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Debian 6.0 Squeeze – Initial Server Setup 28 Apr 2013 | 03:41 am
This guide is intended to be used in an environment where you have a barebones install of Debian 6.0 server. This could be on one of the various cloud platforms such as Rackspace, AWS, Linode, and oth...
I Invited Bill Gates To My High School Graduation – This Was His Response 25 Nov 2011 | 08:39 am
Back in high school and a few years after I was very much a hardcore Windows guy. This may be hard to believe for some of my friends and colleagues who didn’t know me back then since I’m now seen as o...
A 40,000 Foot Update 24 Sep 2011 | 03:14 pm
Sitting here cruising at about 40,000 feet heading home and felt the urge to post a little note to the old blog which hasn’t seen much action as of late. To say the last year has been busy would be an...
You Are What You Tweet (@ckeck) 14 Jul 2011 | 08:07 am
I was really excited to see that Visual.ly finally went GA just the other week for all your infographic needs. As part of their launch they built this really neat Twitter persona visualizer of sorts. ...
What book will change the way I market products? 7 Jan 2011 | 09:27 am
I’m a sucker for business and strategy books (for good reason) so I immediately jumped on this question when I saw it last night while browsing through Quora. I’ve read many of the books mentioned, mo...
Moving On In The Cloud 22 Nov 2010 | 04:01 pm
After 4 1/2 amazing years the time has come to move on and say goodbye to Rackspace and the many friends I’ve made along the way. Let me state for the record that this was the hardest career decision ...
Quake 2 – I’ve Still Got It 30 Jul 2010 | 04:12 am
The other day I had some (rare) free time on my hands so I decided I’d have some fun and do a bit of gaming on my new 27″ iMac to break it in a bit. After a bit of internal debate I realized that I ha...
Cloud Hosting Provider Hardware Benchmarks 18 May 2010 | 06:33 am
While running some hardware benchmarks on my new Core i7 Apple MacBook Pro, I got the idea to run the same benchmarks across several Cloud hosting platforms to see how their hardware stacks up. The to...
My Favorite Cartoons Growing Up 11 May 2010 | 03:30 am
While watching cartoons with my step-daugther this weekend I got to thinking about all of my favorite cartoons I watched as a kid. Most of these are from the mid-late 80′s, back when cartoons were act...
Apple MacBook Pro Core i7 GeekBench Benchmarks & Review 8 May 2010 | 10:27 am
So about a week ago I got very impulsive and dediced to upgrade from my 3.06 C2D MacBook Pro to the new Core i7 based model that was recently released. I wasn’t simply after the latest and greatest pr...