So, I just finished Mafia: The Old Country. As a story, it's an amazing production, and in comparison to Mafia 1 and 2, it follows the concept very well. And, it's beautiful. It has some of the best acting and voice acting of any game ever, and it's quite a masterpiece.

However, as a game, it's not that interesting because it's entirely linear. Nothing matters; there is no strategy, no planning, nothing. No matter what you do, it has no effect. And, it's lazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtLTi0koGE

I have a rule on my site, and that rule is 'no external files' on load. Here is my front page, and as you can see, it loads nothing from any external site.

There is an exception to this, and that exception is that when you want to subscribe, the subscription system is using Stripe, so in those cases, it has to load the Stripe script to create the checkout form.

I asked a good friend of mine, who is a bit of a cycling expert, about my exercise bike setup... and his conclusion was: "Your setup doesn’t make sense; your power transfer is quite poor – it needs to be moved much further forward." :)

However, I also have the wrong saddle (it doesn't fit my sit bones, which is the main reason why I cannot get it to work the way I want to. So, new saddle it is...

What the actual... Yesterday, Google's image search bot went completely haywire, and for about 30 minutes kept mass requesting the same images over and over again. Some of the images were requested 890 times.

In total, it downloaded 389 MB of data. My server can, of course, handle this with no problems. But still... what the heck Google?

Okay... so I was expecting two packages today (with GLS), and ... well... first they showed up in a very banged up delivery van. Then they gave me one package, which was not to me, but addressed to a completely different person, on a completely different address, in another city. Then, I asked about the other package, and it turns out that they had delivered that to a wrong address to instead of to me.

Yeah... not good!

What... "ERROR 2006 (HY000) at line 49: Server has gone away"

You can't just walk out on me!!