy.
The polar regions, from Dragon capsule.
Follow Dragon in real time.
Get them while they’re young.
A master-class-level April Fools Day prank.
So the map wasn’t related to cursing the French?
This has got to peak some people, right? A few more people seeing the absurdity for what it is? Please?
Curses. Rumbled.
Or, when three-year-olds fail to pretend.
The trials of puppeteering.
It’s a muppet. He’s not getting dragged around near as much a he deserves.
Hung out with an old friend yesterday. Previously, if Trump’s name came up, he would bellow “I hate Trump” but now he admitted he was tricked. Not yet a conservative but we were actually able to talk about economics and illegal immigration for the first time. Good times.
[ Fetches binoculars, glares across English Channel. ]
Adult make believe is too advanced for toddlers.
Heh. Well, yes, quite.
Chocolate dinosaur robots I can cope with. “Non-binary” three-year-olds with fabulist pronouns is asking a bit much, I think.
toddlers: to quote Pink Floyd “leave them kids alone”
We seem to be running out of fresh reasons to hate the French.
Any other good targets out there?
I was assuming you were getting DDoSed.
No doubt that’s not all he does with five-year-olds.
Belgians are French with no fashion sense.
Seems a bit much for the return.
Maybe they had a you-scratch-my-back, I’ll-scratch-your-back relationship whereby service providers were recommended based on friendship and payola rather than quality.
Certainly wasn’t quality.
One of my long ago fears back when I was responsible for keeping our various third party tools synchronized…we only had about 30-40 at the time on three different platforms, only three if you count the various flavors of linux as just one…was how insanely complex the business was becoming. The dependencies, the probabilities, upgrades, the obsolescence, the “undocumented…features”, etc. With what has happened in the couple of decades since, I’m kind of amazed that anything still works. Now with the AI tools available to do both good and evil, I can see how the good might deteriorate while the evil, which really has the simpler job, becomes more powerful.
I think about this every time a previously reliable app or other piece of software becomes a problem. For example just this week Apple Carplay, which has performed generally flawlessly such that I don’t think about it much, has been popping up on my phone whenever I get in or even near my wife’s new car. We’ve had that car for about 9 months now and this hasn’t happened before. We haven’t even been using Carplay since we got back from Florida three weeks ago. That’s just a recent example. A couple of far more simple apps have now been updated and behave differently, per design I am sure but I liked the app as it was before. I have no use for the newer features, etc. It’s a bit frustrating when something you only use about once every couple of months now works differently.
Incoming.
I blame this largely on MBAs, the sea-gulls of corporate management.
“As a native son of New York City, I find this distrust of the dead to be bigoted and unwarranted. The dead have formed an important voting bloc in New York City and other urban centers for decades…”
The more mainstream software gets, the more tyros there are in it making the same rookie mistakes decade after decade. Software engineering is still a fundamentally immature discipline.
“Don’t touch my daughter.”
“YOU’RE RACIST!!!!!”
Zero self-awareness.
Just faux cleverness and trying to pull Clintonesque lawyer double talk – “trans”women are women therefore there are no men in women’s sports. Checkmate, transphobe, etc. etc.
Or, Chronic Fantasist Whose Identity Is A Deception Is, During Interviews, Prone To Dishonesty.
And Miss Chase Strangio, our moustachioed, cross-dressing woman, has previously insisted that acknowledgement of physical reality – terms such as “anatomically male,” “male genitals,” etc – are “both factually wrong and dangerous.” Though the precise nature of this danger remained oddly unclear.
However, this same moustachioed woman claims to be “systemically oppressed” by the fact that she occasionally receives mail using her original, i.e., female, name, the mere sight of which supposedly renders her traumatised and “afraid to check my mail,” thereby resulting in unpaid bills and a poor credit score.
So maybe that’s what she means.
The psychological abuse of children is, it seems, quite easy.
Oh, and regarding Miss Strangio, this seems apposite.
Or bluff called.
Previously and very much related – the contortions and outright lies of the publication laughingly referred to as Scientific American.
As I said in the subsequent thread:
This, then, is wokeness. This is what it means.
Which is why God invented automated bill pay and electronic invoices, which you can set up with nearly every utility or other service provider on the planet.