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...
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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...
How to Grow a Virtual Disk… (the long way)
So to any sysadmins who do this kind of stuff on a daily basis, this is going to seem way obvious, but for somebody who doesn’t and has been struggling wi...
Addicted to … Light Bulbs?
Over the weekend I splurged and bought a few of those fancy Philips Hue smart light bulbs with some of our tax refund. And yes, before we get too far into this ...