If you are reading this you are one of the lucky few who are able to do so. This is day ten of our ongoing website intermittent availability problems (specifically latency and database issues for the technical geeks out there) with a large Internet domain registrar and web hosting company we presently use to ‘host’ our website. Whom, I might add, shall remain nameless lest we be sued into oblivion.
Our only solace is we are not alone for there appears to be hundreds, maybe even thousands, of others using the same company who are experiencing similar problems. Misery truly does love company.
Please be ‘patient’ as we attempt to sort through these problems. Speaking of patient, since today is Fed Wednesday, let us see if the Federal Reserve also remains ‘patient’ and continues to spike the Kool-Aid bowl for Wall Street and moral hazard lovers everywhere.
As much as we would like to ‘believe’ we are all clear headed, logical individuals who only deal with verified ‘facts’ while shunning hearsay, rumor, ‘hope’ and ‘belief’, the reality is to some degree or another we integrate all of the above, and so much more, into our personal cognitive operating system. The tendency when reading such a statement is to immediately emotionally trigger, become annoyed or even angry, and then listen to that soothing inner egoic voice as it assures us we are not the one Cog is looking for.
Regardless of whether we attribute this cognitive juxtaposition to raging ego, genetic predisposition, normalcy bias, cultural conditioning or simply denial, critical thinking, if ever truly deployed, is often limited to those times when we ‘believe’ it is in our best interest to think outside the box. But even then, our effort is severely limited by the tendency to hold on tightly to the comforting handrails when venturing into foreign territory. Continue reading The Death of Hope and Belief→
As with so much else up here on the mountain, every project I tackle ultimately winds up tackling me. In fact my project eyes tend to be much larger than my belly of knowledge, though my stubborn streak and dogged perseverance tends to save me from myself more often than I care to admit.
Still....I try to follow the golden rule of life, one which has served me quite well. When I finally look around and find myself in a hole, the golden rule is to stop digging and climb back out. Thankfully I usually follow that advice.
This article is the first in a series to be posted over the next several weeks describing the hole I dug while designing and installing the first phase of our photovoltaic power system. Subsequent chapters with go into much greater detail about each section of the system. Please join me for chapter one.
