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Recovering a blog… for dummies

Part 1 – Dissolution

In 2023 I let my domain registration and hosting services lapse. I had owned jonmcosgrove.name since about 2013, and babylonman.com for even longer, perhaps since about 2010. Somewhere in there I also registered joncosgrove.com. All of which at one point or another was the dns pointing to my WordPress blog hosted at Bluehost.

For several years my activity was low but consistent. Then a few years ago posting consistency declined. The trend is clear in the post history. Continue reading “Recovering a blog… for dummies”

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May 4th had the makings of a typical day. I rode my bike to work in the morning, and got a call from a coworker about 10 minutes before arriving to my building. He wanted to move a piece of equipment in order to test it in another area of the lab. He wanted a hand when I got there. “No problem.” I said.

I arrived, changed out of my riding clothes, and walked to the other end of the lab. Young, my coworker, hadn’t arrived yet, so I went over and started to unplug the equipment. It was only a single connection, albeit a big one: one hundred and fifty amps, 3 phase, 480VAC. Continue reading “bzzzztt”