A little over six months ago I went to Dubai, UAE on a recruiting trip for work. It was an incredibly interesting place largely because of the amount of construction going on and how over the top some of it is. I just ran into this site that has a lot of photos of examples [...]

It’s been a rough few days for me on the computer front. Over three years ago now I built my primary desktop for home (see this post). It’s worked really well over time except that’s it was extremely loud which led to me (just recently) deciding to try to address the situation. I bought and replaced [...]

Starting maybe five years ago, our group of close friends started doing a Secret Santa gift exchange every year for Christmas. Our first thought was to draw out of a hat which was feasible back then as we were all still single in the group and exclusions (people you can’t ‘get’ as your secret santa [...]