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Month: October 2011

Jon’s DSLR Buying Guide: Part 1 – The Camera

Today, digital cameras are ubiquitous — everyone who has a cellphone has a camera. Even with this proliferation of cameras, if you want a camera that is a step above the rest, you need an SLR or more correctly a DSLR. Fortunately for intrepid amateur photographers, DSLRs can be had on the cheap (Nikon D3100s…

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Photography

Battlefield 3 is out tomorrow!! See you online!

In case you have forgotten, tomorrow is the release of Battlefield 3 and I am excited! I played the beta and while it was very limited (only one map, only online, no vehicles), I had a lot of fun with it. I wasn’t much of a fan of playing shooters in multiplayer until Modern Warfare…

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Games

(Re-)Introducing PDNSOps

By Dsv (Own work) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons For the last few years, my DNS server of choice (when I run my own) is PowerDNS. It is very simple to use, and the ability to run multiple “backends” makes it wonderfully configurable. My choice setup is PowerDNS running the MySQL backend. Of course the…

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Code

Goodbye US Bank

I opened my first checking account, by my parents guidance, before I was 18 years old. When it was time for me to get my first credit card, I went to US Bank. As a result, I’ve had both a checking account and credit card with them for quite some time. For my checking account…

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Personal

Ride Friday: Why motorcyclists don’t honk

By jjron (Own work) GFDL 1.2 (www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html), via Wikimedia Commons If you drive a normal 4 wheeled vehicle (what we motorcyclists like to refer to as a “ cager“) then you might not have noticed, but the motorcyclists on the road rarely honk at you — especially when you’re trying to kill us. I only…

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Motorcycles

Converting to an Xbox Live Family Pack

I’ve been an Xbox Live Gold member for the last few years now, and other than the first time I bought a Gold Membership (through the Xbox), I have always bought my memberships via cards that were on sale (usually through Amazon or eBay’s daily deal). As a result, my subscription had well over 20…

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Games

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