This pic is from 2010 and still makes me chuckle.
Flash redefined
My cat is leading a secret double life.
how tell auditd to not log splunk entires?
in audit.rules add
-a exit,never -F path=/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunkd -k splunk_exclude
and auditd should no longer log every splunk action as root.
Because Kittens are cute
and ones that like Chianti are even cuter. 
Adventures in migrating a personal server.
It’s been an adventure the last few months. As I stole a few minutes here and a few there, I eventually had built a vps server and migrated to it. It’s serving this blog to you right now and it’s handling my email. It’s was a fun little project. Being a sys admin most of it is stuff I do regularly for work. But in such a broad field there are always new things to learn that I haven’t had to do for work before. Continue reading
SmugMug’s updated pricing management
Some months ago SmugMug rolled out their new pricing management tool It was by all measures a giant improvement, One’s ability to create schemes and mange them is much nicer and easier. But does it hit the home run? Nah, it is missing some pieces that could help it go from good to great! Some of them are very simple, others would take a lot more work. Continue reading
Looks like they have a new passenger
From two different pictures or were they? 
Austin Texas 2012
Went to Austin for a friends wedding an snapped some pics along the way.
Rochester Republicans make it on Colbert…
Don’t know why I ever admit to having actually grown up there. At least Colbert takes these morons to task.