Categories: Random

• Beard Me!

  Head over to http://thatjoshguy.com/beardme and cast your vote. As soon as the forest of facial hair is lush enough to support it I’ll grab the razor and sport the style with the highest votes.

• Wake up and smell the USDA & FDA approved coffee…

  This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power “monopoly” regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, [...]

• New Healthcare Bill: Summary

  I usually stay out of politics, but as this affects everyone I thought I’d contribute.  Here is a summary of what the newly passed health care bill will mean to you (courtesy of Reuters): // // // // WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives is heading for a Sunday vote on a sweeping overhaul of the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system. House Democrats are confident they can overcome solid Republican opposition and pass the bill. Leaders [...]

• PDF to EPUB (or any other eBook format)

  So i’ve come across a large collection of ebooks in PDF format (I won’t say from where) which is awsome, except for one thing. There is not an ebook reader in the world (besides Adobe Digital Editions, but meh…) that reads PDFs. So I sat about on a journey to find a decent way to convert PDF to the popular EPUB format. Why epub and not something else like amazon kindle’s mobi format? Because, I have an iPhone, and iphone [...]

• Firewalls for dummies

  Word to the wise folks. When you’re installing a firewall on your server due to mysterious login attempts, make sure that you know what IPs you’re blocking. I ended up driving out to where my server is colocated at 8pm last night because my server wasn’t reaponding. I had recently installed APF (advanced policy firewall) and BFD (brute force detection) and wad confident in it’s functionality. Note: I installed and tested it while away from home. Geeky stuff: APF is [...]