Retired technologist; servant of cats; gamer; blogger; sometimes grumpy old manhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mwqha55kjp2bSapphire and the boys I take a fair number of random photos around the house, several a week on average I'd guess.... #Cats #cattax #corbie #pie #sapphire https://www.kgadams.net/critters/sapphire-and-the-boys30 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqha55kjp2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mwnwrbvyov2sThrowback: cell phone standards in Iraq Fasten your seat belts as today my own personal "Wayback machine" is taking us all the way back to March of 2003…... #cdma #cellular #gsm #iraqwar #throwbacks https://www.kgadams.net/tiny-thoughts/throwback-cell-phone-standards-in-iraq29 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnwrbvyov2shttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mwlgdrlv5l2iEarly coding experiences I came across an article on Wired during Blaugust of 2024 and thought I should write something about my own introduction to coding as a teenager.... #6502 #basic #C #coding #pascal #retrocomputing https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/early-coding-experiences28 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlgdrlv5l2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mwduvqvwhe2kBlogging isn’t dead Two years ago Wilhelm had some well-considered words to say (TAGN) regarding the state of blogging in the 2020's.... #blogging #deadparrot #facebook #indieweb #sharecropping #socialmedia https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/blogging-isnt-dead25 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwduvqvwhe2khttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mw6tz4xijm2bHow many blog posts left? I was going through my notes from a year or so ago and came across a reference to…... #blogger #lifespan #mortality #postcount #wordcount https://www.kgadams.net/life/how-many-blog-posts-left23 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6tz4xijm2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mw4djarzvs27Lions lose in conflict between nomads and government Ten lions have been killed with poison in an attack on the wildlife in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation area.... #death #lions #ngorongoro #nomads #poison #tanzania https://www.kgadams.net/tiny-thoughts/lions-lose-in-conflict-between-nomads-and-government22 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4djarzvs27https://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mvzt24yomr2vAI: some words about feelings Bhagpuss published a post a few weeks back about AI and how we feel about it. Not about the hard crunchy aspects of AI, but about feelings and attitudes towards what may one day be a new form of actual… #AI #airegulation #apocalypse #feelings #government #skynet https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/ai-some-words-about-feelings21 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvzt24yomr2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mvxcm66iov27XBox cutting cloud gaming off at the knees Microsoft has announced new limits on cloud gaming will be introduced in November of this year…... #cloud #microsoft #money #termsandconditions #xboxcloudgaming #xboxgamepass https://aginggamer.net/grumpy-gamer-rants/xbox-cutting-cloud-gaming-off-at-the-knees/20 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxcm66iov27https://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mvpr6dqccp2yLarge AI firms ask for regulation Late last week Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the AI industry to be regulated…... #AI #ceos #darioamodei #regulation #samaltman https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/large-ai-firms-ask-for-regulation17 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpr6dqccp2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mvnapmotip2pStar Trek is 60 years old I have missed the actual birthday of Star Trek- September 8- by a good week. I have a good excuse as I was away…... #discovery #enterprise #picard #startrek #strangenewworlds #tng #tos #voyager https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/star-trek-is-60-years-old16 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnapmotip2phttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mvll7ispat2yNarcissism, thy name is Drumpf I refuse to name the man here today who has called for the closure of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts…... #donald #drumpf #kennedycenter #kingcombover https://www.kgadams.net/tiny-thoughts/narcissism-thy-name-is-drumpf15 Sep 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvll7ispat2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mvi7rkzbzz2pA trip to Radium My best friend Chris reached out to me at the end of June with a plan to meet up at a midway point between his home in Edmonton and our home in Castlegar.... #bighornmountain #billie #chris #invermere #oldsalzburg #panorama #radium https://www.kgadams.net/life/a-trip-to-radium14 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvi7rkzbzz2phttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mvaqmnnqd527Am I bored? Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril wrote a nice piece on boredom and what it means to him…... #boredom #creativity #problemsolving #riskseeking https://www.kgadams.net/life/am-i-bored11 Sep 2026 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvaqmnnqd527https://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3muwmj6rwb722Deploying a Synology NAS I decided recently that it was time to build a new network attached storage service for our home network.... #afp #NAS #smb #storage #synology #timecapsule #timemachine https://www.kgadams.net/gear/deploying-a-synology-nas07 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwmj6rwb722https://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3murlld5ueo2nResolving the MariaDB and Fedora problem I previously recounted an issue with my blog server wherein the MariaDB failed to start after a Fedora update.... #fedora #mariadb #root #systemdtmpfiles https://www.kgadams.net/sitenews/resolving-the-mariadb-and-fedora-problem05 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3murlld5ueo2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mupnidia2q2tReminder of Brad McQuaid An off-hand comment in a post on The Ancient Gaming Noob today about EverQuest Legends reminded me of the passing of Brad McQuaid over six years ago.... #bradmcquaid #deceased #everquest #johnsmedley #sadness https://aginggamer.net/game-industry/reminder-of-brad-mcquaid/04 Sep 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupnidia2q2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mup34fwqn62bTim Cook’s retirement September 1st is Tim Cook's official last day as CEO of Apple after 15 years at the helm of that now-dominant company.... #apple #iphone #mac #timcook https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/tim-cooks-retirement04 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup34fwqn62bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mumkoydme62fSony makes bold claim about game ownership Sony would like you to know that any reasonable gamer would know that purchasing a game is just licensing a game…... #courtcases #licensing #ownership #Sony https://aginggamer.net/game-industry/sony-makes-bold-claim-about-game-ownership/03 Sep 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumkoydme62fhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3muk27a7ljz2eOn the loss of CoCo We lost another cat hat I haven't previously written about in addition to Iris: CoCo. She was with us for nearly as long as Iris, and passed at about the same age of 19 years.... #cat #Coco #memorium #passing https://www.kgadams.net/critters/on-the-loss-of-coco02 Sep 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk27a7ljz2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3muhnzsnsgo2wAdding word counts to the archive page I spent a bit of time on Monday adding a PHP code snippet to my Wordpress site that outputs a total monthly word count and average word count per post to the archives page.... #archive #snippets #word-counts #Wordpress https://www.kgadams.net/sitenews/adding-word-counts-to-the-archive-page01 Sep 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhnzsnsgo2whttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3muezaoz3b32qBlaugust 2026 results The 2026 edition of Blaugust- the festival of blogging is wrapping up. This is my third year participating, and I started with fairly modest goals:... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #challenges #statistics https://www.kgadams.net/sitenews/blaugust-2026-results31 Aug 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3muezaoz3b32qhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mucirt6h7n2gIris is gone We had our beloved cat Iris euthanized after a long illness on May 1 of this year at the age of 19 and one half years.... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #iris #memorial #passing https://www.kgadams.net/critters/iris-is-gone30 Aug 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucirt6h7n2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mu7yehnhys2hFree Witcher 3 remaster! If you have a PC, PS5, or XBox X/S with a copy of Witcher 3- rejoice! CD Project RED is giving us some free stuff in the coming weeks.... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #cdprojectred #songsofthepast #witcher3 https://aginggamer.net/game-miscellany/free-witcher-3-remaster/29 Aug 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7yehnhys2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mu5hubdaqh2xAm I part of the Indieweb? Juhis tells us that there is no membership card for the Indieweb blogging community. I like his thesis as I sort of feel like I'm at least on the periphery of the Indieweb movement.... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #gatekeeping #indieauth #indieweb #webmentions https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/am-i-part-of-the-indieweb28 Aug 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5hubdaqh2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mu2xexpaiu2cSay hello to Sapphire We have added a kitten to our clowder as of August 2, 2026, and her name is Sapphire.... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #Cats #corbie #finn #magpie #sapphire https://www.kgadams.net/critters/say-hello-to-sapphire27 Aug 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2xexpaiu2chttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mtygw46dsv2dPurpose I read a post by Toby on the topic of purpose as a general concept in life and found it very insightful.... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #philosophy #purpose #spirituality https://www.kgadams.net/life/purpose26 Aug 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtygw46dsv2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mtwlcmt63a2vServer outage- MariaDB and Fedora problems My blog went down overnight without any planning on my part. When I checked it this morning, all three of my sites were showing an error that looked like this:... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #fedora #mariadb #mysql #outage https://www.kgadams.net/sitenews/server-outage-mariadb-and-fedora-problems25 Aug 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwlcmt63a2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mtwepge62j23AI Waste I have Opinions™ about artificial intelligence. I'm not wholly against it, but I do feel that the current over-enthusiastic investment and circular dealing in the industry is a toxic aberration.... #AI #blaugust #blaugust2026 #datacentres #infrastructure https://www.kgadams.net/geekdom/ai-waste25 Aug 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwepge62j23https://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mttg2y3vhw2mWarren Spector retiring I came across this post over on Engadget about Warren Spector retiring from the games industry. It caught me a bit in my emotions, and stirred up a few thoughts.... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #deusex #thief #ultima #warrenspector https://aginggamer.net/game-industry/warren-spector-retiring/24 Aug 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttg2y3vhw2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kgadams.net/post/3mtqvkoxvjf2cFinding motivation It is the fourth week of Blaugust, and the topic is on staying motivated. I normally don't post very frequently on my blog, so any increase over perhaps two or three times in a month is a significant goal for me.... #blaugust #blaugust2026 #goals #motivation #writing https://www.kgadams.net/sitenews/finding-motivation23 Aug 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:bz5mnjhersfojvf6bx2s7xep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqvkoxvjf2c