IT Superhero. I like to learn things, write them down, and occasionally share with others.
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To improve privacy and security HTTPS should be used everywhere. It SHOULD be the default option. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case. Even worse, you have no idea what the browser is doing behind your back. For instance – this site you’re reading now is going off and contacting
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Since I have a BitCoin Wallet now I figure I should probably have an encrypted offline storage mechanism for all the keys and the wallet file itself. If best practices have been followed then your Wallet is password protected already, but let’s go ONE MORE step and encrypt them
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I realized I’ve been seriously neglecting my blog. Mike Rundle (@flyosity) posted a quick link to Barley showing they had Word Press support. I watched the video and was pretty impressed. WYSIWYG editing for a blog. I just GO to the site and can start typing into the web
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Project #1 Today: BitCoin Today’s first item on the agenda was to figure out how BitCoin works and then invest some money into the thing. I had thought that anonymity was a cool part of BitCoin but it looks like if you ALSO want the convenience of sitting in
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Work has been insane lately. Big projects all happening at the same time and things going wrong unexpectedly. I’m writing because I finally have a 4 day break from work. 4 days is just long enough to stop thinking about all the stressful things I’m confronted with during
Music
Fell in love with a new song. Thought I'd share: I think I'll print it in the personals that I'm looking for a match. Someone to light me up. Someone to burn the proof of the things that I've done. -Bright Eyes
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This morning around 8:10AM I was checking the news, traffic, and weather before making the trip into work. Out of nowhere I heard a huge thud and immediately went to look out on the street for the car crash I knew must have happened. It shook my chair and
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I decided to make it a 4 day weekend for Memorial day on the Tuesday before the weekend started. I checked my family's availability for Saturday, booked tickets for a zip line tour in Florida, took Friday off, then drove down to Florida on Friday. I had a
Friends
I've been on a few snowboard trips this season. 1. New Years - Vail 2. January Colorado Redux - Copper and Winter Park 3. March - Snowhoe with a giant group 4. Late March - Wintergreen for an unexpected snow day Vail was a great trip (but we
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Heather decided we should hang out at the Farmer's Market. I'm totally cool with this because it means breakfast followed by the purchase of fresh eggs. I realized I have the same problem at the Farmer's Market as I do in major MMOs or
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I decided to take Wes up on some of our prior conversations where we talked about hiking around various NC mountain spots. We took a Saturday and spent it at Pilot Mountain hiking for about 9 miles. This was an excellent trip and I'm glad we decided to
Projects
I had a serious issue after updating my blog to the Word Press 2012 Theme. The font looked like CRAP on my home PC and my Work Laptop. Doing a little bit of research on the new Open Sans Font I learned I needed to go to: Control Panel >