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I survived the 30 day plank challenge
November's a pretty hard month for me emotionally, so I figured, may as well put my body through a little hell too! On November 1st, 2016 my daughter and I set out on a 30 day planking challenge. The challenge [...]
Striking while the iron is hot
Right now I'm sitting in Mexico, enjoying great weather, greats friends and some great sips. Yesterday was fairly hectic with an early flight, a bit of a layover and quite the drive to get to our house for the week [...]
$10 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail
Yes, Linode announced a $5 plan. You can check out the $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Vultr Yes #2, Linode made some changes to their $10 plan, increasing the storage a bit and kicking up their network [...]
My 2017 Goals
Without goals, we are aimless. I thought I had come up with a great opening line for this post only to find out that it's actually a quote from a book I have never read. Thanks Google ;) My [...]
A day without food
This past weekend I set out to do a water fast. The plan was to go from Friday evening to Sunday evening. A full 48 hours. Why? No real health reasons, and definitely not to see if I could lose [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 5: The Conclusion
If you're like me, you enjoy the journey more than the destination. If you're just tuning in, you should probably catch up. Part 1: The Motive Part 2: The Distro Part 3: The Desktop Environment Part 4: The Development Environment [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 4: The Development Environment
New around here? You may want to catch up: Part 1: The Motive Part 2: The Distro Part 3: The Desktop Environment Before switching to OS X, I was running Ubuntu codename whatever and had my local system built out [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 3: The Desktop Environment
In case you missed it, here's the story thus far: Part 1: The Motive Part 2: The Distro Before I discuss my current desktop environment, let's rewind to 2012 before I had switched to OS X. At the time, I [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 2: The Distro
In case you need to catch up, here's the story thus far: Part 1: The Motive Caught up? Solid. Okay so at this point I have been running Linux again full-time for two weeks. There have been moments of needing [...]
Switching from Mac OS X back to Linux, Part 1: The Motive
This post is half a decade in the making. On June 15th, 2012 I took the plunge and switched from Linux to Mac OS X. 1,585 days later, I am writing to let you know that I have seen the [...]