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Ipower is dying.
My server company, Ipower, was down for 2 hours on Tuesday afternoon, and 14 hours from last night through this morning, so both my website and my blog were offline. What should I do? This is the only server I’ve had, and they were recommended highly when I started. They’re still one of the biggest, if not the biggest out there. But when they migrated us to the “upgraded” servers this year, it got worse and worse, with outages and slow slow interface on vdeck. My free ftp is literally 10 times faster for moving files. Now I’ll have to figure out how to move my domain, db, etc. Any…
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Translator needed for LA Times Opinion piece on chickens.
UPDATED: here. Ooh, good, I thought. An opinion on chickens. This is something I might want to read understand. Photo credit: Compassion Over Killing. I appreciate the humane way the HSUS treats photographers, too, by giving them proper credit. Chicken Run, by Julia Olmstead, is about an initiative by the Humane Society to outlaw battery cages for farm animals. If we’re going to eat eggs, I think the chickens that lay them should be able to stretch their wings, stand up and turn around, and not be caged. So I buy cage-free eggs, and I’m not alone. Demand for these eggs has outpaced supply in the last few years. So…
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Silver Lake heron photographer found alive and well!
Well, looks like I was right! How very satisfying. After I posted my second blog last week about the missing great blue heron photographer, who posted her photographs publicly on the slk reservoir fence, she wrote in my comments this weekend! Go here to read all by Joan M. Harrison, the photographer. Once again, ye olde heron poster. Basically, she is an artist who really cares about these birds, and doesn’t care at all about slk politics. How interesting that the CSSLR dragged her into the Meadows fight, without any proof or even logic. CurbedLA stepped up the fight to ringside status. Some of Joan’s thoughts: I appreciate your thoughtful…
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Water my plants while I’m gone, while you’re at it.
I’ve made so many new friends through blogging this year, and it is especially nice to get readers’ comments and emails. It’s great to hear from real people, instead of spam, or long chain letters. I’ll be going on holiday for a couple of weeks. Could one of you please water my plants while I’m gone? Pink geraniums do well here. Click for best image. (Contributed by a fellow cartoonist.)
