Fall officially started here September 23rd but I don’t think Summer got the memo.
We live on a large hill next to the Pacific ocean and it’s so rare that it gets hot here that we don’t even have air conditioning.
The wind from the Pacific usually keeps us cool while the hill blocks any heat coming from inland.
Not today!
I am sitting at my desk with a fan blowing on me and I am sweating like I’m in a sauna. My poor little primary computer is suffering too. Right now as I type this, the GPU is sitting at a toasty 55c and the CPUs are a very toasty 58c. Those temps are with me doing nothing on it other than writing this post and watching the latest TWiT.
I am so tempted to join Neko and go lay in the shade on the cool concrete of the patio.
The best part? It’s only 11am and will most likely get hotter today.
UPDATE *** 1:30pm
As I expected, it’s gotten even hotter.
According to the LA Times, it looks like a record breaking day everywhere in SoCal.
Please make it stop.
What does one say on Memorial Day that does not sound clichéd or hollow?
How do you put into words the deep gratitude, sadness, and respect that one feels for all who have given and will give their lives in defense of freedom and liberty?
As I sit here thinking of all the fathers, sons, mothers and daughters who have given so much of themselves so that a silly man can sit in front of his computer and try to write something enlightened and profound, all I can muster is a humble thank you.
Thank you, each an every one of you. You are not forgotten.
Godspeed.
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I have been blogging on and off since 1996. I have always used a CMS that I have written myself. About three years ago I had finally had enough with blogging and converted my website over to a simple page with some image galleries and my Twitter feed.
Fast-forward a few years and once again the blogging bug returns. This time however, I wanted to concentrate on writing words and not a brand new CMS.
So I began looking around the Internet for a suitable system that met three simple requirements:
- The application should be open source, have the source code available, be .Net based, and be in active development.
- It must be secure, well written, extensible, and be standards compliant.
- It must support XMLRPC functionality so can use a WYSIWYG editor – in this case Microsoft's Live Writer.
I thought these requirements were going to be impossible to meet and I am happy to say I was wrong. So very wrong! There is BlogEngine.NET!
After spending a few weeks playing around with BlogEngine.NET and going through the code, I have to say I am very impressed. This is a remarkably robust and well written application. The user community is quite active and the development cycle is regular and ongoing. The data storage support is quite robust and supports everything from XML to SQLite. The application platform is highly extensible and remarkably easy to write for. All in all, I highly recommend BlogEngine.NET for all your blogging needs.
As you may have noticed (or not), this site has undergone a radical transformation. Yes, I have returned to blogging.
Beware, all topics are on the table here. If you don’t like what I have to say then don’t read this site. I don’t hold back – won’t hold back – and make no apologies for what I write here. We – at least for now – still have free speech on the Internet. .
Feel free to comment on anything posted here but realize that you are on my site, not yours. Freedom of speech only goes one way here – my way. On my site everyone has the right to my opinion, not yours. If I find comments offensive one of two things will happen:
- You will be mocked and ridiculed
- Your comments will be deleted
Now I am not saying don’t comment here, but rather, simply be substantive and polite. Consider this a blogging version of the Marquess of Queensberry rules.