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Texas Ski Ranch

Texas Ski Ranch

To say I love my job would be an understatement. The company gives each team a quarterly budget to do a team outing. This quarter our team went to the Texas Ski Ranch for wakeboarding and paintballing. I had driven by the Ranch multiple times on my way to the

Try Harder - The Journey To My OSCP

Try Harder - The Journey To My OSCP

I tried harder and the effort paid off, I am now officially an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) The journey was arduous but well worth it and I learned a TON! Pre-Registration I am lucky enough to work with one OSCP and another friend who was gonig through the labs

ROADTRIP! (San Antonio - Omaha)

ROADTRIP! (San Antonio - Omaha)

2 Days 989 Miles 17 Hours in the car 1 Baby 2 Dogs 2 Exhausted parents Lots of pictures We spent the last two days making our way from San Antonio to Omaha. Luckily this was not our baby's first road trip (he got to go on a

2010 Acura RDX 'A14' Service (Plus Brakes)

2010 Acura RDX 'A14' Service (Plus Brakes)

My wife's car just rolled over 100K miles!!! Woohoo! This is the first 'A14' service the car has needed. 'A14' includes: * Oil change (no filter) * Replace spark plugs * Adjust the valves (only if they are noisy) * Brake fluid flush (3 year interval) The steps

Updating Confluence to Do Inline Code Highlighting

Updating Confluence to Do Inline Code Highlighting

So Confluence 6 supports two forms of code highlighting: * In line code formatting via the {{code}} syntax that formats the code in monospace but is not highlighted (transparent background) * A 'code block' that can be inserted with the {code} tag Unfortunately I have gotten used to (and enjoy)

Confluence Server With NGINX Reverse Proxy

Confluence Server With NGINX Reverse Proxy

It has been a while since my last post but I finally have something worthy of sharing...how to set up Confluence Server using the same reverse proxy as my Ghost installation. If you are curious about that process, you can see it here. As I got started working through

New Plane...New Airport

New Plane...New Airport

I stumbled upon a new plane rental opportunity a few weeks ago and was finally able to go and fly the plane. The gentlemen who is renting the plane originally had it listed on OpenAirplane (how I found it in the first place) and I had been trying to get

#TryPod - March Is Podcast Month

#TryPod - March Is Podcast Month

I'm really not sure if March is officially Podcast Awareness Month but all the podcasts I listen to have been asking listeners to use the hashtag #TryPod and to try to get at least one person they know to listen to a podcast and perhaps get indoctrinated into

Commercial Drone Pilot

Commercial Drone Pilot

Drones are making quite the statement these days with awesome adventure video footage, real estate videos, using sensors to map terrain and detect environmental contaminants around oil fields, and perhaps eventually, delivering your Amazon Prime packages. What most folks don't realize is that the FAA considers drones to

Home Built Weather and Air Traffic Reciever (Stratux)

Home Built Weather and Air Traffic Reciever (Stratux)

I was finally able to get out and fly this weekend to test out my newest toy...an ADS-B IN receiver built from a Raspberry Pi. Now that I have tested it and have a nice screenshot of the info is provides (proof or it didn't happen right?

2010 Acura RDX 'B13' Service

2010 Acura RDX 'B13' Service

This post got a little long, sorry. I have always been extremely appreciative of folks who have taken time to write or record the steps they took to do different services or maintenance on their vehicles. Their contributions have helped me become somewhat of a "shade tree mechanic"

Adoption Profile

As part of our adoption journey we are doing an adoption profile that will be given to birth mothers along with other families who are seeking a child. The birth mother(s) will then choose the family they want their child to be raised by based in part on this

The Journey To My Private Pilot License

The Journey To My Private Pilot License

I finally received the permanent and plastic version of my Private Pilot Certificate in the mail this week after completing my checkride on 11 November. Seemed like this would be good time to document my journey from beginning to end. Becoming a Pilot I think I have wanted to be

SANS Holiday Hacking Challenge

SANS Holiday Hacking Challenge

I was very excited to hear about this year's SANS Holiday Hack Challenge from a coworker. These challenges are a lot of fun and always a great way to learn some new skills. I have attempted a few such challenges in the past, but this is the first

Installing Ghost *OR* Why Every Site Should Be Encrypted

Installing Ghost OR Why Every Site Should Be Encrypted

I have been wanting to do a blog for a while for multiple reasons. 1. I a $200 hosting credit from work to do whatever I want with. 2. I enjoy writing and want an outlet to do a bit from time to time. 3. I think my opinion matters

Rackspace/Crossfit 8808 Snow Brawl 2016

Rackspace/Crossfit 8808 Snow Brawl 2016

Well I did my first Crossfit competition in probably over a year this past weekend. It was hosted at Crossfit 8808, which is the awesome gym that we have at Rackspace. The competition was extremely well run and the workouts were deceptively hard despite their show duration. The competition was