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I can't believe the last time I logged in as Mortis Anarchy was in 2010!

In 2010, I was a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma working towards a degree in online journalism. Well, I successfully completed my degree and I'm now a working journalist (but I have been called a half-baked journalist by the lovely people who comment on our website, so it might not count )

I've thought about logging back in every once in a while, but things come up. Actually, ...

Next Step in Gilding the Lily

I was noting some piercings recently, when I remembered fencing scars. There I a nice description of the application of them in Royal Flash by George McDonald Fraser, in which the main character is given two scars in a practice duel with a master. The scars were as part of a disguise, and the novel is similar to The Prisoner of Zenda. The fencing scars were especially popular in the later 19th and early 20th centuries in Germany, but they were not rare ...

I don’t like noise, and I have a rather broad definition of it. There are many kinds of noise, ranging from dogs howling at nothing to infants bawling to pieces of steel falling on concrete to motorcycles converting gasoline to noise to monster trucks tearing down the road to “wall of sound” style music to evil politicians speaking and so on. It’s Summer, so there are more noisy engines running than there might be at other times of the year, so they are what triggered this rant.

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Well, since I started this again I'll write again.

My son left yesterday to spend a month with his dad and family. It is always odd when he leaves, before he goes I think about how I'll enjoy having no responsibility and I can just come home after work and eat dinner at 5 if I want too (when I am alone I tend to eat dinner two or three times, I think I have Hobbit genes) watch tv 'till I fall asleep or read with no one interrupting me. But the minuet he leaves I just want to sit down ...

In the last few years cloud computing has again gotten a push from networking and server owning companies. This is the third push into cloud computing that I have noticed, but I might have missed one.

The first big push for cloud computing was in the early 1990’s, and it was led by Oracle and Larry Ellison. A number of cloud programs became available, including Star Office, a cloud office suite, that has since morphed into Open Office and Libre Office. That initial try was roundly ...