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Server Migration – Well, It Seems That We Made It Through – Mostly!

Mostly.  It doesn’t appear that we’ve lost any posts (Steve and I saved content from the last couple of days just in case). The Home page comes up well, and we can get into the “back end” of the ‘Grok to create more stuff for your edification and amusement.

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Second Announcement – GraniteGrok Will Go Dark TODAY at 2pm

UPDATE: 2 hours warning! It will take a “couple” hours is what we’ve been told to move to the new server.  Time enough to get an incremental RESTORE from our current server onto what will be our new one – 3X better than this one.

Server Upgrade warning: because our readers are AWESOME and you’re BLOWING THE DOORS OFF!

Due to the massive increase in our traffic / readers lately, we’ve been bumping up to our server’s capacity.  What is really throwing us over the cliff has been a growing number of Bots that also crawling our content for various reasons at the same time.  So while we’ve been going up and down the …

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Grok 3.0 – It’s almost time!

We’ve been waiting a long time for this and, finally, it’s almost here.  A lot of background work has been done by Perceptions Studio and yesterday was a massively long prototyping session as to how it will all fit together.  We think 

UPDATE: The GOOD thing is that because of all of you readers and contributors, we raised $3,000;   That struck out sentence is now wrong – it is now $4,000; a thousand dollars came in overnight!!!!  I can’t tell or express myself well enough to tell you how grateful this ordinary schlub from central NH is for all …

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Grok 2.0 – Still under Construction

Yeah, we’re up and then we’re down.  The ‘Grok has been getting hit from both hardware problems with balky disk drives and recalcitrant RAID controllers and some software issues from moving from our old blogging platform.  Dontcha just love Murphy’s Laws?? I think we need a healthy dose of boring for a while, but given …

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