Joshua

I don't know anybody like that.

February 16, 2025
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I saw this comic in my images I downloaded at some point.  I think it is pretty damn awesome.  

WTF People? Stop Wasting our time and money!

February 16, 2025
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So my google is personalized to me, and I saw a this headline “Guy Claims Google Owes Him $500 Billion” and it made me curious (as it should you). Reading over this two things strike me.  First, This is the second time the guy in this story (David Stebbins) has done this.  The last time, it…

I always feared asking the general public what they think of hackers…

February 16, 2025
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And this is why : Lesson Learned: Never Ask Strangers About #DefCon – #Lulz Edition From My experience, this is dead on, unfortunately.

Got My First Tattoo, and Status Updates

February 16, 2025
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Been busy again, so I haven’t had a lot of time to update the site again, but I needed to get a post about my tattoo up. so heres the tattoo. It means strength in konji. I’m planning to get “Honor” on the right side later.

A look @t My Music Choices

February 16, 2025
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For anyone that has known me for a while, music is a HUGE part of my life, and I can thank my mom and family for that. I can still remember my mom putting on the Amy Grant Record and dancing around and singing along with it. (Yes, a Record… and shut it, it wasn’t…

10 Things I Learned from Marching Band

February 16, 2025
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10. Surround yourself with like minded individuals, and have a common goal. (Like 1st Place at State!) 09. Sometimes, it is better to play things by ear. (Especially important if your out of tune or out of touch) 08. Your tone and support can be the difference between hitting the note or coming up flat.…

WTF? Get Ready for the Timewarp…

February 16, 2025
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I don’t normally post about politics because of the volatile nature, but current events have really got me confused, worried and asking WTF!?!?!?!

One of Those Days….

February 16, 2025
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So normally, I wouldn’t post about some “out of control customers”, or people giving me grief about something dumb, but today I feel like sharing some of my more choice stories, one being from today. I will not include anyone’s name or domain, to protect the ill-witted, and my job.

Twitter's DNS was "compromised" — What does that mean?

February 16, 2025
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So last night at about 10pm, Twitter was displaying a message that it had been hacked by the Iran Cyber Army. There was much speculation as to how Twitter got hacked, as Twitter.com was not functioning but some APIs and Tweets were working. It wasn’t until the status page updated that we found out exactly…

Death to Http Flooders…

February 16, 2025
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So, for those of you that don’t know, I work for a hosting company. I enjoy what I do, and for all intents and purposes, I do a pretty good job at it. Recently, one of the sites we host, was getting hammered, hardcore.

To save on a very long, long, long winded story of how we battled these flooders, I am going to list what we did to get things working well again.