Fiona’s been dealing with some respiratory stuff for a while, with what seemed like a cold starting around a month ago. Over the past few weeks she’s been having continuous problems with mucus in one nostril, and this past weekend she was also having nasal bleeding, although that’s cleared up.Anyway, she’s really...

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Today is π day, which is a silly day to celebrate based on a completely arbitrary calendar system that happens to share some concordance with the inferior circle constant in our standard number system1. But π day is a bit special to me. Or rather, this π day is special to me, because it’s the 10th anniversary of an...

It’s about time I finally write a timeline of how frustrating HRT has been over the years, because I’m tired of re-explaining it and just want something to point folks to whenever it comes up.Short version: I have historically been done extremely dirty by the healthcare system when it comes to HRT access. 2004:...

In every corner of my life right now I cannot seem to escape the increasing fervor of the ongoing debate regarding AI and machine learning in general, where on one side you have people who are completely anti-AI and others who are completely pro-AI, and any point made in opposition to either of these things is seen...

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There is a growing trend for new protocols to express themselves in the form of a well-known URI. It’s seen as an easy place to stash something where other interoperable software might want to probe for protocol support, as an improvement to the old ad-hoc behavior of things like robots.txt and favicon.ico and the...

These days I have quite a lot of ambition but not enough energy to execute on it. I’m trying, though. Several months ago I realized I was feeling like I did back when I was off estrogen entirely because of the embolism and got my levels checked for the first time in a while. And they were dangerously low.My doctor...

It’s okay to not feel okay, especially when your hormones have been out of whack for months and healthcare is slow to try to help you with it. My pain and fatigue have been especially bad lately, and that also feeds into my lack of patience and temper, and also is probably due in no small part to the fact that my...

It’s been nearly a week since I removed Cloudflare from my sites. As a quick followup, I did get a slight surge in traffic that lasted for a day or so after a bunch of bots' DNS caches expired, but they seem to have all given up after the Cloudflare “managed challenge” interstitial turned into an HTTP 401 error for...

About a year ago I set up Cloudflare as a fronting CDN for this site and my music site because it was the most expedient way of dealing with an AI bot onslaught. It helped a bit but the bots very quickly figured out how to get around all that and while Cloudflare gave me some slightly-better management tools for...

Ughhhh, this has been a heck of a week.As usual I’ve been full of pain. And my brief surge of enthusiasm for working on music got cut kind of short because of it. But I’m hoping that tomorrow feels better and I can go back to the studio.I’m also not sure where I stand with my fatigue. The last few days I’ve had to...