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FINE, I guess as I download email message 49,000 of 51,658 in my personal Gmail account, I'm no longer allowed to say an...
05/04/2025

FINE, I guess as I download email message 49,000 of 51,658 in my personal Gmail account, I'm no longer allowed to say anything to clients any more. (In my defense, the badge counts stop at 999+ in most things, so, I kind of lost track.)

07/04/2024

1. A Question?
A. Yes.
B. No.

Can I point out that the above is not only the hardest simple things in the WORLD to try to do in HTML. But what's even funnier, is that in sending out content with it today, I've encountered everything from full support for the code that makes that possible, a site that strips out the support after previewing it properly, and a site that just flat refuses to allow it at all.

What that non-support ends up looking like.

1. A Question?
1. Yes.
2. No.

Why, because they refuse to accept the TYPE attribute of the HTML element OL (ordered list). So, should get me the "A. Yes, B. No" that I want.

Why, oh why, does this bug me? Because this has been an HTML standard since the 90s. And you're telling me in the year 2024, with literally nothing better to replace it, it is "unsupported" by some very big names in HTML content generation tools?

Okay, say what you want to about my Demon costume for a SL Angels & Demons themed party, but you've GOT to admit it's a ...
06/15/2024

Okay, say what you want to about my Demon costume for a SL Angels & Demons themed party, but you've GOT to admit it's a pretty solid office IT look!

Why your IT person is like, “mmmm, I don’t think you want me to clean that out in here…”IT spouses, however, are known t...
04/28/2024

Why your IT person is like, “mmmm, I don’t think you want me to clean that out in here…”

IT spouses, however, are known to be like “Upgrade for Food,” so, kitchen table it is.

04/08/2024

Can anyone tell me why we can't get to a standard on port order and layout on televisions?

Because I just burned a solid 15 minutes thinking I had a "good idea" that was a great theory that was failing in ex*****on, just because I was plugging into what I thought was HDMI 1 but was actually HDMI 3, and thankfully switched inputs before deciding to give up.

I get the aesthetic purpose that makes them so hard to get to, in order to hide the cables, but if we can all agree on that, can't we get a universal order, placement, and orientation that we can agree on so that when we're standing on our heads or contorting our bodies into insane positions usually reserved for hot naked yoga, we can at least be sure which port it is and what way we need to turn the cable so that it goes in correctly?

Like, I can do hot yoga, or I properly plug an HDMI cable into the right port. I think it's extremely overly optimistic to believe the majority of people can do both simultaneously.

04/02/2024

Due to weather client support is unavailable at this time. We are currently under a Tornado Warning and Severe Thinderstorm Alert with 80mph winds.

At this time we are without power due to the storm.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

03/11/2024

Watching 20-something’s debate how “dumb” it is that “old people” say WWW in front of web addresses and then totally know nothing about how the internet works is a bit funny.

What’s more hilarious is that this all devolved into a technical discussion of how the internet works in the first place.

The point of WWW, “in the olden days” was that it communicated the fact that anyone could do it.

Got a computer? Pay for internet? Open your web browser, type in this. That’s it, all you had to be able to do.

Seems stupid today, but back then, revolutionary concept. It was basically so easy anyone could do it.

Can you click a mouse? Can you press a few keys on a keyboard? Can you spell words?

You can do it!

Dial your ISP. Point. Click. Type. Hit Enter. Tada!

You have gone to a website and you can find more information out about anything, you can then go to other websites and find out other things. Everything has or was getting a website.

In an age where long distance calls were more than an international consideration but a state-to-state issue, 1800 numbers with live agents (instead of recordings) were the gold standard of big businesses, people waited for catalogues/brochures/pamphlets/books, sent self-addressed stamped envelopes for things, mailed in order forms with checks and waited 6-8 weeks for delivery, and went to libraries to get information, eagerly awaited their new telephone directory each year, and business spent a lot of money and wasted a lot of paper printing consumer information that may never see the light of day before becoming outdated and thrown in a dumpster, the World Wide Web and being minutes away from information instead of hours/days/weeks/months was a revolutionary concept.

And you don’t have to be particularly smart, talented, exceptionally capable, or learn a lot of things before you can do that thing? Holy crap.

Yes, it’s tied to a whole technical concept, one that in terms of consumers they never knew or cared about, except that it meant that they could easily do it.

Three letters, WWW and you can do anything. Find anything. Learn about anything. Buy anything. Connect all around the world.

01/16/2024

I'm just going to be over here, screaming in IT, that I had to install a plugin to The Events Calendar because when you install Event Tickets to The Events Calendar it hides the Price fields for all events, meaning you have to add a ticket option to add a price, which means that you have to be the one selling the tickets to display a price, and cannot use it, natively, to display both hosted events you sell tickets for and events hosted by others, without either A) slapping event price randomly in the description and not getting the benefits of full price display, or B) reselling/co-selling tickets.

And their, The Events Calendar, solution to that was to create a whole plugin to install to unhide the price fields that are hidden with the installation of Event Tickets.

Just to recap, the plugin that manages events, has a plugin to sell tickets, that requires another plugin to allow you to co-display events you sell tickets for and events you want to share with a price but not sell tickets for, with a price.

I'm not a rocket scientist, but wouldn't it have made more sense to just, I don't know, remove the hide price fields part of the Event Tickets plugin?

01/09/2024

*STOP* (and I really cannot stress this enough) Putting your WiFi router on metal shelves, in metal cabinets, on top of metal filing cabinets, on top of server racks/cabinets, washing machines, refrigerators, freezers, microwaves, on or in front of a mirror, metal gun cabinets (gun cabinets in general), metal tables, metal tray tables, etc.

If it has a metal frame (like storage shelving with press board shelves), a metal brace, a metal track, that's fine. Though try to use the top shelf.

But if it is literally made of metal, no WiFi router should live on it.

07/29/2023

Good Morning!
Please accept our apologies for the disruption in the services we provide, and we appreciate your patience as we await restoration of our services so we can resume normal operations.

Due to a massive storm we lost internet at about 4pm Friday, July 28, 2023 and do not yet have an estimated time for restoration of services. At current our ability to live stream and provide normal services has been delayed due to this issue. As soon as we are able to resume normal operations, we will be catching up on those services (like building websites, updating pages, moderating pages, streaming, providing Keen services, etc).

While we do have the ability to tether for cellular data, we are rationing that for critical failures. If your site crashes completely, or you are experiencing issues that prevent you from working at all, and need technical support, we can use cellular data to make that happen.

Typically severe weather related outages, such as yesterdays massive storm, are resolved in 24-48 hours in our area, but in instances of extreme equipment damages or excessive line destruction events, we have experienced outages lasting several days (hence why we are conserving data to ensure we are able to offer continuous critical failure support in case this is a longer duration event).

If we cross the 24 hour mark at 4pm today, July 29, 2023, we will switch to cellular tether long enough to run general Keen maintenance, and will continue to do so each 24-hour period (at 4pm). Again, this is to conserve cellular data and to try to give support workers sufficient time to make repairs and hopefully be back up long before that becomes necessary.

We do not mean to cause alarm or concern, and it is very possible we will be back up to normal operations much sooner than we are budgeting for.

Please feel free to reach out and we look forward to getting back to our regularly scheduled programming soon!

Thanks,

Joseph Arrington and Aeson Knight

06/13/2023

Ya'll, let me tell ya, "in the middle of checking a setting on a client's unstable site" is not a moment you want your web host to have an unrelated oopsies server crash.

Like, I'm (hopefully) an hour and a half away from the presentation of this client's new site and the green light to move forward with changing everything over.

Now is *NOT* the time for what has been limping along to finally decide "today's the day" on the technology equivalent of a "widow maker."

05/04/2023

Hi, Windows, *LOVE* what you are doing with recognizing that you don't always pull the best drivers for everything and **maybe** the user could better decide what to run instead of getting into a never ending loop of you, ya know, overwriting the driver for the version you want and rendering a system unstable and poorly functional.

But can we talk about maybe making this less all or nothing and also allowing users to decide what hardware you do and do not supply drivers for instead of supplying a kill switch that sends a system all in or all out, and does so while completely bombing the system 8nto the stone age of "*meh* you figure it out."

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