Adam

So with the IBJJF Worlds happening down in Vegas in September, and me looking at going, I’m currently digging through looking a pricing for flights and trying to figure out if I should fly or if it might be a better idea to fly down. Personally I like road trips, it’s a good way to … Read more

So I have a pile of computers on my desk. Seven in total, and that presents some concerns regarding the piling of the hardware on my desk. Some of the machines are not really that big, one’s a Dell Mini PC that’s not much bigger than a decent sized paperback book, however the storage server … Read more

Well, bound to happen. I managed to pop something in my calf training today. Not really 100% sure how I did it, my and my partner were working some takedowns and guard pulls and as I was being pulled into guard my partner swapped over into a sweep and that was it. Not that he … Read more

I have been sitting here over the last couple of days really thinking about the idea of doing a upgrade on my network to move towards running something faster than 1gb networking on my machines. The thing is that 1gb is actually fine for what I’m running on my local network right now for the … Read more

The last couple of years have seen a number of books and games that I am fond of converted into movies and television shows. Some have been really good, and some have been somewhat lacking in their results. Let’s start with one that didn’t do well, and it’s a bit older but a good example … Read more

As part of my camera kit that I just upgraded I picked up a 24mm f/1.7 lens for the camera. Now for folks that don’t know photography can be a very expensive hobby. It would be entirely reasonable to walk into a camera store and spend thousands and still not have enough gear to be … Read more

Over the last couple of months I’ve been fighting some performance issues with SMB shares on my Macbook. After trying a pile of things the solution was to create the following file. And then toss the following contents into that specific file; I gave my machine a reboot and now I’m copying files into the … Read more

So as I mentioned earlier I picked up some new camera equipment and that means I had to pick up some accessories that you need to get things working properly. One of those things is something called a step ring. When shooting photos I like to use a polarizer on my lens, it helps make … Read more

So from my viewpoint there are a few things that I own that are basically perfect for what I need the device to do and there is really not a lot of point in improving them. And the funny thing is that is really a subjective viewpoint. Take TV’s for example. I don’t watch a … Read more