January 2012
3 posts
Amazon CreateSpace Discontinues Pro Plan
I’m cross-posting this from the Greater Portland Scribists blog post, here
My brother Paul and I have been indie-publishing our novels through Amazon’s CreateSpace service for over a year now. We wanted physical copies of our books to give to friends and family, and to have on our shelves. It’s one of those things that is just nice to see. For every book we published, we...
Inside A Power Supply
This morning I had a problem with my server. After some diagnostics, I traced it down to the power supply. And, because I’m a little bit crazy (just a little), I went further.
Breaking the seal and opening a power supply will void the warranty. This should be obvious, and just in case it isn’t, they say so on the very seal I had to cut. Granted, this piece of electronics is almost...
Oh, Hi Monday
I haven’t had a bad day in a long while now.
Every so often they creep in, screw up a bunch of things, and then just slowly fade away. Unless you count that one September, when I was in college, where the whole month was like one very long bad day…
But I digress.
This post is about today. And today is so bad, it started yesterday. At some point in the evening (maybe around 6pm or...