Bolting 201
It all started a few years ago when I became obsessed with a new line in Eldorado Canyon. Eventually, things culminated and I began to set out to figure out how to bolt the new climb. With a borrowed drill, … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2009
Website Redesign
It’ pretty obvious thing have changed. The old is out and in it’s place a new bright blue look is born based on the WordPress Stripey theme. Really, there are only a few key changes with the new look: Header … Continue reading
Optimizing WordPress Websites
Recently a web client asked me if I could figure out why their page was loading so slowly. Simple enough question on the surface. Like any sensible web engineer I immediately opened Firefox enabled the Firebug plug-in and went to … Continue reading
Bolting 101
About a year ago I applied for a bolting permit in Eldorado Canyon State Park via ACE FHRC to put up a new sport climb on the north side of the canyon on a rock formation known as Lower Peanuts. Continue reading
Flip-Flop Hunt
Fall Colorado archery hunting big game is all about big views, solitude and sometimes mental anguish. Yesterday late afternoon I drove to Estes Park, CO and parked my truck at Bill Brown’s cabin and started to get on my hunting … Continue reading
Snow Leopard Fresh Install
Just finished a rather lengthy fresh install of the the latest and greatest Mac OS X Snow Leopard upgrading from Leopard. Snow Leopard is considered a maintenenace release that packs few new features instead focusing on beefing up core functionality. Continue reading
Firewall Reset
For the last seven years running I have been in overkill mode with my home firewall. In my desire to learn more about networking I went overboard, as usual, and immersed myself into my own DIY home firewall project. … Continue reading
Selling three Soekris net4801s
I plan to upgrade and simplify my current firewall stack and am selling off three Soekris Engineering net4801s. All machines are working and undamaged. I would prefer to sell all three at once if possible. $300 and all of them … Continue reading
Back Online
As promised the site was down for a few days and now back up! I have decided to go with bluehost.com which was very easy to get set up and rolling. Their fees are cheap due to the bulk hosting … Continue reading
Site going dark for a few days
Later today around 3-5 PM I am dropping my current ISP Speakeasy ADSL internet connection and switching to Comcast cable internet connection. I was on Comcast from 2000-2002 which was a good service until late 2002 when the service badly … Continue reading