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Movie Reviews - February 2019
Movies

Movie Reviews - February 2019

Another year, some more movie reviews... Obligatory link to how I rate movies, and there may be spoilers.Captain America: Civil War (7/10) - It's a Marvel superheroes movie. I like Marvel

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Podcasts 2019
Podcasts

Podcasts 2019

Time for another update on podcasts!I still mourn the death of the video podcast, but I suppose it was fairly inevitable since YouTube and Twitch don't charge creators for bandwidth and also

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Movie Reviews - November 2018
Movies

Movie Reviews - November 2018

It's that time again... as always, reminder about the post on how I rate movies.And spoilers will happen.(Photo by Erik Witsoe on Unsplash)Alien: Covenant (6/10) - As I said

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Security

Disguise from the CIA

Fascinating video of a past CIA Chief of Disguise, Jonna Mendez, talking about her work.I suspect many of the specific tactics are not valid anymore – for example, many comments on the video

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Movie reviews - August 2018
Movies

Movie reviews - August 2018

I've heard there're people waiting for me to write more reviews, so I guess I better get moving. Reminder, here's the post where I explain how my rating system.Let's go!Logan 8/

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AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and Chef version
Work

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and Chef version

tl;dr - there seems to be a bug using Chef 14 to bootstrap nodes with the current AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, using Chef 13 works as expected. I've started working with

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Movie Reviews - July 2018
Movies

Movie Reviews - July 2018

Yet another installment of movie reviews from my list on IMDB. Moving closer to current, but still almost a year back. Here's the post where I explain how I rate movies. Usual warning

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Talent Multiplier
Work

Talent Multiplier

In a 1x1 with my manager the other day we discussed an interesting topic, which I don't think either of us had fully recognized in this way before. It seems somewhat obvious that

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Movie Reviews - April 2018
Movies

Movie Reviews - April 2018

Next chunk of movie reviews from my list on IMDB, still working on a fairly large backlog. Here's the post where I explain how I rate movies. There Will Be Spoilers. Prometheus 6/

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CQ / AEM - reverting HTTP service config
Useful

CQ / AEM - reverting HTTP service config

Ran into an issue today that I couldn't quickly find a useful fix for with Google, so here it is for posterity. In the Adobe AEM (nee CQ) CMS there are configuration options

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Chef upgrades - part 1
Chef

Chef upgrades - part 1

At work our internal Chef infrastructure has been using an older version of Chef for a while. We built out several fully Chef-managed internal projects, all using an automated CI/CD pipeline for

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Managing Email
Useful

Managing Email

Over almost 30 years using email at work I've gathered a few habits to ensure that I see email as it comes in, reply quickly, and can find messages later. In the past

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Books - April 2018
Books

Books - April 2018

As mentioned in my earlier post about starting to blog book reviews... here are some book reviews! See all the notes in that previous post about how I'm doing these. The Paper Magician

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New - Book Reviews
Books

New - Book Reviews

As mentioned in my earlier post about social media I've deleted my Goodreads account, so I'm going to start doing some quick blog posts here about any books I've read/dropped/want to

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Podcasts 2018
Podcasts

Podcasts 2018

I've recently dumped a bunch of podcasts I used to listen to - some because they were daily radio shows I could never keep up with but for some reason felt obligated to

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    Bryan Fullerton
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Working remote
Work

Working remote

I've been working entirely from home (and sometimes the cottage) for about three years now, and part-time from home for a while before that. I'm thankful that my employer was able to offer

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Movie reviews - March 2018
Movies

Movie reviews - March 2018

Here's the next chunk from my IMDB ratings. It's been over a year since my last set of reviews, so none of these are particularly new, but here goes anyway. Warning - lots

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Social Media 2018
About

Social Media 2018

(I'm on vacation this week, so will try to post something here every day. The new blog tech has a nice Android app, so I can easily post from my tablet.) I haven't

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Tech tools I'm using - March 2018
About

Tech tools I'm using - March 2018

A lot of the older posts here have been about what tech tools I've been using, so here's a general update. My main home machine is running Windows 10, as are my wife

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Blog Rebuilt
About

Blog Rebuilt

I've finished rebuilding this blog again, this time on the Ghost blogging platform. Unfortunately, although Ghost does have migration tools for WordPress and some other CMSes/blogging tools, they don't have one for

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Web

Testing Ghost on FreeBSD

Doing some initial testing of the Ghost blogging platform on my FreeBSD test system. Seems to be working pretty smoothly, most of the issues I've had have been documented just not where I

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Movies

Fall 2016 Movie Reviews

Time for another post of quick movie reviews that have accumulated. I'm just going from my IMDB rankings list, so there may be some there I watched earlier and just got around to

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Podcasts

2016-03 Top 5 podcasts

I haven't written about podcasts in a while, but I've been listening to a lot of them. Here are some I've recently started listening to that I'd recommend, in no particular order. Longform

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Movies

Late 2015 quick movie reviews

I've been keeping a list of movies I watch in order to write reviews later, but for a while I haven't had time/been interested. So instead of a bunch of longer reviews

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Work

Moving old Adobe CQ/CRX to a new IP address

I thought I'd already blogged about this, but Google says no (or my search-fu is not strong this morning), so here it is for posterity. If you have an old Adobe (nee Day)

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