Cebu City Temple Dedication
Sunday morning we woke up early. My stay with the San Enrique members had too many unnecessarily early mornings and Sunday was no exception. Our session was ...
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Philippines 2010
Goodbye Negros, Philippines
Last Thursday I finally left Bacolod, Negros for San Enrique. I first stopped off at the Carriedo family and had a nice time seeing Pinky, Opie, Bambie, and ...
A Poor Wayfaring Kano
After I posted the last two posts on Monday in La Carlotta I felt a hunger stirring in my belly. This hunger was a little suspicious, however I trusted it an...
Kabankalan II, The Return of Brad2x
I left Sipalay Friday morning around 11 am. I walked back to my bike where they told me that I had to wait a couple hours for the tide to go down because at ...
Proud to be a Negros Baby!
I left Dipolog the next day. Before I packed up I took a couple pictures of the “fire exit” right next to my room.
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’
Today was a travel day. I found that I have travel days and I have enjoy days. I don’t really tend to split them up, which is fine, but I didn’t do much toda...
Tinago Falls in Iligan, Mindanao
After getting a shave and a pretty unflattering haircut in Cagayan de Oro I made the short one and a half hour drive to Iligan. I read in my guide book that ...
Central Mindanao
I ended up staying in San Francisco an extra day. I spent the day swimming in the pool, trying to upload some posts at the really slow local internet cafe, a...
Arriving In Mindanao
Monday night I slept in Tacloban at the Welcome Home Pensione. I went to pick up my pants around 5:45pm but they were closed so I went to Jollibee and ate di...
Borongan –> Guiuan –> Tacloban
Saturday I left Borongan, Samar and headed south toward my next destination, Guiuan. The road south (and north) of Borongan is terrible. Pete, the owner of P...
Samar
Thursday I finally left Tacloban. My pants won’t be ready until Monday the 10th. I left Tacloban and headed north up to the San Juanico bridge. It’s a pretty...
Into The West
This song never fails to remind me of living in Old Escalante in 2004 as a missionary. I listened to it two nights ago, and it’s incredible how real and forc...
Beautiful Leyte
I left Bogo Sunday morning to go to the wharf where I would catch my ferry. I arrived there around 10:00 so that I could catch the 11:00 ferry. But when they...
The Long And Winding Road To Bogo
I left my room in Toledo around 10 am Saturday morning. I woke up around 7 and had a somewhat lazy morning. The place I stayed in, Toledo Traveler’s Inn, was...
On The Road! Carcar to Toledo
Today (Friday) I took it easy in the morning; I typed up a blog post and a few emails, read some scriptures and wrote in my journal, worked out, and packed u...
From Cebu City To Carcar, or, How I Met My XR200
Finally, things are starting to get off the ground. On Tuesday of this week I finally checked out of the Diplomat hotel. I returned the scooter back to Paul ...
My First Few Days In Cebu
My first few days in Cebu City have been really quite strange. I’m still waiting for my luggage, though the Korean Air reps are now telling me it’s in Manila...
Getting There
I’m sitting in Seoul Incheon Airport waiting for my transfer flight to Cebu City, just under 3 hours to wait until we start boarding. Maybe I’ll watch a movi...
Philippines Motorcycle Tour 2010
I’m going to the Philippines this summer, from April to June: 60 days. Below is a map of where I plan on touring. I’m really excited!
Guides
Guide: Self-host Bitwarden on Google Cloud for Free*
This write-up is a product of my quest to self-host Bitwarden on a free-tier cloud product. Following these instructions, you should have a product that prov...
Guide: Zoho SMTP Postfix Relay
I’d like my server to send me email alerts when services have issues. This guide will walk you through the steps to use Zoho email to achieve this.
Guide: Run Jupyter Lab as a User Service
I’ve recently been working a large project based on Python which involves collecting a large amount of data. When it came to start analyzing the data, I star...
Guide: Restrict a Normal Windows 10 Account Login Hours
Update March 2021: One final point that I didn’t originally mention - the account that you want to be logged off automatically cannot be an Administrator acc...
Using Python to get a TTY
I grabbed this snippet from a slide posted at a CTF I attended earlier this year. It was a pretty cool little hack I decided to archive it here in case I eve...
Arduino-Powered Jack o’ lantern
This Halloween I decided to have a pumpkin-carving contest with my wife. I wanted to leverage my talents, so I took this as an opportunity to buy and play wi...
Guide: Pass GPU (NVENC) into an LXC Container (with FFMPEG)
Update April 2019 I bought a new GPU for my server, a P400 which is capable of transcoding H265 encoded video. I found this guide wasn’t working properly ...
Python: ROT13 Encryption Implementation
As I learn more about encryption, I enjoy exploring its many aspects, including this ancient method of encryption called the Caesar Cipher, or recently calle...
A Quick and Easy Python Tutorial
This is a translation from a 90 minute class I held on the basics of Python scripting. A download link for the PowerPoint .pptx file is at the bottom of the ...
Canada 2014
Highwaymen
Returning to the United States was bittersweet; it was good to be home, but sad to leave the beautiful country we had grown to love.
Destination Highway 2: British Columbia from Golden to Osoyoos
Banff was beautiful, but we had to continue south to keep up with our schedule. British Columbia awaited us, and it had its own unique natural beauty that co...
Alberta Rockies and Banff Lakes
Winding our way northward, we finally entered the Alberta Canadian Rockies where we rode in the shadow of colossal snow-capped peaks and stopped at the shore...
Going to the Sun - Missive on Motorcycling Alberta
Alberta is incredible. Vast expanses of sky spread infinitely across plains that race westward toward the Rockies. I was constantly awed by the colors and c...
A Desolate Country Road
Night was coming. The twilight fringes of the eastern sky were creeping toward the once-brilliant sunset. The clouds that were once white and welcoming we...
Cruisin’ Canada - Prelude to our Motorcycle Trip
Julie and I recently completed two weeks on a motorcycle, traveling more than 3500 miles in two weeks. This was a first for Julie, and a first for me in Cana...
Belize 2009
San Pedro and Going Home
The delay in finishing up this travelogue has more to do with me wanting to forget the worst part of our Belize trip than simple procrastination. In fact, it...
Punta Gorda
Day 4: We woke up early, packed together all our things, and left the cabana at about 7:00 for the bus station. We were running a little late, and at the ter...
Dangriga and Cockscomb Jaguar Reserve
Day 2: On our first day in Dangriga we decided to take it easy. We slept in our cabana until about 10am. The sound of the surf and the cool breeze made it e...
Landing and Getting to Dangriga
First off, I apologize to the blogosphere (and a million times over to Bradford) for those of you who have been gripping the edges of your seats waiting to h...
Belize: February 11-February 18 2009
Back in October 2008 I got an email from AirfareWatchdog.com (great service, I highly recommend it) alerting me to amazing prices to Belize from Salt Lake Ci...
Home Server
Create a Bootable USB Install Media for ESXi
While rebuilding my home server based on ESXi 5.5 hypervisor, I needed to install the operating system. Because I don’t have an optical drive on the machine,...
Using Lighttpd to Redirect to New URL
My blog’s old domain are set to expire in November. The reason I initially registered the domain was to create a family website. My family traditionally has ...
Bash Script for Sitelutions.com DynDNS
I use sitelutions.com for my websites and subdomains; I love using sitelutions because it’s the best free solution I found for my servers with dynamic IPs. T...
Guide: Transmission-CLI and RSS
I really like Transmission-CLI for torrents, however it is lacking many features I used with uTorrent. One of them is downloading torrents automatically from...
Invalid Torrent Created With transmission-cli
I’m posting this mainly because I had a really hard time finding the solution. Hopefully someone in the same boat can find this solution helpful.
Sheevaplug
Success! Building Transmission 1.80 From Source on SheevaPlug
I saw the announcement on the Transmission website of the release of transmission 1.80 and I got really excited about some of the features such as tracker-le...
Turning My SheevaPlug Into A Web Server
After I got Ubuntu running on my Plug, I started going about turning it into what I originally planned for it: LAMP, UPnP, and Torrent server.
SheevaPlug Unboxing and Ubuntu Install
It finally arrived! I woke up last week to find that there was a small box waiting for me to open.
A $173.40 Toothbrush and More Server Shenanigans!
I went to the dentist today for the first time in over 3 years. I know, and I’m a bad flosser too. Since I don’t have dental insurance, the cost for the clea...
Linux
Resizing VirtualBox VHD
When I first created my VM for developing, I made the VHD a dynamic hard drive, but limited it to just 30GB. I didn’t think that I could fill that much space...
Using Lighttpd to Redirect to New URL
My blog’s old domain are set to expire in November. The reason I initially registered the domain was to create a family website. My family traditionally has ...
Bash Script for Sitelutions.com DynDNS
I use sitelutions.com for my websites and subdomains; I love using sitelutions because it’s the best free solution I found for my servers with dynamic IPs. T...
Guide: Transmission-CLI and RSS
I really like Transmission-CLI for torrents, however it is lacking many features I used with uTorrent. One of them is downloading torrents automatically from...
Python
Guide: Run Jupyter Lab as a User Service
I’ve recently been working a large project based on Python which involves collecting a large amount of data. When it came to start analyzing the data, I star...
Using Python to get a TTY
I grabbed this snippet from a slide posted at a CTF I attended earlier this year. It was a pretty cool little hack I decided to archive it here in case I eve...
Python: ROT13 Encryption Implementation
As I learn more about encryption, I enjoy exploring its many aspects, including this ancient method of encryption called the Caesar Cipher, or recently calle...
A Quick and Easy Python Tutorial
This is a translation from a 90 minute class I held on the basics of Python scripting. A download link for the PowerPoint .pptx file is at the bottom of the ...
Blockchain
Part 3: Privledge
This is the final part of my blockchain series, continued from Part 2: Blockchain Present and Beyond
Part 2: Blockchain Present and Beyond
This is a continuation from Part 1: Blockchain Origin Story
Part 1: Blockchain Origin Story
For background information on the why behind blockchain and distributed ledgers, read Part 0: Blockchain Background.
Part 0: Blockchain Background
Image credit: Zoolander
Guide
Guide: Transmission-CLI and RSS
I really like Transmission-CLI for torrents, however it is lacking many features I used with uTorrent. One of them is downloading torrents automatically from...
Turning My SheevaPlug Into A Web Server
After I got Ubuntu running on my Plug, I started going about turning it into what I originally planned for it: LAMP, UPnP, and Torrent server.
Acer Aspire One Bluetooth Mod (Soldering Info) & Ram Upgrade
I have been in the market for a netbook ever since Asus announced their ≈$200 laptop EEEPC way back, which started a major trend. And now that Asus has relea...
Web Design
Restoring a Pharma Hacked WordPress Site (WP 3.4)
I’ve been working on my Professor K’s blog and found that it had been hacked. It was kind of strange how I found that it was hacked; while trying to install ...
Making A Child Theme of Twenty Ten
I realized after a recent upgrade to WordPress 3.0 and after changing my blog’s address that I was tired of my old blog’s look. I was really impressed with t...
Windows Live Writer, lighttpd, and WordPress xmlrpc.php
I love Windows Live Writer. I use it now for all my blog editing. Recently though, after setting up my new SheevaPlug as my server and using lighttpd instead...
Security
Guide: Self-host Bitwarden on Google Cloud for Free*
This write-up is a product of my quest to self-host Bitwarden on a free-tier cloud product. Following these instructions, you should have a product that prov...
Secure Cloud Storage: SpiderOak
I’ve learned a lot in the last year of my technical training, particularly in the field of network security and encryption. What used to be a simple relatio...
Restoring a Pharma Hacked WordPress Site (WP 3.4)
I’ve been working on my Professor K’s blog and found that it had been hacked. It was kind of strange how I found that it was hacked; while trying to install ...
Android
Android SDK: “no permissions” for HTC EVO LTE
I’m setting up a new dev environment in an Ubuntu VM. One of the toughest obstacles was getting adb to recognize my HTC EVO without starting adb as root. Non...
Android SDK: UnknownFormatConversionException
I’ve been working on a weird exception for the past couple hours and finally figured it out. Since I couldn’t find any information about this exception I fig...
Android SDK: Data exceeds UNCOMPRESS_DATA_MAX
I’m finishing up my first app (attaBase) and testing it on the minimum API I set: 8. That’s Android 2.2. My app grabs a 4MB CSV file and imports all the DoD ...
Scripts
Guide: Self-host Bitwarden on Google Cloud for Free*
This write-up is a product of my quest to self-host Bitwarden on a free-tier cloud product. Following these instructions, you should have a product that prov...
Part 3: Privledge
This is the final part of my blockchain series, continued from Part 2: Blockchain Present and Beyond
Simple ZFS Pool SMART Test Script
I needed a simple way to run SMART tests on my ZFS pools that didn’t require me to manually specify which devices to scan. The following BASH script makes it...
Acer Aspire One
Windows 7 Beta on Acer Aspire One Install
I got the Beta of Windows 7 the other day, and after hearing reports that Windows 7 is more netbook friendly, I decided to try it out. I’m installing it on m...
Acer Aspire One Bluetooth Mod (Soldering Info) & Ram Upgrade
I have been in the market for a netbook ever since Asus announced their ≈$200 laptop EEEPC way back, which started a major trend. And now that Asus has relea...
Mods
Fitting A Solid State Disk Into Lenovo S10 (AT&T)
I bought a Lenovo S10 for $188 to take with me on my upcoming trip to the Philippines. It was a good deal, the model I ended up getting has
Acer Aspire One Bluetooth Mod (Soldering Info) & Ram Upgrade
I have been in the market for a netbook ever since Asus announced their ≈$200 laptop EEEPC way back, which started a major trend. And now that Asus has relea...
Themepack
Theme Pack for Windows 7: Birds
I love birds so I decided to make a theme pack with some high resolution wallpapers. I got most of them from Interface Lift, a FANTASTIC wallpaper / photogra...
Wordpress
Restoring a Pharma Hacked WordPress Site (WP 3.4)
I’ve been working on my Professor K’s blog and found that it had been hacked. It was kind of strange how I found that it was hacked; while trying to install ...
Programming
Android SDK: UnknownFormatConversionException
I’ve been working on a weird exception for the past couple hours and finally figured it out. Since I couldn’t find any information about this exception I fig...
Literature
The End Of The Furrow
“He was experiencing what the earth may experience at the moment when it is opened by the plow so wheat may be sown; it feels only the wound; the thrill o...
vSphere
Create a Bootable USB Install Media for ESXi
While rebuilding my home server based on ESXi 5.5 hypervisor, I needed to install the operating system. Because I don’t have an optical drive on the machine,...
Template
Template for Baptismal Ordinance Program
This is a baptismal ordinance program that can be modified to fit any denomination.
LXC
Guide: Pass GPU (NVENC) into an LXC Container (with FFMPEG)
Update April 2019 I bought a new GPU for my server, a P400 which is capable of transcoding H265 encoded video. I found this guide wasn’t working properly ...
NVENC
Guide: Pass GPU (NVENC) into an LXC Container (with FFMPEG)
Update April 2019 I bought a new GPU for my server, a P400 which is capable of transcoding H265 encoded video. I found this guide wasn’t working properly ...
Arduino
Arduino-Powered Jack o’ lantern
This Halloween I decided to have a pumpkin-carving contest with my wife. I wanted to leverage my talents, so I took this as an opportunity to buy and play wi...
ZFS
Simple ZFS Pool SMART Test Script
I needed a simple way to run SMART tests on my ZFS pools that didn’t require me to manually specify which devices to scan. The following BASH script makes it...
Cryptography
Part 1: Blockchain Origin Story
For background information on the why behind blockchain and distributed ledgers, read Part 0: Blockchain Background.
Smart Contracts
Part 2: Blockchain Present and Beyond
This is a continuation from Part 1: Blockchain Origin Story
Windows 10
Guide: Restrict a Normal Windows 10 Account Login Hours
Update March 2021: One final point that I didn’t originally mention - the account that you want to be logged off automatically cannot be an Administrator acc...
Jupyter Lab
Guide: Run Jupyter Lab as a User Service
I’ve recently been working a large project based on Python which involves collecting a large amount of data. When it came to start analyzing the data, I star...
Anaconda
Guide: Run Jupyter Lab as a User Service
I’ve recently been working a large project based on Python which involves collecting a large amount of data. When it came to start analyzing the data, I star...
Node.js
Guide: Run Jupyter Lab as a User Service
I’ve recently been working a large project based on Python which involves collecting a large amount of data. When it came to start analyzing the data, I star...
Postfix
Guide: Zoho SMTP Postfix Relay
I’d like my server to send me email alerts when services have issues. This guide will walk you through the steps to use Zoho email to achieve this.
Bitwarden
Guide: Self-host Bitwarden on Google Cloud for Free*
This write-up is a product of my quest to self-host Bitwarden on a free-tier cloud product. Following these instructions, you should have a product that prov...
Google Cloud
Guide: Self-host Bitwarden on Google Cloud for Free*
This write-up is a product of my quest to self-host Bitwarden on a free-tier cloud product. Following these instructions, you should have a product that prov...