There’s a Monty Python scene where there’s a man saying he’s not dead yet while two other people are arguing about whether he is and that’s what this feels like. Not dead, just busy, learning new things, and still recovering from that surgery.

I had a meeting with a Crowdstrike representative about a month ago, told them many times our office was not a candidate but they wanted me to view a demo and I was like ok… you’re supplying wine but it’s not happening. Decided against them for reasons that totally have to do with me foreseeing Friday’s disaster. I kid, just was not for us, but yeah bullet dodged.

Been chugging along with the Bambu A1 Mini with a work project and also working on designing my fridge condiment stacker I came up with in 2020 as a way to free up about a foot of storage space in a fridge by storing certain shaped condiments at angles. Will it work? Not a clue.

I have no big plans for the site, but I am dropping the theme and will be dropping our ad network at the end of this cycle. Ads have become more problematic than profitable lately.

On that note, I am probably going to shut down the forums in the next couple of months. Nobody uses them and the primary activity I see there is spammers spamming unsuccessfully. I was never a member of the Pocketables forums when they were popular, coming from G&E after the merger when the commentary had died down significantly, so they’re not a thing for me – if you use them for reference I suggest archiving them.

To chase the algorithm I am probably going to start removing content that’s just terribly outdated and serves no purpose. Much of this is decades old Apple related that for some reason gets an insane amount of bot traffic.

Had more to write but got to pick up a vehicle and drop my dad off at a doctor’s appointment

Short site update by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

There’s a Monty Python scene where there’s a man saying he’s not dead yet while two other people are arguing about whether he is and that’s what this feels like. Not dead, just busy, learning new things, and still recovering from that surgery.

I had a meeting with a Crowdstrike representative about a month ago, told them many times our office was not a candidate but they wanted me to view a demo and I was like ok… you’re supplying wine but it’s not happening. Decided against them for reasons that totally have to do with me foreseeing Friday’s disaster. I kid, just was not for us, but yeah bullet dodged.

Been chugging along with the Bambu A1 Mini with a work project and also working on designing my fridge condiment stacker I came up with in 2020 as a way to free up about a foot of storage space in a fridge by storing certain shaped condiments at angles. Will it work? Not a clue.

I have no big plans for the site, but I am dropping the theme and will be dropping our ad network at the end of this cycle. Ads have become more problematic than profitable lately.

On that note, I am probably going to shut down the forums in the next couple of months. Nobody uses them and the primary activity I see there is spammers spamming unsuccessfully. I was never a member of the Pocketables forums when they were popular, coming from G&E after the merger when the commentary had died down significantly, so they’re not a thing for me – if you use them for reference I suggest archiving them.

To chase the algorithm I am probably going to start removing content that’s just terribly outdated and serves no purpose. Much of this is decades old Apple related that for some reason gets an insane amount of bot traffic.

Had more to write but got to pick up a vehicle and drop my dad off at a doctor’s appointment

Short site update by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.