My name is Jim Burnett, welcome to my blog,
www.jimburnett.net.
I live in
Staunton,
VA
and work part-time as a blogger
on my website JimBurnett.net.. I offer affordable hosting at $6 per month with free Wordpress setup, tweaks and assistance.
After reading some of Jody Swallow’s blog posts I’ve seem to have gotten a bug in my ear to go out and start training for an olympic distance Triathlon this year. Training for a .9 mile swim, 25 mile bike and a 6.2 mile run is just what I need to get back into my groove of things. My baby daughter put the breaks on my early season cycling routine this year but now that she is sleeping more and more I think I can squeeze out the training for this. Come to think of it, my goals for 2012 were to do an Olympic distance Triathlon and also cut
Tonight I had my daughter for an extended period of time while the wife went to a bachelorette partyy. During this time I really got a feel for what they might go through on a busy day. Tonight it got real crazy with what started out as a routine diaper change. At first I thought it was a low risk level 3 poo but I soon found out it was a code red alert. Call the national guard, I thought. Perhaps the Department of Defense. This was one serious poo. Blow out. Thats the only way to describe it. Up the back and all over the changing table. And just
I’ve been reading and looking at a lot of blogs lately. A common theme I see amongst all these blogs is that they are all looking more and more like a commercial website. Tons of links and menus all over the site, plain looking logos and the typical blue and white theme colors. One thing that I think many readers enjoy is a true blog look instead of the traditional website look. A blog by todays standards is nothing more than a website. 5 years ago a blog was a journal consisting of personal accounts of various topics and experiences. It’s becoming harder and harder to find those true blogs
Creating SSH tunnels is a big part of my day to day job. Normally, no matter where I am at I need to create a tunnel to my work’s server in order to get into other internal systems. Normally I would just use a shell to do this but I found an app on the Apple Store called SSH Tunnel Manager. You can create various tunnels to various servers. Once you create a tunnel you can then change your Sock proxy settings in Firefox and surf through that tunnel. The cool thing is everything in encrypted up to the SSH tunnel’s endpoint. This means nothing can be sniffed up to
Thanks for stopping by my new blog. Currently I am in the works of creating my new blog. Once finished you’ll have easy access to everything about me! You’ll find techie articles, mainly about my Mac and Linux experiences as well as my fitness and weight loss journals. Hope you stick around.