For me, it was a lot of bitterness. I would watch the news and they would have a story about women who had their baby in a bathroom and left it there to die. It made me so, so angry. But it doesn’t even have to be something so extreme. I hated going to the… Continue reading What inferfility feels like
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How to tether the Nexus 6 on ATT
It annoys the crap out of me that carriers charge you for tethering your phone. They call it a “hot spot” and charge you a fee for using it even though the functionality is already built into your phone and you already pay them for your data allotment. It’s like if you went to starbucks, bought… Continue reading How to tether the Nexus 6 on ATT
Gchat vs Hangout
I just found out that I can revert back to gchat, instead of using the new hangout. The new hangout sucks. Here is the comment I left for them in their feedback form. This new Hangout replacement for Gchat is super bogus. Here is why 1) Why does hangout need to be in a… Continue reading Gchat vs Hangout
How to get a Southwest Companion Pass
Getting a Southwest Companion Pass is an awesome bonus if you need to travel around the US. The Southwest Companion Pass allows you to fly one companion for free, whenever you fly Southwest. This is an amazing deal, and I think a lot of my friends could benefit greatly from this deal, so I am… Continue reading How to get a Southwest Companion Pass
how to recover from a bad aws volume
Sometimes, for no reason at all, an AWS volume will stop responding. To fix this you can 1) create an image of that volume 2) create a volume from that image 3) attach the new image to the original instance I discovered this today while trying to fix an instance that stopped responding. Wasted a… Continue reading how to recover from a bad aws volume
how to hack the veralite to get ssh root password
Home automation hardware are some of the worst products security wise. Today I wanted to log into my veralite, but I forgot the root password. In no more than 30 minutes, I found a way to gain root. Source: https://www3.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-019.txt First go here http://A.B.C.D/cgi-bin/cmh/store_file.sh?store_file=test Then go here http://A.B.C.D/cgi-bin/cmh/get_file.sh?filename=../../../../../etc/cmh/cmh.conf Then cry, because I just realized my… Continue reading how to hack the veralite to get ssh root password
Goodbye 2014 – the year of falling behind
While my life is always hovering at great, 2014 has been on the lower spectrum of greatness. It’s best illustrated with this experience I had in 2014. So on my 31st, I was driving around to do some errands. I was feeling pretty good. I was thinking to myself, I have great friends, family, and… Continue reading Goodbye 2014 – the year of falling behind
ProtectMyID sucks
So after the Target breach, I signed up for the free credit monitoring service they offered: ProtectMyID. Since then, I have opened a credit card, and brought into use a credit card I have not used in months. I think I also closed an account and changed the credit limit on another… No alerts from… Continue reading ProtectMyID sucks
The Roosevelts
I am watching this new Roosevelt documentary on PBS and I am blown away by how great the Roosevelts were, especially Eleanor. In the 1930s, a time before civil rights or any sort of real social awareness, she was working for civil rights, women’s rights, economic equality, international aid, and even perhaps a hint at… Continue reading The Roosevelts
Rails test fixtures and foreign_key
I learned something about rails fixtures that took me a while to figure out: So the standard fixture reference example is # In fixtures/categories.yml about: name: About # In fixtures/articles.yml one: title: Welcome to Rails! body: Hello world! category: about But what if I had in my model class Articles < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category, foreign_key:… Continue reading Rails test fixtures and foreign_key