Category: Ruminations

Moving host

Over the past several months, probably more than a year, I have had intermittent problems with my blogs becoming inaccessible. Mostly I’ve been aware of that because Jetpack has been monitoring and reporting. The outages have generally been brief, though some have lasted hours and even overnight in one case. Sometimes there was a message indicating that the database over...

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COVID-19 irony

The dreadful irony is that US funding intended to prepare science for a more rapid and effective response to a viral pandemic may have contributed to the emergence of a pandemic to which the US response has been notably ineffective.

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Oops! That was awkward

That had me worried for a while. I thought for a moment I might have lost two complete blogs, this one and our travel blog, but luckily I was able to restore from backups and had an offline copy of the post that was recent enough not to have been backed up. It’s all back and working with some lessons...

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MacOS Catalina Photos weirdness

When Apple dropped Aperture I switched to Adobe Lightroom for processing and managing photographs. One benefit is that Lightroom works with files stored in standard Finder locations rather than buried in a proprietary database. A disadvantage is that many MacOS applications, especially those from Apple, do not recognise and access images other than those from Photos, the Apple application. That...

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Lest we remember?

It’s that time of year again when Australians engage in our annual culture war about the war we don’t admit happened. For many, national identity is tied to a foundation myth associated with a war in which we invaded a peninsula on the other side of the world. We know little or nothing about the war for possession on our...

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My bucket overflowed

I wrote recently about completing my bucket list generated by Majella last year. The final item had presented a challenge because it required getting at least one of my children to a movie with me. A plea for help had attracted responses from all three and resulted in a trip to see the most recent Jurassic World release with Jane,...

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I broke a blog and had to fix it

Over the past couple of months I’ve done some tinkering with my blogs for various reasons. Part of that involved condensing the installations of my two blogs, here at DrAlb and our travel blog at On the road again, into a single database. I tried using a WordPress network installation and multiple installations using Installatron in a single blog but...

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