The Meaning Of Death

Flames died. Sound died. Light died. Anghammarad. Anghammarad looked at his hands. There was nothing there except heat, furnace heat, blasting heat that nevertheless made the shapes of fingers. Anghammarad, a hollow voice repeated. “I Have Lost My Clay,” said the golem. Yes, said Death, that is standard. You are… Read More

It Works Better When You Plug It In

Yesterday we had a short power outage here at eigenmagic labs. I commented to Auds that I wasn’t worried about it, because my Shiny! New! UPS would have taken care of it. Indeed it did. For the computers that were plugged into it. Alas, the webserver wasn’t, because it was… Read More

Do You Have IT Insurance?

To phrase this another way: Do you have backups? That work? Are you sure? Having proper backups is your insurance policy against theft, fire, accidental damage, etc. for all of your photos, code, blogs, letters to your parents, whatever. If your house burned down today, what would you lose? Learn… Read More