Photo is of a cat treat I recently fished out of a printer. My own printer. I can't believe my life sometimes....

I've had some equipment returned to me at work, and I need to backup the data before I can wipe the machines. So now I wait, as many gigabytes of data fly past me over the wifi (unlucky) and ethernet (very lucky), and hope that I don't have to interact with the backup processes on these machines. Amusing that as we've moved into our digital homes, we care less about organization and more about capacity. One users desktop has so many files littering it that I can barely see the desktop photo behind them all....

Over the years, I've had and used a number of printers in a variety of situations. By far, my favorite was a workhorse of a printer that I had at work: The HP LaserJet 1200, first introduced in 2001. I was at that job for almost 18 years, and I had it in my office for about 12 of those years.

If you use AppleMail and any kind of spam filtering, you know that sometimes things get through and you didn't want it. Despite having filtering at the domain level, and an anti-spam filter on my computer, stuff still gets through. It sucks.

It used to be that just creating a "robots.txt" file would be enough to stop your site from being crawled by webspiders intent on indexing the internet. Now you can't even count on that, apparently: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives I've been dealing with various versions of this on my websites as well as some others that I help run.

With my new-ish job, come new responsibilities. Among them is keeping track of what we already have and are keeping in case we can use it. Enter four older UPS's..... If you don't need a UPS that can power a whole server rack, then you likely know that you can plug your UPS into your computer to have it do things like power down when the power is out - which is great, except when you inherit things and they don't have all the things you need.