Blaugust 2026 results
The 2026 edition of Blaugust- the festival of blogging is wrapping up. This is my third year participating, and I started with fairly modest goals:
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Iris is gone
We had our beloved cat Iris euthanized after a long illness on May 1 of this year at the age of 19 and one half years. I’ve been remiss in terms of reporting on this fact for no good reason other than it hurt then and it continues to hurt now. But I felt it was only fair to say something about our loss of our beloved grey and white tabby girl since I so recently reported on a new addition to our household, Sapphire.
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Am I part of the Indieweb?
Juhis tells us that there is no membership card for the Indieweb blogging community. I like his thesis as I sort of feel like I’m at least on the periphery of the Indieweb movement. But I also feel like I’m on the outside, being judged for not being “indie” enough.
(more…)Say hello to Sapphire
We have added a kitten to our clowder as of August 2, 2026, and her name is Sapphire. Before you ask: this means we now have four cats, three in the main house and one in my office over the garage. Yes that is a lot of cats. No, I didn’t really want to have more cats. Yes, Irene begged and cajoled me for days.
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Purpose
I read a post by Toby on the topic of purpose as a general concept in life and found it very insightful. His post is far more insightful than this one is going to be. Go read his blog at the link above to get some excellent definitions and thoughtful consideration regarding the meaning of purpose.
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Server outage- MariaDB and Fedora problems
My blog went down overnight without any planning on my part. When I checked it this morning, all three of my sites were showing an error that looked like this:
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AI Waste
I have Opinions™ about artificial intelligence. I’m not wholly against it, but I do feel that the current over-enthusiastic investment and circular dealing in the industry is a toxic aberration. We are spending trillions of dollars on technology that produces a few billion dollars worth of questionable benefit, all while consuming vast amounts of power, water, and technology.
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Finding motivation
It is the fourth week of Blaugust, and the topic is on staying motivated. I normally don’t post very frequently on my blog, so any increase over perhaps two or three times in a month is a significant goal for me. But I’m doing better than I ever had this Blaugust having achieved 31 posts several days ago and 38 in total as of August 21. What is keeping me going?
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AI watermarking
I came across something on Engadget about AI watermarking being implemented to comply with new EU regulations. The topic was a new one for me, and piqued my interest. A lot of people have rather strong opinions on where and how artificial intelligence is used, and watermarking is a step to provide some visibility into that use.
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An opinion about RSS
There has been a bit of discussion in the Blaugust community about the importance and nature of RSS feeds for bloggers. Roger at Contains Moderate Peril had his say, and so did Fyr over at Fyr.io.
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