Last week my blog server was down.
It turned out to be an unusual underground fire in Baltimore.
The severity of the fire caused the city to shut down both our primary and secondary power grids. Our NOC was able to use our battery back-up system in the initial hours to allow us to bring all [...]

The post below was put up because a friend was understandably concerned.
Sometimes companies listen. It may take a lot of talking and a lot of persistence. It sometimes takes going to the media.
I’ve been dealing with a company for 7 months now. And I’m still at square one.
Phone calls, paper work….they haven’t budged. So [...]

Just cruised past Matt 25:40, and saw this item. It has me floored.
Remember the news item that went around last week, about super-strong bike locks that could be picked with a Bic pen? That was an important story, affecting lots of people with expensive bikes. The company involved, Kryptonite, fessed up and decided to [...]

Blog on the Lillypad is a facinating place.
Jeri Massi’s blog is quite unique.
Reading it is a bit like going through a maze or connecting pieces in a puzzle.
Readers are treated with intelligence, and digging for the gold is worth every minute. You just never know where you are going to jump to next.
Jeri came from [...]

Connexions has come up with a thought, with some action to go with it.
You’ve seen a great many posts on this blog about labels - particularly using political labels to categorize believers. Labelling certainly isn’t limited to election years, but it does seem to be a very peculiar trait we tend to see in North [...]

One of my more pleasant blog leaps is over to Killing the Buddha.
I like their statement about what they are about, and I wish I could write half as well as Jeff Sharlet.
Killing the Buddha is about finding a way to be religious when we’re all so self-conscious and self-absorbed. Knowing more than ever about [...]

Notes in the Key of Life has a moving email from her younger brother David.
Finished training another class of Iraqi cadets on the range today. The majority of them come to me with no shooting skills, no concept of the fundamentals of marksmanship and no experience with a pistol. Most of them understand the controls [...]

Haiti needs more body bags.
Who does that?
Who provides the body bags?
And in 30+C heat, what kind of diseases do Haitians face while they wait for food, water and shelter and the next storm?