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Roasted Broccoli

I’ve always liked broccoli, well compared to most other vegetables. Roasting it with some garlic really makes a great side dish though, with a little effort it comes out miles ahead of steaming/boiling, so that even people who don’t like broccoli will eat it.

Marathon Training - Part 1: Planning

I’ve always wanted to run the Boston Marathon and the NYC marathon, these are some of the biggest marathons in the world and on many runners’ bucket lists. I had a plan in the back of my head for years to start training “sometime in the future” for the races and finally decided that “sometime” could be now.

Potatoes Halves with Guacamole

I usually consider baked potatoes a winter food, especially when you start adding toppings, but what happens when it’s starting to get warm out and you want a touch of summer on your baked potatoes? Just fill them with some guacamole of course.

Home Lab - Part I: Server

In the last few months I expanded my home lab with a new server (and a new router but that’ll be in another post). I purchased a used enterprise server and started migrating my already hosted services over to it (for example this website) and adding services and experimenting with things to learn and grow and have fun.

All Day Tomato Sauce

If you want to make amazing tomato sauce with deep complex flavors and will be home all day and can stir it every couple hours, this is the recipe for you. It’s another recipe from Kenji and seriouseats and it really out shines most other tomato sauces I’ve had, and really blows the jarred sauces out of the water.

Solid State Drive

One of the best bang for your buck upgrades you can make for your computer is a solid state drive (SSD). Of course it depends on what your computer already has, and how you use it, but for me - when I often restart because I dual boot windows and linux and I was still working off an old platter disk, it made absolute sense. So this post is about my new SSD and how it compares to my old drives.

2010 - SavageMan

2010 was a big year for triathlons for me, I did Ironman France in the early Summer, qualified for and competed at duathlon worlds in Edinburgh and did SavageMan just 2 weeks after that (along with a few shorter races here and there).

FOG Project

The Fog project is an image server I setup to help out when deploying new (well in my case old computers). I started volunteering to refurbish donated old computers for people who otherwise can’t afford one. The steps of refurbing each computer include installing windows 10 and a few programs, which while not all that difficult can be time consuming. An image server can really cut down on install time.