Alaska: The Great Green North
The Aleutian Islands! Volcanoes! Polar bears! Ice floes! Penguins! I didn't see any of that! But, I did get to see some other cool things.
California? Again? Really?
Yes, really. This time I'm accompanied by my brother Scott and by JTB. We drove around the Sierra Nevada area to visit Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks. We took many photos, why don't you look at some of them? I also got pretty wordy, ick.
⇨ Read more ⇨Cross-compile Qt for a Raspberry Pi with Ansible (CentOS)
Have you ever wanted to cross-compile a Qt application on your Raspberry Pi but hate bash scripts because bash scripts are literal garbage? Well now you can, with some handy Ansible playbooks that I wrote!
Oops, I did it again - I updated my site
I completely re-jiggered my website again, like I do.
The week of 6-22-2015 in Pictures
This week we celebrated jerky and crabs. By which I mean my brother's and my father's birthdays. I converted 20 pounds of meat into about 3, and we caught and cooked 45 blue crabs.
⇨ Read more ⇨Hooray! Another Trip to California
I was once again in California for two consecutive weeks. I thought my brother needed to come see the West Coast and take in some of the scenery.
⇨ Read more ⇨Pikes Peak & Red Rocks
We were out in the greater Denver area for work last week, and we took the time to do some sightseeing.
Preparing the 2014 Garden
We've begun planting the 2014 garden, come take a look at what we've finished so far.
Installing GeoDjango with PostGIS on CentOS 6.5
WARNING: All of this is severely outdated and you will have a bad time if you follow these directions
Django includes a useful geographic services system called GeoDjango. Getting it up and running on CentOS can be a chore, particularly if you need packages newer than CentOS 6 provides. In this post, I'm going to list the steps I took install GeoDjango with PostgreSQL's PostGIS system. If you're reading this, then I'm going to assume you have at least a passing familiarity with Linux and Django.
⇨ Read more ⇨Baling Wire and Spit: Reliable Remote Computer Control
A recent work project involved remote, unmanned computers set up to record weather data. Every so often, we want to log in to the computers and download the data for processing. The question is, if you are using off-the-shelf parts, can you make the remote computer reliably available?