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I just got done helping my client move 3 servers we had colocated with layerhost at The Foundry Datacenter in North Houston. From what we heard LayerHost didn't pay their bill to switch ( owner of The Foundry ), and as a result the Foundry pulled the plug on them. Our servers went dark last Friday on February 6th, 2026. We were able to finally pull them Tuesday, and get them colocated with Dartnode which has rackspace at TRG Datacenter which is just 30 minutes north of the Foundry. If you have hardware with layerhost in Houston, you will need to start looking for somewhere else to colocated it. So far Dartnode has exceeded all my expectations with helping us get back up and running quickly.
Trump wants a 10% cap on credit card rates for 1 year. Banks say such a move would tank the economy, with 80% of consumers no longer qualifying for credit. This is banks assuming that these consumers would simply stop spending if they could no longer use credit cards. This is greatly exagerated.
There is a proposal floating around called EPIC 2.0. Its goal is to get a voter initiative on the next ballot that would Ban Income, Property, and inherritance taxes. This might sound great, but State and County Governments still need to generate revenue some how. That only leaves consumption taxes to make up for the shortfall. This is why it won't work.
Recently there have been numerous articles about quantum computers cracking the underlying algorithm behind bitcoin. SHA-256. Bitcoin's developers could handle this in several ways, but there is one thing that the world is over looking completely.
Something I wasn't expecting is for the recent solar storm to cause problems with my 3D printing. During the Recent Solar Storms in May 2024, My Creality K1 Max which has flawlessly printed over 100 times since I bought it, crashed. Note to others, when there are Solar Storms, just turn off your printers until the storm has passed.
When I first started to get into crypto, I had similar feelings about it as others. That the government would shut it down. Then a friend of mine asked how would they do that. When he explained to me how bitcoin really works it made it me realize that the government can't shut it down. But that doesn't make bitcoin immune to bad actors.
Swimming is hard sport. Unlike most other sports where its all about hand eye coordination, or just raw power. There is a balance in swimming that makes it like no other sport. That and the training is both mentally and physically tough. At times you might feel like you will never get faster, or faster than the other kids. Its times like this when I really really wish I could ask questions to some of swimming's greatest to see what struggles they endured when they were growing up swimming. Because the fact is the greatest swimmers are glorified in way that makes lesser swimmers feel like they never struggled, and had personal best times every time they hit the water. Here are some of the top questions I woud like to ask Michael Phelps.
Age Group Swimming can be a lot of fun, but once you age up to 11-12, things can get depressing. Here is how you can deal with it, and what you should be doing for your swimmer.
This is a question I often hear from parents new to swimming. You will sometimes hear swimmers and their parents refer to a pool being fast. And at certain meets you might notice that some of the faster swimmers don't even bother to signup even though the pool might be less than a mile from their home.
My title might sound a little dramatic, and failure is probably too strong a word to describe the learning experience. Recently I got the chance to help my son learn from making poor choices. The best learning is not when the parent tells the kid you should have to done this. Its when you suggest another outcome and a light bulb goes off in the kids head, and they actively adjust their choices based on the previous poor choice.