Category: Skills
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Prepping – Travel
There are two main options, should the shit actually ever hit the fan: bugging in, or bugging out. Yes, there are variations to both of those, but that’s essentially your two choices in their most basic form. I’ve talked about bugging in a bit, and about hiding in forests and building shelters and such. But…
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Two Factor Authentication
There are two parts to access control, the first is authentication, the second is authorization. Authentication is the process of proving you are who you claim to be. There are three ways to prove you are who you say you are, something you know, something you have, or something about you. When you hand your…
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Data Security
Data security is the protection of your data throughout its lifecycle. Let’s pretend you have a naughty image of yourself that you don’t want anybody else to see. The most secure way of protecting that image is to have never taken that image in the first place. It is too late now. If you put…
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Network Nerding
You might have heard the phrase, “He’s forgotten more than you will ever know.” When dealing with somebody who is quietly competent, that is almost always the case. I was there at the start of the Internet. I watched our campus get X.25 networking. Later, BITNET. I watched email get dumped into the UUCP queues…
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Prepping – Storage Thoughts
When people begin to prep, there’s this mental thing that happens… they begin to store things in buckets. For some, it’s cat litter buckets. For others, it’s the big white buckets you can often get for free at grocery stores. They’re usually five gallon size, and they have a hard plastic exterior which is difficult…
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The Weekly Feast – Hubbard Squash Soup
Squash soups are a favorite of mine. Because dairy and I don’t get along, I can’t indulge in my favorite chowders anymore (I don’t care what anyone says, chowder made with oatmilk is just not the same). Squash soups can be blended to give an impression of being creamy, when there’s not even a drizzle…
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Cooking in Clay
My newest cookbook is now available! The Clay Table From the back cover: Clay pots are probably the oldest cookware known to humans. Since not long after we harnessed fire, we’ve been learning new and improved ways to make cooking vessels, and clay was an obvious early choice. When fired, it’s hard, heat resistant, and…
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Prepping – Shelter
There are lots of different types of shelter that we have access to. As with most things “prepper” related, everyone has a couple of opinions, and many of them clash. Basically, the idea is that you should have access to some kind of shelter in the first three hours of an emergency. It’s a good…
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WYSIAYG vs WYSIWYG
I started my computer career with the command line, or as it is known today, the CLI. Almost everything I do is done via CLI. I’ve had clients that had hosts in China, Ukraine, and London. They all look the same to me because they are just another window next to the other windows on…
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The Weekly Feast – Yom Kippur Knishes
I preface this by saying that I’m not Jewish. However, having dated several Jews over the years, I can tell you that the food is INCREDIBLE. Since Yom Kippur began on Friday at sundown, I thought this delicious parve (meaning it can be eaten any time by Jews, provided they aren’t fasting) dish would be…
