Month: July 2026

I’m a little over a month out from going down to compete at the BIJJF Worlds in Vegas this year. It’s the first time I’m competing at anything outside of the in house tournaments that run at the school. Yea. I know. I’m jumping straight into the deep end. This week however I did have … Read more

So with a new camera I’m spending a lot of time looking for places where I can go take some photos. I was going to make a run up to a viewpoint on the way to Mount Cypress but given that a FIFA game was running traffic was enough of a mess that I decided … Read more

Back when Broadcom bought VMWare a pile of changes were implemented on their end that resulted in some sweeping increases in price and the dropping of several free options from their stack of offerings. Once this info started flowing and we realized that the cost to keep their products around were going to jump 300% … Read more

For a long time I didn’t bother having any type of media server at home, I just had the machine that had copies of my media hooked up to the TV directly or had a computer sitting on that TV accessing the media through a SMB share or something along those lines. However since that … Read more

So, we have some of those MacBook NEO’s sitting around the office since they are a pretty good deal (even after the price increases) for the demo devices that we need. The intent wasn’t to use them as daily drivers just as a node that would be online for our products to talk to. However … Read more

Well now that I’ve got a new Camera I’ve been doing a lot of walking around parks that are resonably close to where I live and one of those is the Malcom Knapp Research Forest. It’s not like some of the other parks that are geared at recreation, it’s a working forest where folks are … Read more

One of my favourite Anime series is Ghost in the Shell. Personally I always liked the original manga and while many of the other adaptations are good they always had something that didn’t always completely scratch that itch for me. A new one that just came out and the art style so far is pretty … Read more

So last month Anthropic pushed out some new models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5 and shortly after the US Government flagged them as being a issue and had them pulled from production. I’ve heard a lot of “reasons” for this from various people but something obviously spooked people in the know enough that they decided … Read more

Today I was messing around with a MacBook Neo from work, playing around with moving user profiles around with an eye to trying to use the device as a daily driver. One of the things that I need to do for that to work is to get the users home folder saved into a separate … Read more