Way back in 2014 or so, a friend of mine asked me if I wanted some firewall stuff he had but wanted to get rid of. I said sure, and drove out to meet him and pick it up. So about 7 years later (wow, where has the time gone?!), I decided to break out […]

I’ve been reading /r/homelab lately and I’ve seen some questions come up about what kind of hardware to get and what software to run on that hardware. I wanted to deep dive a bit into what you should look for and what you should avoid. Ebay is a bit like the Wild West – you

Ignoring technology, 2020 was an absolutely horrible year. Things started to look up, but then COVID-19 happened. But one of the things I like to do at the end of year is to reflect back on the things that happened. Virtual Everything This was the year of virtual conferences and thank goodness for it! It

Update: August 28, 2021 – After Apple announced they would be scanning your photos on device for CSAM content, Apple lied to us all and is spying on you. I am leaving this article here, however. Just beware, I don’t recommend that you use Apple products. They are spyware. Yesterday, November 12, 2020, Apple released

For my web hosting business, I needed to have a real email service for my email. cPanel’s webmail just wasn’t cutting it especially since legacy IMAP can reveal things about you, like your local IP address. So I decided to switch to Google Workspace since with Gmail you can do split delivery. You can’t do

I’ve been interested in aircraft since 2014 mainly since my job at the time had me flying all over the country. I learned to identify aircraft simply by looking at them and who originally registered an aircraft by its N-number (in the US, the FAA issues N-numbers for the life of the aircraft while it’s

It seems that every so often, I start a blog, I shut it down, I stop writing, or whatever. The big thing is that I am a very private person. I don’t like to share more than I need to and so I do a lot of internal blogging, but not so much public blogging.