Creeping along...

"Creep" is an awful enough word in itself without tacking a modifier onto its front end, but three related alternatives—mission creep, function creep, and scope creep—all pretty much refer to some thing (a system, technology, mission, etc.) growing beyond its original scope.

As in the case of my poor l'il nameless Raspberry Pi, which has been running ownCloud, and which now is also running Dokuwiki (my wiki) and Bamboo Invoice (my invoicing method).

And as long as it's not trying to run them all at the same time—which can't happen, as I'm the only user—the board's performance remains pretty good, actually.

I tried getting Ampache running earlier, and succeeded in setting things up on the Pi, but I cannot find any reliable information on how to populate the Ampache database, and since my inbox is starting to see some action (five jobs arrived, two already sent back, with one of the remaining three looking like it'll require two full days to complete), that particular task has been put on the back burner for now.

Apropos of setting things up, I sent a dwonloaded Dokuwiki upgrade into my local cloud, from where I was able to get at it from the Pi and install it, which ought to count as the first "non-experimental" use of the cloud application since I started using it a little while back.

The skies over Houston continue to be cloudy, and the environment has been wet and cold.

Cheers...

ISON odds...

I had been getting up before dawn some days ago to see if the sky was clear, with the idea that if it was, I might venture out to see what I could see of comet ISON as it approached the sun. As the sky has pretty much been socked in every time I did this, I stopped getting up early, but that's a personal problem.

A report on the tube describes ISON as your usual dirty snowball, about 3 miles across (if memory serves, though it almost certainly is less than that now), that may provide quite a show should it survive its flyby of the Sun at an altitude of about 725,000 miles. I figure if the poor thing is fully 3 miles in diameter, it better be going like the proverbial bat, squared and cubed, if any part of it is to make it much past perihelion.

Nobody I can find is laying odds. I wonder what the wags in Vegas think?