Normally talking about wireless networks isn’t the most exciting thing that one can talk about. But over the years I have been asked what my thoughts are for a setup or if I would setup a wireless network for someone. With that in mind, this is what I would recommend for a wireless setup if you were doing one from scratch. My in-laws built a new house a little while back and we did some planning ahead of time to account for a future access point that would be mounted once the drywall, texture and paint were all up. The plan is essentially still the same of what I would put in today, though I might go with a few more access points based on the size of the house. I recently just added another to my setup of the same model I have down below.

As in past years, I’m being open and honest about my goals for the year. Keeping yourself accountable is a big part of success so the more people that see this can also call me on excuses as they come up. I’ve never really hit 100% of my goals and I think that’s ok. Goals are meant to stretch you and make you work really hard for something. This makes the reward all the sweeter. So without further ado, my 2016 goals…

Another year and its time to check out the score card on the 2015 goals. This is going to be a rough one folks.

Sleep

Goal 7 hours.

Actual: 6.5

Grade: C

Running

Goal: a distance race.

Actual: None

Grade: F

Code / Write / Ship!

Goal: Ship something

Actual: None

Grade: F

Make something with my hands

Goal: Make something

Actual: Built a few shelves, added on to the raised garden, created a retaining wall / planting area

Many of you out there may not be fans Bloom County but Berkeley Breathed is showing right now why he is one of the very best. Over the past month or so, cold hearted Steve Dallas has been on a journey through lost love, a mid life crisis, star wars and depression. In the end, he shows us that there is more to life than getting ahead at work and buying “things”. Its about taking care of the ones you love. I’ve pulled out the highlights of the story for you and I invite you to follow along. How many times has a comic had you reaching for the kleenexes.

I’ve been one of those guys for years now that has had a number of servers running in my basement. At one point, there were over a dozen doing various things and well…helped me learn for the job that I have now.

But, time moves on and for the past several years I’ve had just one machine that I used for backups and a little bit of development. And in the most recent 12 months, that machine has only been used for backups. Now, normally it wouldn’t be a big deal to have this machine running. But its getting up there in age and quite frankly, a 1U server running in the basement is LOUD!