Travel
Peru Trip Overview
It's been a dream of Kat's to explore Peru and hike Machu Picchu for years now. Thanks to her influence it also became a dream of mine. Before we get started on the details, here's a link to the curated photos of our trip.
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Family
Wedding Photos
Kat and I had our wedding reception last year in August and we've finally sorted through the photos and picked a few of our favorites. Check out the link to the photographer page for Burns Wedding Photos.
Recipes
Mom's Christmas Cookies
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
Radiolab - Single Transferrable Vote
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
Ditching No-IP for DuckDNS
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
Hiking: New Hope Creek North
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
All Things Open 2018
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
Recipe - Alton Brown's Aged Eggnog
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
Things You Won't Learn on My LinkedIn Profile
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 Repair
Backhoe vs Internet
Fiber optics battle yet again with their arch nemesis the backhoe. Results are predictable. Whole neighborhood out.
Technology
Nutanix AHV Networking - What's New
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: