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Veterans get some military exchange benefits
Nice news for veterans: DoD will allow all honorably discharged veterans to shop at the online military exchange stores starting this Veterans' Day... PX/BX/NEX pricing may have a tough time comparing to online internet pricing these days - but the tax-free aspect may appeal in some states ( Read more... ) -
Career Change
Friday, March 31st, was my last day at a job I have absolutely loved for three amazing years. Cvent is a great place to work, and they will have an opening for a Linux/Windows systems engineer. I highly recommend this position with a great team and many excellent learning opportunities in a truly integrated DevOps environment. It is with some ( Read more... ) -
No wonder American voters are so poorly informed
I am usually very lucky to mostly be sheltered in a wonderful cocoon that is essentially free of commercial television. When I travel I get disgusted at the number of places that have the propaganda, sensationalist, and fake news channel Fox News on and blaring loud all the time. I don't get that crap at home, nor any of my usual places I do ( Read more... ) -
A personal message about the importance of backing up your data
Woo hoo! Time Machine to the rescue ( Read more... ) -
Microsoft Surface Studio, impressive!
Microsoft announced a new desktop computer yesterday, and I confess I usually am in the habit of ignoring Microsoft announcements because they typically offer nothing I am interested in; but yesterday's announcement is stunning and ground breaking. The new Surface Studio is the first Microsoft product I actually want since Photosynth launched in ( Read more... ) -
Firefox 49.0.2 update - beware...
So apparently the new Firefox update (49.0.2) overwrites your cert8.db file - for many people that does not matter; but if you have a lot of self-signed certs and internal to your company certificates to trust this is a catastrophe unless you backed up your cert8.db or can get another from your corporate IT folks ( Read more... ) -
The importance of good examples in coding and configuration files
My employer has chosen to use DataDog for some of it's monitoring, and I have been having a really hard time getting simple process monitoring to work reliably. Turns out that the process.yaml file syntax used by DataDog agents is very dependent on Python language psutil calls, and there is quite a difference between single quotes (used in Datadog ( Read more... ) -
3rd generation Ford Focus owner/driver tips
Ford Focus, DCT transmission anomalies explained, and some useful information for 3rd generation Ford Focus owners/drivers.
We've been reading loads of useful information and tips at: http://www.focusfanatics.com/
In particular - this posting makes a a LOT of sense: Leave a commentTrump, the GOP, and The Fall
This is absolutely brilliantly written and worded; and expresses exactly my feelings on the current election and self-destruction of the Republican party... I confess I never know if I should cheer on that self-destruction, or lament the loss of a reasonable and rational counterpoint to the Democratic party, which does need a healthy check against ( Read more... )Trumpster fire
"Trumpster fire" - John Gruber knocks it out of the park again with my favorite phrase of the week when he compares the Republican National Convention to a "Trumpster fire" - awesomely apt description ( Read more... )