A collection of photographs of Missouri trees and shrubs surrounding Rachel’s prairie, a one acre patch of ground with a pond. Even though the focus of this journal is on a prairie, I have to concede that the life I witness on the prairie is framed by the trees and shrubs that surround it. While…
A Loss of Will – The Exodus of Retail Businesses from Cities
It is a law of economics that supply is the ability and will to provide a good or service to the marketplace. What we are seeing recently is the loss of will as businesses are abandoning many of our large cities. It is a law of economics that supply is the ability and will to…
Diagnosing DOGE: Purge of the Probies
Who are the probationary workers that were fired? Why? And why are they being hired back? I have been laid-off only once in my professional career. It was no surprise. I was a grain trader for a large Midwest cooperative and they had decided to close down the grain division. So I saw this was…
Diagnosing DOGE: Bullet Points
What is a retired federal employee’s take on the request from DOGE to submit five bullet points? The Department on Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently stirred up considerable controversy when it used the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send e-mails to all government employees demanding that they list five things they accomplished during the week….
The Mystery of 52.225.23.15
Can somebody explain a brute force attack from a Microsoft IP address? Websites are easy targets for various network attacks simply because they are available to the public. What protects a website from being “hacked” is a rather thin veneer of passwords, strengthened by a range of firewall measures. WordPress, a popular platform on which…