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  • PowerShell Fun: MX and SPF Lookup

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    I don’t talk about work very often here, mainly because there’s not much to talk about. Every day’s a mix of new challenges and the same old song & dance… and the dance usually involves backups, somehow.

    Today, though, I dug in on a request to at least partially automate the task of retrieving and storing certain information about email domains in our client base. What better way to do that then with some PowerShell tinkering?

    (Don’t answer that question. I know there are better ways, for various values of “better.” PS is the toolkit I need to use for work-specific reasons, let’s leave it at that, shall we? Play nice.)

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  • The House In The Heat

    Now that we’ve had our first taste of summer (in [cuss]ing early May, mind you) I can report back that the new house should work out okay for the hot weather. We got into the vicinity of 90F according to the outside sensor and the HVAC was able to keep even the west-facing upstairs office space with the powerful heater (aka “my computer”) quite bearable.

    Given that this was one of my biggest worries moving into this place, I am quite relieved. Of course all bets are off once we clear 100F, which is nigh-inevitable in this new modern era, but we’ll fight that battle when we come to it.

  • General Catch-Up: Early May 2024

    As we’re still in recovery from the move (which isn’t truly over since there’s still boxes and piles of stuff in various parts of the house), here’s a few bullet points of “how I’m doing at this point of my life”:

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  • Satisfactory – Phactory Phase 3

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    I sent the Phase 3 materials shipment up the Space Elevator a few play sessions ago. So, how has my overall approach to this new save (the “New Clear Plan”) gone so far?

    In short: A qualified success.

    There’s a neat light show when you send the Space Elevator up, but capturing the best single instant in a screenshot is too tricky for my skills.

    In long: Well, let’s dig into that…

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  • That Which Was VAST

    I’m on record, no pun intended, as stating that VAST’s debut release, Visual Audio Sensory Theater, is one of my favorites of all time. It was the right album at the right time with the right density & mixture of sounds, and I still love it.

    My relationship with everything that’s come afterward is weirder.

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  • All Out, Finally

    It’s the end of an era: We handed in the keys to the apartment after several hours spent taking care of the final round of sweeping and scrubbing and what-have-you. Heck, we even replaced the drip trays on the electric stove.

    Technically, the move is over. Of course, in practical terms, it just means we can really hunker down on the unboxing. On the upside this should mean that I can start doing stuff that isn’t Work, Eat, Sleep, Deal With Moving Tasks, Play Game To Unwind. We’ll see?

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