I’ve thought about setting up a Wordpress instance to play around with. Withknown was built for the indieweb and makes it so easy, while with Wordpress it always seemed more complicated. This writeup helps a lot. source

“In lab tests, one touch of TNT completely repaired injured legs of mice over three weeks by turning skin cells into vascular cells.” This is some cool stuff. Biotech seems to be advancing quickly.

Abra Kadabra, a criminal from the 64th century, comes to Central City, stealing from numerous tech companies and killing two guards. Gypsy returns, in pursuit of Kadabra, to avenge her partner. Kadabra offers the team the identity of Savitar in exchange for his freedom. Watched on Kodi

Barry and team are surprised when Mon-El and Hank Henshaw arrive on their Earth carrying a comatose Supergirl who was whammied by the Music Meister. Unable to wake her up, they turn to Team Flash to save her. However, the Music Meister surprises The Flash and puts him in a similar coma, one that Team Flash can’t cure. Kara and Barry wake up without their powers in an alternate reality where life is like a musical and the only way to escape is by following the script, complete with singing and dancing, to the end. 

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“Now, however, it looks like the Netflix Disney film loss set for 2019 won’t impact Disney movies and television shows in international markets, including Canada, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. Disney content present on Netflix in Canada and international markets is held under separate deals.” Well that’s good news.

The more I read about Percona the more I like it. The backup utility, XtraBackup can take a hot backup which can be quickly restored when needed.

So what I was able to do was install Percona, which is a drop in replacement for mysql. They have packages for 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 available for Ubuntu 17.04. I installed version 5.5 and was able to bring up my database. From there I could upgrade to 5.6 and eventually mysql 5.7. However, somethings still were not working correctly, like emojis were not being stored correctly, so I attempted to fix that, and things broke again. I couldn't start the database and nothing I did seemed to help. Luckly, I made a backup of the data when I successfully had 5.5 running. I reverted everything back to 5.5 and have since upgraded to Percona 5.6. I'm staying here for now. Things appear to be stable and working.

Upgrade was a success, still can’t get mysql working. I’ve determined now though that the old version, 5.5 isn’t direclty upgradable to 5.7. I now need to figure out if I can do that, or do I try to restore into a 5.7 instance with backups?

Reboot time …

60% and nothing has blown up yet 🤞🏼

So, attempted to upgrade my server from Ubuntu 14.10 to 16.10. Everything seemingly went smoothly, except mysql. For some reason it didn't get upgraded. No big deal, I thought to myself, I'll just install it. Well, it turns out there's some sort of problem with mysql and Ubuntu 16.10. I Google'd and I Google'd, tried a bunch of different suggestions, nothing worked, mysql just wouldn't properly install. I'm now in the process of upgrading to Ubuntu 17.04. I looked through the release notes for 17.04 and there's no mention of any issues with mysql, so hopefully this will solve my problem. When there's no way back, you go through.

This is a pretty good idea.

Daenerys strikes back. Jaime faces an unexpected situation. Arya comes home. Watched on Plex

Daenerys holds court. Cersei returns a gift. Jaime learns from his mistakes. Watched on Plex

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