Ok ok ok. So whats up on the Bayou? Here we go. I decided to upgrade the software on the main server from 18.04 to 20.04 and all that goes with it. If all had gone well there would have been little in the way of interruptions and the site would be faster and more in tune with today’s standards. Did I tell you I am a close friend of Murphy? Yeah that Murphy, the one from Murphy’s Law fame. Well, he decided to pay me a visit, at the wrong time of course, and we had a small power interruption which seems to happen a lot down here and would have been no problem except for the fact that I was installing the new kernel1 . The power surge happening in the middle of main Kernel install caused a mass extinction event. I couldn’t reboot into either the new or old kernel and the file tree was beyond recovery. Soooooooooo I bit the bullet and did a fresh install on another drive and am slowly rebuilding the blog and the Stream server from the ground up. I can still use some of the old config files to guide me but I fear a lot of the history in the old database for the blog may be un-recoverable. I do have the random stream playing and I am working on getting some of our favorite stories from the history. But we shall see. Hang in there. Some of you have been with me since 2007 when I started this whole endeavor and I thank you for the emails and kind words through out the years, AND your patience So here’s the blog with a working stream and more and more will come online as time goes on.
Thank you ——Publius
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