Website maintenance

It surprises me how common it is for a website to be wholly unavailable for, at the least, many hours, while being upgraded or otherwise improved. Surely it's often not too hard, perhaps with the help of temporary redirects, to offer a read-only view of the previous site in the interim? The new site may be great but even the old site is probably significantly better than no site at all at the time that one actually needs to use it.

Radio annoyances

This morning on the radio I heard an interview with a lady who was advocating a particular political policy view and some of her arguments were so fallacious that I was intrigued to actually find it less annoying to listen to commercial advertisements on a different station, which included another lady inviting us to identify with the hassle of having to replace one's kitchen every few years. I might have been more receptive to the first lady's arguments had her efforts to persuade put less strain on facts and logic: I find that the taint of the bad arguments spreads to any good ones hidden among them as the credibility of the source is damaged.

Addendum on schools

Further to my previous cut, school isn't an intensive educational experience, it now turns out that Miranda has now completed all the mathematics that they are permitted to teach her in primary school. She may still do mathematical things, of course, they just can't teach her anything further. I guess at least they let her go at her own pace while they could.