Latest Rants

Though I've been a licensed "Ham" Operator for some time, I got my start, like many, playing with CB Radios in the 70s and 80s.

Citizen's Band is still very much a thing, especially Four Wheeling and some prefer hand held CBs to Walkie Talkies (because of range and frequencies), this list remains quite useful.

Well this has been a long time in the making. A long time ago "The Idea" was to have elfLand(.me) be my blog, and elfLand(.us) be a part of The Fediverse (also some DNS shenanigans, because I can). The idea being to run all my stuff Open and IndieWeb.

Blues Guitar if you just want to kick back and forget about your worries.

I happen to like Justin Johnson quite a bit. Hailing from Hollywood, which makes sense if you've even hung out in Hollywood for a bit.

Good for coding and SysAdmin crap.

I rather like this one.

OK, New Plan™!

First I tried the Embed Video module, and it works, it is very not responsive.

Then I tried the YouTube module, and make a YouTube Video content type. This works great, and, I have a shitload of content types already.

So, I'm adding the field to Blog Posts. This is going to give me an advantage later, me thinks, as I think of using Paragraphs for things. More on that later.

Version 115. I haven't had to do a bunch of data entry in a while and I've used NextCloud's Web UI for much of that. Gee whiz.

The input area only comes up so far. It can't be made into a pop-up. Adding fields is Atrocious.

Wow ... it's so bad that I should file a bug re-*

In making this site I need a Lorem Ipsum Generator. Well, I don't need one but it makes life more convenient.

There is some really great stuff at The Ultimate List Of Lorem Ipsum Generator. Hipster Ipsum and Bacon Ipsom are hysterical, tho the Samuel L. Ipsum is entirely too Safe For Work.

Yes, there went half an hour of the day.

As Always.

Three jacket potatoes with tuna and cheese. A brie and cranberry toastie with salt & vinegar crisps on the side. Five slices of millionaires shortbread, three slices of Victoria sponge and four chocolate chip cookies. Five slices of toast with tuna and cheese. Three slices of millionaires shortbread, two slices of Victoria sponge and three triple chocolate cookies. Two grande mochas with four shots of hazelnut syrup please. Next customer please.

Ok so running elfLand on a new server now. Because of the CentOS debacle, I'm switching to Alma Linux like pretty much everyone else.

So anyway, when I'm testing a new server build I generally move all of my crap over first to see what breaks. With BackDrop, NextCloud,  WordPress, Matomo, and a few other things running on the nice new Apache/PHP/PHP-FPM/MariaDB/Redis it gets a workout.