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Life in hi-definition

February 5th, 2012 Comments off
I feel secure enough to publicly share that I was a terrible baseball player as a child. I never hit the ball. In fact, I played from little league up through high-school as a starting bench warmer. I had a decade of miserable experiences on the ball field. I don't know if that's an example [...]
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In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Book Review

August 7th, 2011 Comments off
I hated In the Garden of Beasts when I first started reading it. Mainly, I felt deceived. What I knew about the book was that it was the early days of Hitler's regime and life in Berlin was described through the eyes of an American family that was living there at the time. You expect [...]
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Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand Book Review

August 2nd, 2011 Comments off
Unbroken follows the life of American hero Louis Zamperini. I had been looking forward to this book coming. The book's author, Laura Hillenbrand is both a good writer as well as an inspirational story herself. She suffers from chronic fatigue and rarely leaves her own house. Yet, she writes inspirational books like Sea Biscuit and now [...]
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Chef Patrick Interviewed By DomainSherpa.com

July 14th, 2011 Comments off
For those of you that have not already seen, I was interviewed by DomainSherpa.com which posted yesterday. Thank you to Michael Cyger for the invite and interview. I also want to add a bravo to Michael. He’s done a great job with his video interviews. Michael has interviewed some great guests such as Frank Schilling, [...]

A new chapter in life begins. Harvard, a relaunch of a business and more.

May 15th, 2011 Comments off
Today I've arrived at Harvard Business School where I'm in a three year program. I'm nervous but anxious to get started. The program is a month long each year and it's complete immersion with classes Monday through Saturday. You live on-campus with the other students so when you aren't in actual class you are studying with them [...]
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Another reason print is a dying medium. Who carries 8 quarters?

April 26th, 2011 Comments off
Every time I find myself at Atlanta’s airport I pass a vending machine that sells the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Without fail, I tell myself, “You knew it was going to be there, you should have brought two dollars in change”. Seriously though, why should I have to do that? If these newspapers are going to [...]
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Another reason print is a dying medium. Who carries 8 quarters?

April 26th, 2011 Comments off

Every time I find myself at Atlanta’s airport I pass a vending machine that sells the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Without fail, I tell myself, “You knew it was going to be there, you should have brought two dollars in change”. Seriously though, why should I have to do that?

If these newspapers are going to stand a chance against online media, the least they could do is install some digital method of paying, or even a dollar bill taker.

I can only assume that outfitting these machines so people could pay with their mobile phones and what-not would just cost too much. What’s the alternative? There must be millions of them out there.

I think in 2013 there’s going to be a thriving business modifying these machines into fish tanks or something else clever. There intended use is becoming ludicrous.

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Goodbye Oversee, Chef Patrick Is Back!

March 11th, 2011 Comments off
Nearly one year ago, after being self-employed for over five years, I decided to take a position with domain name registrar Moniker as a premium broker. A lot of people questioned why I did this. Well, last January before DOMAINfest my friends Morgan Linton and Jason Thompson held their Southern California Domainers Meetup which I [...]
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

December 25th, 2010 Comments off
I know it is late in the day, but I wanted to at least get out a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone in the domain community. Picture below taken two weeks ago at the beach. I know, living in Florida is tough Next week I will be posting a 2010 recap for Chef [...]

System Admin needed with experience in High Availability environments part time ok, can work remotely

December 1st, 2010 Comments off

I need a system admin that can be available for an immediate consultation as well as regular checkup and to be on call.

It’s ok to be remote and it’s part-time work. We want someone great. If interested, please contact me.

Skill requirements:

  • Experience in HA environments
  • Security & Firewall Management
  • High traffic apache & db optimization

Current System:

  • Cent0S 5.5
  • HAproxy
  • Mysql Cluster
  • Apache
  • Memcached
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