I finally bought a Kindle!

I’ve been thinking about getting one for a while now. My sister has one and I’ve been borrowing hers when I go hiking as my Dell Streak‘s screen is just not readable in bright sunlight due to glare. I always question myself before I buy anything nowadays to make sure it’s something I will really be using.

I’ll be traveling long term out of the country in January and …

I was migrating this WordPress blog early this morning from Bluehost to a dedicated Rackspace Cloud Server that I’m already using for a web application I’m writing. It was almost painless! Just ran into a few minor post-migration issues.

The reason I’m migrating is mainly because I want more control, like being able to use my own self-signed SSL certificate without paying extra, for example. I figured since I’m getting very low traffic it really …

This post is really more of a note to myself as I’m sure I’ll be doing this again. But hopefully someone else will stumble upon this and find it useful :).

I have a VPS hosted on Rackspace running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server edition. I wanted to change the hostname as I originally named it the name of the application I was working on, but I’m now planning on using it for multiple things. I …

I’ve always been curious about New Zealand. I’ve met some people who have been here or people who know someone who has been here and they only have good things to say about it. I also read magazines that focus on the outdoors from time to time, such as Outside, Backpacker, and Runner’s World, and once in a while they will have articles that mention New Zealand. The articles are usually about …

About 3 years ago, I was at a Barnes and Noble somewhere in Ohio and saw this book on the shelf called he 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss and I said to myself, “4-Hour Workweek? Yeah, right…” and moved on to the next book.

Then about a year and a half ago, a good friend of mine mentioned that he’s reading this same book I ignored and he really liked it. So I got curious …