Goals

Next year I want to encourage my children to read the Bible through at least once. However, I found that most yearly Bible reading plans repeat reading the books of Psalms or Proverbs. Sure, that feature may make normal daily reading more enjoyable for adults, but extra reading is too much for children who have never read the Bible before. I wanted…

This past week I have been able to traverse down the rabbit hole of personal tech debt. After a week's work, I think I was able to get to the bottom and give everything an updated timestamp! All kidding aside, here were some of the projects I was able to revisit:

Kubernetes Cluster

My k8s cluster hosts websit…

With a year drawing to a close, I have a habit of looking back at my goals I set for myself, see how I have done, and set goals for the new year. My new year's resolution for 2017 will be 1920x1080 (same as last year). I wish I could upgrade it to 5k, but it will have to do for now.

In 2016, I set a goal to post to my blog every week - I met…

I began my Linux hobby in 1999. I was given a CD of RedHat Linux which I installed on an old computer. At first use, it was slow and buggy and uninstalled in favor of Windows 98. I installed Debian a few months later and discovered I could install a different desktop environment - KDE which looked like Windows, but was different. After playing with…

One of my hobbies is video gaming. In my teen years, I would spend on average of 60-80 hours a week playing either Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, or any other Valve software title. It was not until I went to college and got a job when my average went to 30-40 hours a week. After being married and having children, my average is now down to 8-12 ho…

I see a trend in system administration tasks moving toward the Ruby programming language. Yes, you can still code in Perl, Python, Shell, etc., but Ruby seems to be growing in popularity as a choice in scripting language. It should be - it is certainly easier to type and it has a big community to go with it. I was first introduced to Ruby in 2009 a…

The Linux Foundation is offering select courses at a discount until 7/31/16. Some offers are up to 55% off. You can also get an additional 10% off in check-out by using the code GSHOP. That brings the prices down to:

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