IT Superhero. I like to learn things, write them down, and occasionally share with others.
Recipes
Here is a Christmas cookie recipe that's been passed down for a few generations. I'm assuming my mom got this one from my great grandmother. These cookies wind up being soft and delicious. They're rolled out and easily cut into all sorts of fun
Politics
This morning I've had my mind blown, listening to Podcasts on the drive in to work. You should listen to Radiolab's Tweak the Vote podcast on ranked choice voting, or "Single Transferrable Vote". I heard about California's idea for ranked choice voting
Technology
I've been using dynamic IP address services from no-ip.com for a long time to give a DNS name to my dynamic home IP. I remember having a no-ip.com address in college around the early 2000s for my dorm, then apartment, computer. I went through a hiatus
Hiking
The adventure on tap for today was to find a hiking trail that was close to home that we haven't hiked before. We're lucky in the Durham area to be so close to Duke Forest and the Eno river. After a bit of online searching with
Technology
Last week I attended the All Things Open conference in Raleigh. This is a conference dedicated to Open Source Software, which is very different from the usual vendor led conferences I attend. It was also unusual to commute to a conference in the morning and then back home at night.
Recipes
Alton Brown's Aged Eggnog This is a great tasting, boozy eggnog recipe worth saving and worth making year after year. We've let this one age up to 3 months with great results. Our secret has been re-purposing beer growlers (glass jugs) to age the nog. I&
Family
I had to do a little introduction exercise when I moved over to the marketing team as a Tech Marketing Engineer. I had to share some things you wouldn't learn on my LinkedIn Profile with the team. I thought it was fun to walk through and worth reposting
Fiber optics battle yet again with their arch nemesis the backhoe. Results are predictable. Whole neighborhood out.
Technology
We just made a bunch of announcements about networking enhancements to AHV, and I'll be posting about them at Nutanix.com. Here's an overview of the series: Part 1: AHV Network Visualization Part 2: AHV Network Automation and Integration Part 3: AHV Network Microsegmentation Part 4:
Technology
Let's Encrypt was really easy to setup, but Cron was less so. I kept getting emails that the Let's Encrypt renewal was failing: 2017-03-09 02:51:02,285:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/bbbburns.com.conf produced an unexpected error:
Technology
I recently saw a news article about StartCom being on Mozilla and Google's naughty list. Things looked bad, and my StartCom certs were up for renewal on the blog. I have seen articles flying around about Let's Encrypt for a while now. The idea seemed awesome,