I had to spend a large part of it running errands, and I have to attend a meeting tonight. It’s going to get increasingly busy for me over the next few weeks until this event is over, so I’m warning people now. Hopefully it’ll all get back to normal soon…
Category: Not-politics
Microsoft bends its neck on subscription-free Office.
Well, well, [expletive deleted] well: “Microsoft has announced that the next subscription-free version of its Office suite will launch later this year. A commercial preview of Office LTSC 2024 will be available from next month, with a full launch scheduled for later in the year.” It’ll be on a five-year support plan, and Microsoft fairly clearly does not want to offer it. However, as somebody in comments over there notes: Microsoft wants even less to keep losing customers to free word processing programs*.
Continue reading Microsoft bends its neck on subscription-free Office.Monthly SCA meeting!
Had to prep for it, too. List of things that needed be gone over, paperwork to resolve, discussions on storage and staffing for the event I’m running – I like to pretend sometimes that I miss the old days, when we just did events. I don’t really, though. In the old days, none of us had any money and events were always one step away from a total disaster. Why, for the longest time we didn’t even really have spreadsheets. I’m trying to imagine running anything without spreadsheets, and failing.
Anyway: busy night.
I did not beware the Ides of March.
I honestly never do. It’s kind of surprising, really: I mean, I was an English major. I practically minored in Shakespeare. And yet, it’s just a day that has come, if not yet gone…
Starship makes it to space!
SpaceX lost footage (and presumably the ship) after this, but this… this is something new to see.
Farther along with every test. And once we can put all that mass in orbit… well. We can reassess what might be done, up there.
Quote of the Day, Well, When You Put It THAT Way edition…
I’m never going to hear how this ends, and that’s a shame:
Continue reading Quote of the Day, Well, When You Put It THAT Way edition…Well, here’s a shocker. Incognito Market, a darknet platform connecting sellers of narcotics to potential buyers, has turned out to be not entirely trustworthy.
Drug vendors and buyers alike are being extorted. They are being threatened that their supposedly secure (and in some cases supposedly deleted) private chats will be made public unless they give in to their blackmailer’s demands.
Sic transit horribilis Deadspin.
Purchased without warning, and casually gutted like a river trout. The new owners merely wanted the name, nothing else. Everybody involved with the site? Discarded, without regret, sympathy, or apparently a way to appeal.
…Look, what could I say that would be more contemptuous and cutting than objective reality? Seriously, to top that I might have to do actual damage to my soul. I’m not gonna.
MERCH! Time to get your mugs and fridge magnets!
There’s a bunch of other stuff at the new store, but… mugs and fridge magnets!
I have gotten a good tier for my account – better than I expected, in fact – so I’m willing to see how this experiment plays out. There is value in setting up one-stop-shopping merchandise, so let’s see what it is!
If you’d rather just buy my books, that’s cool, too.
#commissionearned
I have the Sleep Madness.
I need to go to bed, like, now.