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Birthday Skydiving

When Jenny was a youngling, she read a National Geographic Magazine that talked about indor skydiving. This month was Jenny’s birthday, and when I was talking to some friends they mentioned an Indoor...

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Do you have a Bomber?

A few years ago, we decided to try boating. We purchased an old (1988) Bomber Commander off of craigslist. We have had fun, but it is a boat so it needs to be fixed. Dont worry.. I have heard all the...

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Never have I appreciated RPMS more

Dinner is over, and my wife is out picking up our son from basketball tryouts (he did not make it.. bummer). I tell my daughter that I have a surprise. You see.. we have just gotten a new Garmin and it...

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Cool tech.. and you should tour your home town.

For our anniversary, my wife organized a tour of down town Raleigh. The cool this was that it was on a Segway with Triangle Segway. We went into this thinking how great it would be to try out the...

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Project Candlepin

At work we have been doing alot of development around Software Subscriptions, and how to represent them to a machine as a collection of Entitlements (what a machine is entitled to have or do). It is a...

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Why Phone Books

We started to get this years roung of phone books. I dont know who uses them any more. Here is my message: Please note, the second image is the recycle bin

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Project Katello: Open Source System Management

As a followup to the Candlepin Post.. we have just opened up the larger project for Open Source Systems Management. The project is called Katello. The name rhymes with Jello, so that should help. The...

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Great Summary of Using Foreman

This came across today, great summary of setting up and using The Foreman. http://engineering.yakaz.com/managing-an-infrastructure-datacenter-with-foreman-and-puppet.html

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Adding Search to Rails Apps

Good blog artcile on adding search to rails apps. Used in Foreman, soon to be used in Katello and Headpin. http://scopedsearch.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/adding-search-to-an-activerecord-rails-model/

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Latest Release of Candlepin

We continue to use Scrum at work, and it is working very well. The team is able to work very independently, and very quickly. We continue to roll out new features every three weeks. Version 0.4.11 is...

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Movie article missing the point

This morning I read an article that discussed how movie ticket prices are going up but revenue is going down. In the afternoon, we went to a matinee showing of Hugo. The day proved how much the article...

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Using YourKit Profiles on Fedora with Tomcat as an RPM

We use YourKit at work, and it is a pretty good profiles which runs on Linux. All of the instructions I saw talk about how to integrate with Tomcat if you have the tarball install. We install with the...

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Subscription Asset Manager

Red Hat has just released a beta version of Subscription Asset Manager. It is a new tool which is available with your subscription. The tool allows you to do on premise Subscription Management. You can...

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First Try at Boat Detailing

Last season was our first season with the new boat. The boat was new to us so there is a bunch of fix fix it up work that needed to get done. When the boat was being winterized, I asked about having it...

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2012 Stereo Build

My parents got me some new speakers for the boat for Christmas. The speakers are Infinity 612m’s which have a blue cone which would look great with the boat. In doing some research, I was told that I...

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New Bimini Top

The big ticket item for this year was a new bimini. Jenny really wanted one so that we could stay out on the boat longer during the summer months without getting burned. I was all for it as it would...

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Shadowman in Lego

After 2 Brick Magic lego conventions, and a few orders from Brink Link I finally finished a small Shadowman Lego picture. Not too bad for a first time out:

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Puck vs. Pinky, Guess who won?

During a hockey double header game on Sunday (which the Chiefs split 1-1, and which I scored one goal at) a hockey puck hit my pinky finger on my left hand. Below is what the doctor saw: So, after 40...

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Mortal Sins for Donuts

Warning…. humor follows: My kids go to a parochial school. On the way home, my daughter tells me a story. “Dad”, she says, “I was walking by the office on the way to safety patrol. I saw Sister, and...

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Face to Face in a Distributed Team

At work, we have a pretty distributed team. There are team members across the US, in Canada, the UK, the Czech Republic, and Israel. Even though we are spread out, the team interacts very well: There...

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