I read a couple of papers dealing with Ordovician period geology and paleontology.

Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring during the Ordovician, Andrew G Tomkins, Erin L Martin, Peter A Cawood, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 646 (2024)118991

Understanding the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): Influences of paleogeography, paleoclimate, or paleoecology?, Thomas Servais, David A.T. Harper, Jun Li, Axel Munnecke, Alan W Owen, Peter M Sheehan, GSA Today, April/May 2009

A few months ago, I started monitoring my network with Smokeping, more about it later.

I’d also never bothered to check the speed of powerline ethernet. It “feels faster” than WiFi, so I was happy.

When I did my last Velop upgrade to OpenWrt, I did the physical manipulation at my home office desk using the powerline ethernet for various phases of the install.

Github is owned by Microsoft. They have embraced it. They could get a wild hair any old time, then extend and extinguish Github use by non-Windows machines.

I have an old web page here on my personal web site. It’s actually my single most popular page.

I write specifically about my scripting FTP file transfers web page. Go take a look, then come back for some navel gazing about it!

I got a second Velop WHW03 V1 running OpenWrt

This project went better than my first time around, where I had to fiddle a lot to get the third radio working.

Edit 2025-05-04 Third and final OpenWrt conversion.

Fortunes from the local strip mall chinese/thai joint.

First quarter calendar 2025 lottery winnings summary!

$62 expenditure, $8 winnings!

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Bought a “Rechargeable Bird Table Lamp” from Amazon. These are possibly the worst instructions I’ve ever read.

The Arizona Desert Museum, in the vicinity of Tucson, AZ is well worth a visit.