What the hell, Amazon?
Something must seriously be wrong at Amazon. In the past few months, I’ve had several orders screwed up, but the most recent one takes the cake. By far. R...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Nasira – Part III
This phase of the project starts with bumping the storage from 8TB to 16TB raw storage space, making it 8TB effective space. Given how much space is currently b...
Bernie Sanders is correct
I’ll say this up front: “military weaponry” is a misnomer. The exception to this is very, very limited, and one that many can readily recogniz...
Nasira – Part II
Responses to my previous iteration in this build log led to me digging up some information that could prove useful to those who want to build a NAS. As I said i...
Affair-proofing a marriage
I’ve written before about trust and communication in relationships, especially marriage. Yet many articles on marriage and relationships published by popu...
Leveraging and personal finance
Dave Ramsey definitely caters to a particular audience. That is an audience that has little control over their spending and little, if any, financial intelligen...
Accounting for Fractional Reserve Banking
Fractional reserve banking. “Creating money out of thin air”. Debasing the currency. It can certainly be a confusing concept. Banks we are told have...
Nasira – A FreeNAS build
Ever since first reading about them, I’ve wanted to set up a NAS in my home. They are a great resource for mass storage — pictures, videos, and back...
Yes, having it all does suck
Over on Medium.com, Amy Westervelt wrote a very compelling article on being a working, middle-class mother in this modern day and age called “Having it al...
Stopped by police while NOT carrying
I recently posted an adventure I had the other night trying to find an emergency dentist in the middle of the night. One thing I omitted from that description i...