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I'm working on The Global Computer Employer Index. It's not very global yet but it's making steady progress.

If I upload the HTML file for Beaverton Oregon the W3C validator complains of an invalid </> tag - no opening tag.

If I look at that local copy with Cygwin's vim or with Notepad++ that end tag isn't there. It hasn't been there since I removed it with Notepad++.

If I look at it with Cygwin's less command or do a View Page Source in Chrome for Winderz that invalid end tag is there.

It took me about twenty minutes to clue into that there is some really bad caching problem going on.

I've seen this kind of thing with OS X' HFS+ too.

I scanned my drive for errors. None were found.

Just now I rebooted. Is it going to work for me this time?

Fortunately I have been religious about backups since my third hard drive failure. It would be mostly OK if I have to reformat and reinstall.

Chick-fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City

'Creepy' Chick-fil-A slammed by 'New Yorker' writer from Brooklyn

Chick-fil-A is known for being closed on Sundays and its involvement in the culture wars - against gay marriage (briefly). It is apparently close to becoming the third largest fast food franchise in the U.S., leads the industry in average sales per location, and requires a very small initial investment ($10,000) to open a franchise.

Do I have to do everything around here?

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FDA Launches Criminal Investigation Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research

By Marisa Taylor, Kaiser Health News

The Food and Drug Administration has launched a criminal investigation into research by a Southern Illinois University professor who injected people with his unauthorized herpes vaccine, Kaiser Health News has learned. SIU professor William Halford, who died in June, injected participants with his experimental herpes vaccine in St. Kitts and Nevis in 2016 and in Illinois hotel rooms in 2013 without safety oversight that is routinely performed by the FDA or an institutional review board.

According to four people with knowledge about the inquiry, the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations is looking into whether anyone from SIU or Halford’s former company, Rational Vaccines, violated FDA regulations by helping Halford conduct unauthorized research. The probe is also looking at anyone else outside the company or university who might have been complicit, according to the sources who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The FDA rarely prosecutes research violations, usually choosing to administratively sanction or ban researchers or companies from future clinical trials, legal experts said. Even so, the agency is empowered to pursue as a crime the unauthorized development of vaccines and drugs—and sometimes goes after such cases to send a message.

[...] Rational Vaccines was co-founded with Hollywood filmmaker Agustín Fernández III, and the company received millions of dollars in private investment from investors after the Caribbean trial, including from billionaire Peter Thiel. Thiel, who for months has refused to respond to questions from KHN, contributed to President Donald Trump’s campaign and is a high-profile critic of the FDA. Thiel is part of a larger libertarian movement to roll back FDA regulations to speed up medical innovation.

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

Full article licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Three people have sued Rational Vaccines over the experimental injections.

Also at STLtoday.com.

Previously: University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel

RIP @ArtBell51, one of our greatest showmen. He told the truth. About 911, about many things. Struck down at age 72 by unknown or undisclosed forces. Thoughts & prayers with Airyn Bell and the kids.

My final paycheck for the completion of my current project, as well as the ability to focus completely on my next client, just got a lot closer.

High Sierra - I think High Sierra's System Integrity Protection - clobbered the permissions on my log file, so my daemon couldn't write to it.

We don't really need that particular log file so I just removed it from my installer.

I think Apple has a bug in High Sierra, in that a completely fresh install - starting by erasing a volume - would clobber that permission.

But a non-fresh install such as installing on top of Sierra, or a - stale? - install that's been in use for a while led that log's permission to be what I wanted it to be.

The other part of the fix was to remove the "StandardOutputPath" from my launch agent's property list.

If there are no such paths then after forking launchd will close stdout before exec'ing my agent.

I've been tinkering with various B vitamins recently since discovering what seems to be an MTHFR polymorphism or six in my genome. It's just a guess, as I can't spare the money for testing, but the immediate positive effects I've felt from certain forms of certain vitamins all but confirms a) MTHFR SNPs and b) an over-methylation pattern. Which *sounds* paradoxical at first, but really isn't.

People tend to be a little flippant with vitamin C and the B-family since they're water-soluble, reasoning "eh, if I overdose all it means is I get really expensive and really yellow pee." Nooooot...exactly. That's not wrong, but the little buggers will do plenty else before they exit via the kidneys. Here's what I've noticed:

Niacin/B3 - Produces the famous "niacin flush," though much less pronounced than in the first week of taking. About 100-200mg daily. Supposedly there's no harm in taking small (10) integer multiples of this dose, even though 200mg is supposedly almost 2 weeks' worth. Calms me down immensely and helps me sleep. It's also supposed to be good for lowering cholesterol, which is well within normal limits for me, but every little bit helps. Overall definitely a positive.

Pyridoxine/B6 (as pyridoxal-5-phosphate) - Holy crap, this is bad for me. It makes me sleepy and weak and ravenously hungry, then incredibly angry after I eat. How angry? I scared off an almost seven foot tall, 300-pound-plus man at work today. He actually decided not to order because, and this is a direct quote, "Your body language. You're angry and it's scaring me." Now yes, I look pretty much like a six-foot, Caucasian version of my namesake in glasses, and yes, I've been nicknamed "Grumpy Cat" by three separate co-workers at three separate jobs, but that is *bad.* Not touching this one again, at least not before work. Seems to be amping up my metabolism and producing (a lot) more catecholamines such as adrenaline, which would explain the effects.

Folate (as 6(S)-5-methylfolate) - This is the big tell that I've got an MTHFR problem. I felt immediate relief within half an hour after my first dose. Makes me feel, somehow, wet and cool and "fluffy" inside. Not as calming as niacin but still helps, just in a different way. Good synergy. I'm taking this once every few days now, after having spent 2 weeks repleting myself with a daily dose. I don't seem to need anywhere near as much caffeine since starting this one either.

Cobalamin/B12 (as adenosylcobalamin) - Another one for the "nope" column, at least no more than once every two weeks. Has similar effects to B6, though produces more anxiety than outright hostility. I am guessing it's causing either too much glutamate in the brain or, like B6, possibly upregulating stress hormones.

Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid with bioflavanoids, e.g., rutin and quercetin) - I can't tell if this is having any effects, but it doesn't seem to hurt and is important for iron processing, which in turn is necessary during Shark Week. Taking daily seems not to hurt anything, and might have helped me fight off the last two incipient colds I got.

People need to treat these things with more respect. We get people saying "oh supplements don't work," but if that were the case, there's no way they'd be having such pronounced and immediate effects. And, it seems everyone's body is different and even their metabolisms differ from day to day, so in the end, everyone needs to tailor their supplements and the doses thereof to their own physiology. Overall this is a net positive for me, but I'm probably going to avoid the B6...

James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did -- until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and untruthful SLIME BALL who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst "botch jobs" of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!

AMD Ryzen 2nd Gen Details: Four CPUs, Pre-Order Today, Reviews on the 19th

These are not the 3rd-gen "Zen 2" 7nm Ryzen parts you are looking for, but 2nd-gen "Zen+" 12nm Ryzen.

No submission yet since there is no review.

Some chick just schedules a phone call with a mortgage company for tomorrow afternoon but gave them _my_ email address not hers.

I figure that a mortgage must be pretty important so I called the mortgage company then got as far as leaving a message that informed them that "mdcrawford@gmail.com is my email address, not hers". But I expect that will only confuse them.

Doubtlessly she will try another broker. I'll let you know after I am approved for a mortgage meant for her.

A certain Dr. Crawford is a transplant surgeon in Australia. Whenever someone particularly sick checks in the staff of that hospital is prompt and certain to let me know about it.

A TOTAL, UNPRESIDENTED WITCH HUNT!!! Attorney-client privilege is dead. They broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. Good man. And it's a disgraceful situation. I've wanted to keep it down: We’ve given, I believe, over a million pages worth of documents to the special counsel. They continue to just go forward and here we are talking about Syria. We're talking about a lot of serious things with the greatest fighting force ever. And I have this WITCH HUNT constantly going on for over 12 months now and actually much more than that. You could say it was right after I won the nomination instead. It makes the country look very bad. Can we call it treason? It puts the country in a very bad position, so the sooner it’s worked out, the better it is for the country. Why don't I just fire Mueller? Well I think it's a disgrace what's going on. We'll see what happens. There has been NO COLLUSION & NO OBSTRUCTION WHATSOEVER (except me fighting back). You fight back, oh, it’s "obstruction."