Welcome to the new server, same as the old server (hopefully). Migration has completed to the new set-up, but it should all look exactly the same to anyone reading. I lost one post in the process, but since that was just about starting serving migration, that’s no big deal. If you encounter any site issues, particular around comments, then please let me know. I think I’ve got everything configured correctly but it’s hard to be 100% sure.
As an aside, I think it’s amazing any of this stuff ever works at all. If you’re just browsing the web it all seems pretty solid, but under the covers there’s a hell of a lot of duct tape and bailing twine. This site runs on top of WordPress, which is a fairly complex piece of software. On top of that is a bunch of plugins, themes and widgets, all written by different people. WordPress itself is built on a bunch of other software products, like Apache, PHP, SQL, Perl, etc. A lot of those have their own plugins and customized tools, along with the UI that allows them to be configured. Underneath it all is the server itself (running a flavor of Linux) along with the various internet technologies like DNS, SSL, TCP, etc. that lets everything talk together. Everyone of these critical pieces is available in different versions, and almost every website you visit will be running all of them in some different combination of versions. Yet it incredibly all works, as shown by the fact your reading this.
The internet is arguable mankinds greatest achievement and certainly its most complex machine. The software that delivers this post to the screen of a smartphone has thousands of PhDs and millions of man hours of development behind it. And yet, here’s me using it to deliver sexy pictures of kinky people. I can’t think of a better use for all that time and effort.
I believe this particular sexy picture is of Skin Diamond shooting for Divine Bitches.
Looks good, congrats (I know how fraught it is) :)).
Ferns
Thanks Ferns! I’m still finding a few glitches, but fingers crossed nothing has caught fire (too badly!) yet.
-paltego
Hey Paltego – your headline reminds me of the lyric ‘shiny, shiny, shiny piece of leather’ from the song Venus in furs, written and performed by the velvet underground of course. Clearly celebrating a certain infamous book…
But, point behind my taking the time to ping you is I thought you might find the following story of interest
https://www.insidehook.com/article/history/violent-literary-history-cuck-cuckold?eid=d4779a3cc2a6988b75e43246e99739fd&utm_source=InsideHook&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nation
Take care…
That was definitely not a conscious connection in the headline. I had a bit of a ‘Who’ theme in the opening line, but hadn’t thought about that velvet underground track. Maybe my subconscious was on the case 🙂
Interesting link. Thanks for sharing that. I might have to feature that in a future post.
Cheers,
-paltego
Congrats and thanks for the migration to the new server. Glad it has gone well (so far).
Love that picture! I love pictures that make people think, “What happened next?” I can think of several possibilities here, with one outcome being especially good for the bound sub lying on the floor. OMG!!!
Celeste
Thanks. So far, no burning servers. Fingers crossed.
It is a great picture. I was waiting for a post I could squeeze it into. Many lovely possibilities on how it might unfold!
-paltego