On Meetings

If you’ve known me for any length of time or followed me on twitter, then you probably know that generally I cannot stand meetings. Judging by the fact that there is an entire phrase, complete with stickers, coffee cups, shirts and ribbons, I’m not the only one. There’s a few things I would like to …

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Review Unifi Dream Machine Pro

I recently upgraded my Unifi setup replacing my USG 3 for a Unifi Dream Machine Pro. In this post I’ll be doing a little review of the Unifi Dream Machine Pro. I love Unifi and have blogged my setup before. I’ve gone through tons of consumer WiFi routers and most of them are garbage. The …

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How to be Antiracist

So unless you’re living under a rock, you know that there are massive protests going on around the entire United States. I’ve already seen white people asking for resources to understand what’s going on or how to be antiracist. Eventually the protests are going to end, but our work doesn’t end there. Its simply not …

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Dynamic vs Condenser Microphone

Last year I did a few videos for Techsnips, when I started pretty much everyone was like just get a blue snowball, so I did. Honestly, I should have known better. I always do my own research on products before buying. But especially should have done my research on what type of microphone it is. …

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Proud to Announce Sponsorship by SquaredUp

In the interest of full disclosure and respect for anyone that happens upon my site I have always made clear in posts if content was sponsored in anyway. That has not been the case, until now. As you can see in the top right corner there is a single ad for SquaredUp. Previous readers of …

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Upgrade your Hyper-V Lab with Servermonkey

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It might be time to upgrade your Hyper-v Lab. Surely you’re not still using the same hardware for your lab from 4 years ago, right? If you’re at all like me, you need a lab to test and play with new technologies. This means periodically upgrading your hardware. This can be an expensive proposition, especially …

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On Becoming an MVP

On April 1st I was notified that I was awarded Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP. To say I was excited would be an understatement. But to really understand how cool it is to me I have to take you back a few years. About five or six years ago I didn’t even know what a …

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