Several years ago I built a server to host a wiki based on the Federated Wiki app and I maintained it as my digital garden. The server was hosted on Digital Ocean and I made the the bad choice of choosing a 32-bit version of the operating system that meant I couldn’t update to the latest versions that required the 64-bit operating system. I intended to migrate but never found the time and yet had been paying a modest fee to keep that server online.
Now that it has been several years since I added anything to that wiki, I decided to take that server offline and I redirected the domain to another server that responds with a simple message. I suspect the origin of requests to that wiki will come from my own sites such as this one. I apologize for creating the dead links but at this time I decided the money spent keeping that server online is better spent on something new.
Three years ago I wrote, Just Looking In The Rear View Mirror, which I think is one of my better essays. Here is a paragraph that I think holds up:
The current obsession with polarization means more interest is in the argument rather than progress. I am not sure either side really wants progress because whenever either one has the ability to make progress disagreements within their ranks prevents it from happening. Polarization is focused on getting one’s way and beating the other and lost is any amount progress that in past times was born out of debate between the two points of view.
The calendar says winter is coming but the temperature say not so soon.
Due to the lack of rain, the trees have been under much more stress this year, and therefore the fall colors are not as good. This is the best color in our condominium this year.
I’ve written before that I am using a new RSS app called Birchfeed because I really like its keyboard shortcuts in the web app. The developer continues adding new features, and today it added a fast way to clear out unread messages. It provides a visualization of the age of articles and an easy way to mark them as read.
The United States is in no way a Christian nation. The religion of the United States is capitalism and its deity is itself. Money is the idol.
We can’t have nice things in the United States because there will always be somebody who exploits them for their own gain. Spam has ruined email, phone calls (telemarketing) and now text messaging. The number of political text messages I am receiving is exhausting, so I have created a new mode on my Pixel 10 so that only messages and calls from my starred contacts come through.
Wouter Groeneveld aptly writes of the same frustration I have had in obtaining human support from Xfinity. My prediction is that soon we will be charged premium prices for human interactions, which will be on top of the processing fees we pay for nearly all electronic transactions. Imagine Xfinity providing a yearly subscription service, which they might even call Xfinity Prime, that provides a 1-800 number to call and to which I provide my member number for the privilege of waiting on hold for an hour to talk with a person.
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The creek has run dry. This is Pebble Creek after about a month of no rain.
