Category Archives: MyLife

Why I use a Mac

Embellished Apple Logo

Many people, when they hear what I do for a living, ask me if I use a PC or a Mac. I invariably answer, “I use a Macintosh every day.” At which time they look at me like I am crazy. “An IT guy, using a Mac. I thought that was just for artists.” I…

So I kinda got a Lambretta

ServetaLambrettaJet200Full

I would say that my scooter fever started young… with my dad. He would talk about how cool it was when he would see people riding Vespas around in Belgium when he was a boy. He always talked about them, but never felt he could get one himself. He would say it looked like so…

Using Keychain Access to Secure your Mac

For many years I worked in an office space that was very open. Everyone in that office had physical access to my machine every single day. Even though we all trusted each other, we all preached and did our best to follow good computer physical security practice. We all locked our desktop every time we…

My life is a roller-coaster sometimes.

This weekend was my wife and I’s fifth annual Halloween party. So Last week, on top of my two jobs, I chose to spend my time doing my best to make a really good costume. I ended doctoring up a store bought costume by carving & painting my mask, then adorning the hat with crows…

Still Only Halfway done

As you can see I have been making a couple of changes to the design. It is taking a longer time than I anticipated with this design. It all has to do with MY LIFE. Today started with a huge amount of Sketchup work. I was trying to fix a model that Google rejected the…