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Consolidate all your logins and passwords into a single account using LastPass
Over the last few years, I’ve had to create logins at well over 100 different websites. Some of these I use heavily, like Google, Facebook, or Twitter, and others I use only rarely, like AAA or Consumer Reports. Yet for … Continue reading
Toddler Negotiation Strategy: The Neutral Third Party
My favorite quote about parenting is by John Wilmot: Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. Any time I hear or read about someone espousing the right … Continue reading
A powershell script for running reverse lookups on many IP addresses at once
I often find myself looking at web logs when researching anomalous traffic on our servers. It’s not uncommon for a poorly written web scraper to come through the system and generate spurious errors, and I start looking at what IP … Continue reading
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Tagged akamai, debugging, DNS, iis, ISP, powershell, routing, tomcat
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If you never incur overage charges, you may be on the wrong mobile plan
Long ago, I did some research and switched us to a $15/month 200MB data plan from AT&T. I had determined that neither of us ever exceeded 150MB (usually closer to 100MB), so it was an easy decision to switch from … Continue reading
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Tagged family, iPhone, methodology, mobile, personal finance
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Life-size Skype (or FaceTime) video chat using an HDTV, an iPad and Airplay Mirroring
One of the reasons I really wanted to upgrade to the new iPad was for ease of setting up video chats between my kids and my parents. Whereas before we had to go through a lengthy laptop bootup and setup … Continue reading
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Solved: Bug in memcached client library .Net port causes inconsistent key distribution
Memcached is most popularly used in php and java applications, but it’s a great technology that can integrate with anything. For those with programs in the .Net world, there is a .Net memcached client library, which is a port called … Continue reading
A Parenting Milestone: The No Mess Dinner
Parenting is filled with all sorts of milestones. Some are big, like the first step, the first word, or the first full night’s sleep. Others are small, like the first thank you or the first smile. While we tend to … Continue reading
Rainy day home improvements: A hands-free storm door and carbon monoxide detectors
After a week of unseasonably warm weather, a cold-front moved into Boston over Saturday night, bringing cooler temperatures and rain. Faced with a rainy Sunday at home, I figured it was a good time for some home improvements. A few … Continue reading
Twitter has ruined Posterous, so I am migrating my blog to WordPress
Last month, Twitter announced that they had purchased Posterous, the site that I use to host my blog. I found this a little alarming, since in the months after Twitter acquired another popular product, TweetDeck, they slowly gutted it of … Continue reading
A Root Cause Analysis for a child’s skinned knee
At various points in my career as a software architect at companies providing SaaS (software-as-a-service) offerings, I have found myself helping to write up a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) document in the event of an unexpected system issue, such as … Continue reading
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