I’ve been playing WoW since vanilla version starting in 2006.  Except for a six-month hiatus in late 2011, I’ve been a daily player.  I’ve seen multiple patches come and go, some good,...

I like eating a good breakfast, usually around lunchtime once I’ve had my fill of coffee and am awake enough to appreciate a good breakfast. This is my recipe for my ultimate breakfast burrito –...

Sometimes, when you’re wallowing through your abstraction class layers, you find yourself using code for simple functions that are normally the focus of an Intro to Programming class.  The problem...

After I changed my laptop to a static IP configuration to support mongo clustering on my local network, I was having problems with my network manager indicator in the Unity task bar showing my wired network...

Admittedly, it’s been a long, long time since I’ve had to do a fresh install of mongodb…I am in the process of setting up a couple of mongo servers behind my firewall to use for cluster...

Sorry this blog has been inactive for so long but I’ve been really, really busy with work, and my move to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico in northern BC. I am thinking about putting together a series of posts...

I’m working on a project where I am converting an established REST API over to a rabbitMQ service.  Because, you know, dinosaur, I’m continuing to use PHP as my language of choice for both...

One of the things that requires some tweaking after the installation of Mac OS X (Mountain Lion) is Tunnelblick, a free and open-source GUI for openVPN.  I use Tunnelblick for work and play so it’s...

I’ve just upgraded my iMac to OS X Mountain Lion and, as with all OS upgrades, I need to tweak a few things, update some packages say goodbye to others.  This got me thinking:  What are the apps...

I have a WD USB 3.0 500gb hard drive for my work laptop who’s sole purpose in life is to record back-ups of my Ubuntu 12.04 system.  I’ve never formatted the device and it’s always worked...

Most of my first week in Mexico was spent doing battle with two cellular companies:  Boost Mobile and AT&T over cellular coverage and pricing. As the loser of said battles my only remaining recourse...

I recently moved to Mexico from California because my job was approved for 100% telecommuting and, since I can do that from anywhere, why not Mexico? Unfortunately, for me, I chose to live in a town that’s...