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For a little while I used to run the Billboard Liberation Front‘s website (INB4: no, don’t even bother asking. I have no idea how to reach them anymore. The Old…
NOTE: Some of the activities documented in this photo album, like a lot of what goes on in the Black Rock Desert during the off season (when seven different government…
2020, already a strange year due to the pandemic, had its strangest day, for the San Francisco area, on September 9. The Bay Area experienced a kind of weather that…
somewhere beneath the Bay Area, Aug 6 2004 Last July, my late* trubbamaking companion was trying to find a shortcut down to the beach when he noticed a hole in…
Introduction, 2023: Back when I first got to San Francisco in the mid-90s, full of youthful idealism, the first thing I did was seek out the San Francisco Cacophony Society…
Back around 2005-2006, as social media took off, I was a member of an urban exploration chat group, memory fails but it was probably something on Tribe or Friendster. Mentioning…
9/30/2005 I was wandering the trails through the woods by UC Santa Cruz, taking some pictures of trees and stuff and trying to shake off a cold, when fate brought…
Changed header single page title template and CSS to include title prefices and mimic front page hero post title appearance in post pages.
2025mar27
lots of crashes before I woke up this morning, had to restart whole server, even host machine froze.
Install 2nd monitor noted in “March 2025 monitor installs” text doc
edited /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs-3.desktop to stop tracker-miner indexer per https://verahill.blogspot.com/2012/08/disabling-tracker-miner-fs.html and the first answer at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/694065/how-to-really-completely-disable-gnome-tracker. Also turned off fs indexing on host machine
2025mar25
Install monitor noted in “March 2025 monitor installs” text doc in troubleshooting notes
2025mar22
Convert Details disclosure elements so all important ones have borders, replace triangles with open/close folder icons
2025mar20
Make noheader attribute of othercatposts shortcode remove blacktext class so links show as blue underlined, and add “showexcerpt” parameter.
Add plugin to allow logged-in users to edit pages on the front end. PFM settings optimizations to try to relieve recent slowdowns, changes logged in config files and saved locally in troubleshooting logs folder
Mike Kupietz, your humble proprietor, serving these electrons to you steaming hot from a server in the heart of San Francisco, right where the American dream rises out of the Pacific as a moist, gray fog and ascends to Heaven in a cacophony of poetry, acid rock and sarcasm.
This site brought to you by four months flat on my back in summer 2023 due to long covid, plus a whole lot of additional lovin' sweat & frustration since then. Per aspera, ad astra.