Tag Archives: Blogging

Are Blogs Dying?

Posted on 2025-01-27 by jcs

Even though he seldom posts Emacs videos anymore, I still faithfully follow Mike Zamansky’s blog. His latest post tells us that he’s rebooting his blog. That’s because he got a new tablet and thought that he might be able to … Continue reading →

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A Late Nonpost

Posted on 2024-12-02 by jcs

Sorry for the late post today. To make things worse, it’s not a real post. Today we had a followup appointment for our aforementioned health emergency. It involved a bit of outpatient surgery and since we arrived at the hospital … Continue reading →

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Sorry, No Posts Yesterday Or Today

Posted on 2024-11-20 by jcs

The Irreal bunker is in the midst of a family health emergency and I haven’t had time to prepare the usual drivel for your amusement. Everything seems to be settling down so I’m hopeful that the bunker and the Irreal … Continue reading →

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The Blogosphere Is Dying(?)

Posted on 2024-11-03 by jcs

As a nice contraposition to yesterday’s post on how the blogosphere is the only remaining vibrant part of that segment of the Internet dedicated to what could loosely be called “social media”, Venkatesh Rao opines that the blogosphere is dying. … Continue reading →

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The Ascendance Of The Blogosphere

Posted on 2024-11-02 by jcs

The Guardian has an interesting article on longtime blogger Dave Winer and posits that the blogosphere is blooming while the rest of the Internet is wilting. By “the rest of the Internet” they actually mean social media. In a sense, … Continue reading →

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Milton After Action Report

Posted on 2024-10-12 by jcs

Here I am. We just got power back today at 15:19. We did have broadband—although the signal was weak—but I didn’t have enough power on my laptop to compose a reasonable post. As you might imagine, everyone we know in … Continue reading →

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Milton Outage Alert

Posted on 2024-10-08 by jcs

Sigh. This is yet another warning of an impending Irreal outage due to a hurricane. This time it’s Milton, which intensified very rapidly into a Cat 5 hurricane. There are two very bad pieces of news for the Irreal Bunker. … Continue reading →

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After Action Report: Helene

Posted on 2024-09-27 by jcs

Just a quick note to let you know what’s happening at the Irreal bunker. We got through the passage of Helene without mishap but just as the storm had moved to the North of us and we were out of … Continue reading →

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Outage Alert

Posted on 2024-08-03 by jcs

Just a heads up about a pending weather threat to the Irreal bunker. There is currently a tropical depression over the West end of Cuba. The forecast calls for this to become Tropical Storm Debby and come up the West … Continue reading →

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Booster Shots and Other Reasons for Not Doing Any Work

Posted on 2021-12-12 by jcs

Last Friday I got my COVID-19 booster shot. Here in Tampa, at least, that was easy. You can get them anywhere with an even tenuous link to the healthcare industry. As happened with my second shot, I woke up the … Continue reading →

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