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IT – piHole in the cloud

Back in March, I setup piHole on an Amazon EC2 instance. If you are new to AWS, you can get a year of the smaller EC2 server instances to use for free for 1 year. Afterwards, it is pennies per day depending on what size you build. Super neat.  Save on power, pi and random […]

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IT – SSL Certificates

So coming from the Windows world, certificates are kind of a pain. You have to generate a certificate request from a trusted authority, then sign the certificate, and manually install it on the server. Plus, if you are using a 3rd party to do it and not your own domain then you will have to

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Comic Speculation – Angela

History and Analysis: Angela was co-created by Todd McFarlane and Neil Gaiman and published in March 1993’s issue of Spawn 9.  From the moment she was published she was extremely popular.  From what I recall Wizard magazine even had a poll at one point where she was voted most desired to have her own series. 

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Beginnings

The purpose of this webpage is to chart the progressions of my journey into various interests and activities. I will be linking to some of the different sources where I have published data so that this site can serve as a better aggregator of information as well as a possible timeline of activities. Recently, the

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