Eclipse

I saw an article about an eclipse that happened a few days ago. It was only really visible in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, so I wasn’t able to see it. I was fortunate enough to be able to see a total eclipse in the summer of 2017 and managed to get a pretty

Blogging and Negativity

I’ve been reading or watching a lot of blogs lately. I’m pretty new to this whole blogging thing, and I’m trying to figure out how to do it. I’ve noticed that some of the more popular blogs or YouTube channels, the ones with a ton of followers, tend to post a lot of negative stuff.

Carnival Glory Accident

A few weeks ago I booked a cruise on Carnival Glory for my 10th anniversary. I’m hoping they can get the ship repaired before our sailing. It took some damage when it made contact with Carnival Legend when it was docking in Cozumel a couple of days ago. From the pictures I’ve seen in the

Science!

When I was a kid my mom worked at the community college setting up experiments for the chemistry classes while she studied to be a medical laboratory technician. She’d occasionally let me hang out with her while she was working. I’m sure I annoyed the crap out of her and everyone else around, but it

Yak Shaving

Sometimes when you set out to accomplish a task, a series of unrelated tasks get in the way and demand to be finished before you can get back to what you originally wanted to do. In the IT world, this is called “yak shaving”. The term dates back some 20 years or so and refers

Updates

I made a few minor updates to the site tonight but no one is likely to see the difference. When I settled in to add some content, I noticed that Chrome indicated that the site was “not secure”. It seems that I somehow screwed up the configuration, and the site wasn’t defaulting to use an