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...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleNever 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...
View ArticleCool 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...
View ArticleProject 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...
View ArticleWhy 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
View ArticleProject 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...
View ArticleGreat 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
View ArticleAdding 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/
View ArticleLatest 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...
View ArticleMovie 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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleSubscription 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...
View ArticleFirst 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...
View Article2012 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleShadowman 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:
View ArticlePuck 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...
View ArticleMortal 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...
View ArticleFace 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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