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Its taken a while with recent distractions, but I finally managed to finishing editing for content length the latest gaming video of our Rise of the Runelords game. Still need to do another pass for graphic additions and perhaps sound, but almost there. As a result though, today’s post was running a bit late – I wanted to get the computer rendering before I got distracted, so that I could work on the final steps tomorrow and actually publish.
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So yesterday I posted that my recent FreeNAS rebuild had affected the site, and discouraged or stopped the traffic to the site. From my testing, I was receiving 404 (not found) errors on all links, and the pictures and attachments were broken. This was resulting in web crawlers being unable to find and catalog content, which in turn meant no traffic. After digging into it, I found out that fundamentally I just didn’t finish the migration of the site. There were two pieces I was unaware of, that were causing the impact. The first was a default module within Apache…
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Perhaps I am overly obsessive, but since I am newer blogger, I tend to check my daily stats with some regularity. More from a sense of small accomplishment, rather than any expectation of a growing audience. However, since I rebuilt my FreeNAS server, which meant a restore of the site, my visit count has crashed to 0 (from a huge number of 3). I am assuming those other “visitors” are automated bots scouring the web, which no doubt have now become confused by the size-able re-alignment of the site links. But if these happen to be the one or two…
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A special thanks to all those that serve or have served in the military, as the United States celebrates Memorial Day.
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The last few days have been rather hectic, as shows in my recent posts – my focus has been a bit all over. Work has been rather crazy, several major outages and other critical work, resulting in long hours. And we have had a resurgence in interest in Ark: Survival, starting from scratch on the Valhalla world, and using the Survival Plus mod. This changes the game extensively, which has been a challenge learning. Unfortunately, that added to the schedule, and this last week has been several very late night, grinding just a few more pieces of wood or stone.
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As a project for the Cub Scouts, for this year’s summer camp, I am constructing a pair of sling-shot style catapults for the kids. This weekend was the final time I have to finish them, and I managed to complete all the pieces and do at least a test assembly. The real test of course will be putting them together and seeing if they actually work, but that won’t come until the start of summer camp on June 19. In the meantime, here are a couple of pictures. The first is of one of the “legs”, assembled to test how…
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Unfortunately, timing and events conspired, and I broke my recent string of consistent posting each weekday yesterday. As such, my count gets to reset back to 0, and I start again. Overall, not a bad run, I think I managed nearly 2 months of consistent little articles, which for me is a personal best. And it was enough to form the start of a habit, such that it was nagging me yesterday when I realized I was going to miss my target time. In related notes, I am still working on the last Pathfinder video, it is a bit later…
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Between rebuilding my FreeNAS server, editing gaming videos, traveling for work, and various other activities, my schedule is rather full these days. The latest challenge is an ask from the Cub Scouts to build a functional set of “rubber band” style catapults for use during Day Camp this year. Since that is rapidly approaching, and I have few weekends to complete the task, this weekend is the designated window for construction. When we say rubber-bands, we are really talking about large springs or bungee cords – enough force to launch a kickball or similar object a decent distance, with enough…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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