Number Portability, Revisited
Aside from maybe my email address, my home phone number has probably been the most consistent in my adult life. Back when I first moved to Florida in 2003, I go...
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Smart Home Talk, 2020 Edition
I spent a good part of yesterday mulling about this and I think my efforts toward creating “a smart home” are coming along better than I would’...
Tracking Me
I just finished a really fantastic book called Atomic Habits by James Clear. There were so many useful bits about productivity and behaviors and getting stuff d...
Coronavirus, Day 24 – Inspiration, Pt 2
P.S. I started folding on one of my servers today!
Coronavirus, Day 8 – Deciphering Data
I know that a lot of people are really frustrated with the statistics that we’ve seen coming out of the COVID-19 crisis. Some people flat out think they&#...
FINALLY! An Actual Use for QR Codes!!!
There’s no sense in holding back now – I’ve honestly always thought that QR codes were kind of dumb. BUT… I just stumbled across a prett...
Evolution of a Media Collection
I wish I had kept better records of this over time – I’m basically just going by when I added new drives, but it’s still crazy to see how this...
To Migrate 70 Terabytes…
It’s true. The project that I started almost two months ago to migrate all of my home server data from rapidly aging desktop hardware to a rackmount NAS i...
Rediscovering Music, Digitally
Recently I decided to revisit the seemingly gargantuan task of reorganizing my digital music collection. It’s something that I’ve been putting off e...
A Change of Backup…
This past weekend I finally made the decision to switch backup providers from CrashPlan to Backblaze. I think. It seems like I’ve been using CrashPlan for...