captbrando's log

I’m headed home from Vegas and I wanted to share a few things I learned along the way. People who are just sitting at a slot machine and punching the buttons every so often are either trying to get a free drink (which seems hard to come by), or is just renting a chair for…

I am a Road Warrior. It comes with the job, and there are days that I really enjoy it.  I could trade some days for others, but it’s days like today that make it all worth while. I’m sitting at the Las Vegas airport waiting for my new flight (previous one is probably going to…

Tonight (and this trip) is really my first Vegas experience.  I was here for Defcon a few years ago, but it was at a hotel off the strip (across the street from the Hard Rock).  I did have some fun gambling when I was here last, but tonight was my first good-strong experience. I played…

Fixing the file system issue I had was FUN. Full of Unexpected sNafus. Parted works great! Except when you need to move the STARTING position of where a partition is. Ouch. For those of you out there who have run into this, in order resize a partition where you need to change the start of…

After making the switch to Mac at home, I’ve been able to streamline a lot of what I was doing at the house. The only complaint I have is that Apple hates ergonomics. Don’t believe me? Go look at the keyboard they ship. I had to dump the wireless one for a wired ergo one…

After hitting pause on my iTunes for the fifth call that came in, I figured there had to be an easier way to get my music and phone to sync up. It’s not a big deal, except I usually forget to turn my speakers back up (or resume my music), and I work in silence…