President Biden’s Long Term Goal

A reasonable person, realizing that Joe Biden is set to be the oldest US President to take office, might believe he doesn’t have the luxury of time to implement all of his goals and agenda items. This is not meant to be disparaging. I’m 46 and think of my mortality on a pretty consistent basis. If I was suddenly thrust …

Regex for MAC Addresses, IP Addresses, and DNS

Regular Expression

I have been using RegEx a lot more recently. Mostly I have been doing Splunk searches, but I have also been writing a standard operating procedure here and there, and that tends to require defining custom fields or attributes in a way that it seems only RegEx can articulate. As a result, I have had to create MAC and IP …

Ubuntu Wallpaper

I took a picture last year that just seemed like it would fit well for an Ubuntu 16.04 wallpaper. My (now) wife made friends with a squirrel in Military Park, across from the Indiana State Museum. If you would like to download a full sized version, I have several links below. I still retain copyright on these images. You are …

Review: Bone Dry Roofing

I just bought a house. Awww, thanks for the congratulations. Anyway, while I would describe the home as “move in ready”, there are a fair number of things that need to be updated or fixed. The crawl space had mold and the sellers remediated that, but the cold air return is pulling from said crawl space (so of course that …

The Death and Resurrection of Jimmy the Drone (Part 1 of 2)

This is the tale of Jimmy the Drone; Mr. UAV to you. He started life as any other drone does, made in some sweatshop overseas so that his future owners could save $20 that they’d never miss anyways. I first met Jimmy when he arrived at my place of business. I had him shipped there because I was too impatient …