Category Archives: Tech

Introducing oddball

By | December 21, 2011

Oddball and I go way back. He and I ran in the same circles in high school, and we think we might have run into each other back then. We really started hanging out about 7 years ago when I moved back to Nashville and started getting involved with a local group of geeks. When… Read More »

Testing twitter

By | December 2, 2011

I just signed up for a twitter account and used some wordpress plugin to automagically move posts to twitter. Let’s see if that works. Update: nope How bout now? Bueller? Still nothing?

Stop ignoring the Java Update

By | November 30, 2011

You know that little box that pops up, like, every day that says “There is an update for Java available?” You need to go ahead and update that. Like, right now. There is a serious vulnerability that doesn’t care if you’re a Mac, PC, Linux, or UNIX user. The vulnerability being out there is one… Read More »

Well crap

By | November 29, 2011

My 5 year old SIM card just died, and the AT&T stores closed like an hour ago. So me and my grandfathered unlimited data plan are going to try to get a new one tomorrow.

What’s your backup strategy?

By | November 16, 2011

Work laptop just had a hard drive failure. Not easily recovered, and the company doesn’t automatically back up workstations. Lucky for me I started doing backups a couple of months ago.  I did a convoluted system that involved rsync, ssh tunnels, and cygwin, and now I’m glad I did.

The failure of gun control

By | November 7, 2011

Good thing we have the NFA and the Hughes Amendment to keep criminals from having machine guns. I mean, it’s not like some teenager can build an open bolt, mag fed automatic airgun that shoots AA batteries with enough muzzle energy to maim or kill you. And he made it out of PVC and a… Read More »