Future water availability was another consideration in deciding to not keep my parents’ retirement home in Sun City West. Property values skyrocketed during the pandemic, but what happens if the water shortage becomes as severe as seems likely?
Sunday in the Blog With Linda
Yesterday, I had six posts. Today, I only have another animated Linda GIF.
Whose Bright Idea Was This?
I know where this on-ramp is. Although I almost never take Route 495 South from there, I’m wondering who complained enough to get that light installed.
Yeah, It Does That
Sometimes, my Verizon G3100 Router is a P.I.T.B. – Pain in the Byte.
2026 Oct 3 15:54:02 info sysup: [SYS.6][SYS] Reboot by Power Cycle/Software Fault induced 2026 Oct 3 15:54:02 info sysup: [SYS.6][SYS] system startup 2026 Oct 3 15:54:23 info netifd: [WAN.6][SYS] eth4 up 2026 Oct 3 15:54:27 info netifd: [WAN.6][SYS] WANv4 up, 1000 Mbps full duplex
Gut Punch in Ohio
“The only thing we’re doing badly at is public relations.” – Trump
Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/gut-punch-ohio-nearly-1-040301412.html
EMR AIeee!
Epic Systems is doing something Microsoft has done in the past, by putting product development on hold for a security review.
“Ultimately they need to get ready to patch, patch, patch,” he said. “As soon as they think they are patching fast enough, they need to patch faster.”
I’m laughing, because rushed patches inevitably result in needing to patch the patches. This is a drill that’s been played out so very many times before. New features always open the potential for new security vulnerabilities.
What confounds me, after these many decades, is the endless cat-and-mouse game between corporations and hackers. Code that wasn’t rushed out the door seems no more secure than the rush jobs. Despite going through multiple staff meetings, peer reviews and security checks, vulnerabilities in software are discovered by outsiders and exploited.
Artificial Intelligence isn’t merely a new, possibly risky, feature being added to an existing, widely-used system. AI is a fundamental change in the way software is generated, content is presented, and how people interact online.