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Steven M Scotten

Drupal, maybe we should just be friends

Recently I finished reading a book and went to put the book in my blog. I don’t have the book report written but wanted to at least get a placeholder in the database with the vital statistics: title, author, word count, my rating, and so on. After entering the

Freedom is the freedom to say that fewer is fewer

United States President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum [https://web.archive.org/web/20171210061747/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/23/presidential-memorandum-regarding-hiring-freeze] 1 today instituting a hiring freeze on Federal civilian workers [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/23/trump-freezes-federal-hiring/] . White House Press Secretary Sean

I hope you're right

As the old chestnut goes, there are three tiny words that every marriage needs to be successful. I’m not talking about I love you. I mean, maybe you’re right. We are on the precipice of a highly divisive election. I fear that the nation is facing an existential

The New World Order Series

Back in 2008, Barack Obama made a comment comparing the longshot odds of an African-American winning a presidential election to the odds of the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series.1 Famously, the Red Sox had won in 2007 for the first time since… well, OK, since 2004. But

What's in an alien name?

What's in an alien name?

An oft-discussed topic among writers of speculative fiction, both science fiction and fantasy, is how to name characters, places, and ideas of extraterrestrial or otherwise non-human or alien origin. Naming is a difficult part of all fiction writing — it’s more difficult than one might think to make names for

Chinese Steel

Apologies to Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Thunders [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nPAqBPGPE]. Also, apologies to heroin addiction. Being compared to the 2016 US Presidential Election is unflattering even to heroin addiction. Somebody called me on the phone I defaulted on another loan No big deal! Wanna cop

Status update: I didn’t expect it to be that much downtime

Whoops! OK, that was my fault. I was actually quite surprised at how smoothly and quickly the transition went. As it turns out, it appears to have taken longer than expected for the DNS to update. In fact, the problem may have been in DNS cached in my browsers. When