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2026

2025

Nov 22 Blogs are making a comeback?
Oct 21 New Album: Shadow Person – Chronic Disappointment
Aug 22 Blogging Platforms in 2025
Aug 10 2025 Banana Open Mixed Doubles 2.5 Tournament Champions
Aug 5 The Tennis Channel App on Roku – Crashes and other problems
Jul 20 Obsidian.md and Plugin Security
Jul 19 Building Fully Remote Team Communication
Jul 11 Getting out of it what you put into it
Jun 12 The Toxic Utility of AI
Feb 16 Cleaning Up Apple Contacts
Feb 15 LinkedIn is at Peak Enshittifaction
Feb 15 The Stars Served Up Some Love
Jan 22 The Modlins
Jan 12 Integration – New Album by Shadow Person

2024

Oct 23 Hurricane Helene Relief – Music Specials
Sep 17 Shadow Person’s new album – Octopus
Aug 19 Bugs inside the house?
May 6 Welcome To My World
Jan 31 Shadow Person – CD’s Available Now
Jan 15 All In One SEO Plugin in 2024: Avoid it like the plague

2023

Nov 1 O, Death

2022

Dec 9 The Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) Exam
Sep 10 Ska City promo reel
Aug 23 We took this guy to Ska City

2021

Nov 26 Self Hosting – Cloudron
Oct 30 New Music
Jun 4 Will Chatham’s Musical Variety Show is out!
Apr 24 Linux File Transfer Techniques

2020

Dec 17 What to Expect on Your First Time in a Recording Studio
Aug 10 A new song – Reno Ride
May 9 My New Single: You’re Not Going Anywhere

2019

Dec 22 Ska City at The Odditorium
Nov 16 Merle – Lost Recordings
Sep 24 “Smart” Door Lock Drilled Open in 4 Seconds
Aug 31 Thoughts on OSCP being ‘outdated’
Jun 2 Music Updates
Mar 18 Picking a Master Lock M5 Magnum
Mar 8 OWASP Attack Surface Detector Project
Mar 7 Kali Linux Dockerfile
Mar 6 Music Updates
Jan 3 The InfoSec World Has a Python 2.7 Problem

2018

Nov 11 A few new resources for pentesting/OSCP/CTFs
Oct 4 The Unofficial OSCP FAQ
Jun 23 Captured The Flag
May 27 Using IFTTT to connect Reddit to Discord
May 25 Ghostery’s GDPR Privacy Fail
May 10 What Note Taking App is Best for PWK and OSCP?
Apr 13 Windows Privilege Escalation (privesc) Resources
Mar 27 Facebook, Privacy, and Staying Safe Online
Mar 21 Social Media Mayhem
Feb 10 Firefox Captive Portal Spam in Burp Suite

2017

Dec 20 Date Night Appetite, Because Writing & Eating are Fun
Oct 24 OSCP and PWK Tips, Resources & Tools
Oct 9 OSCP Achieved – Offensive Security Certified Professional
Jul 29 BSides Asheville – 2nd Place CTF
Jul 27 My Slides from Drupal Camp Asheville 2017
Jul 12 4 External USB Wifi Adapters for Kali Linux Pentesting
Jun 19 Tool Sharpening
Jun 17 Microsoft Windows has Free Virtual Machines
Jun 16 Buffer Overflow Overview
Jun 14 Metasploit Tidbits
May 31 Speaking at Drupal Camp Asheville
May 21 A jQuery 1.x vulnerability exists and no fix is planned
May 21 Kioptrix 1.4 (VM 5) Walkthrough
May 21 Moria: A Boot2Root VM Walkthrough
May 6 Biggest Online Security Breaches in 2017 So Far
Mar 14 Quick Metasploit Guide
Mar 14 Kioptrix Level 1.3 (VM #4) Walkthrough

2016

Dec 30 Decluttering
Nov 15 Let’s Revisit: Sending Mass Emails The Right Way
Oct 22 Writing for Listverse is a Waste of Your Time
Aug 20 WordPress Security from WordCamp Asheville 2016
Aug 18 Slides from Asheville WordPress Meetup
Aug 2 The NSA Hacks System Administrators
Jul 31 Cracking Password-Protected MS Office Files
Jun 4 WordCamp Asheville – Slides, Notes, etc
May 30 Have you been pwned?
May 19 The Millennium Falcon was a Freighter
May 3 Speaking at WordCamp Asheville – June 3 – 5, 2016
Apr 2 Random Links
Mar 26 Let’s Encrypt The World
Feb 2 Two Rules
Jan 24 We Cut The Cord!
Jan 23 The Chatham Boys

2015

Nov 16 The Slippery Slope of Encryption and Terrorism
Nov 5 Gluten Deprivation Project: Day 17
Oct 19 Gluten Deprivation Project: Day 1
Oct 18 The Gluten Deprivation Project
Oct 16 Quest
May 30 Walgreens CAN-SPAM Violation
May 23 Finding the Original Starbucks Coffee Cake
May 21 Net Neutrality, Consumer Privacy
May 17 What Does Facebook Know About You?
May 15 NordVPN’s Bait and Switch
Apr 24 Spies Like Us
Mar 28 TrueCar.com Violates the CAN-SPAM Act
Mar 11 Are You Putting Your WordPress Site at Risk?
Feb 27 Where WordPress is Headed
Feb 2 Why I Left Facebook For Good

2014

Oct 24 Quest
Oct 23 Security Update – Links & Tips
Oct 12 Reno Style Banjo
Sep 27 Charter Communications Nightmare
Jun 26 Netflix on Apple TV 2: “An error occurred loading this content”
Jun 21 As the Earth Spins, or, Chatham Family News
May 26 Snagit Charges for “Upgrade”
Apr 27 So Long Internet, and Thanks For All the Cats
Apr 18 Looks Like It Was Fun
Apr 11 Things I have recently quit
Apr 10 Serious Vulnerability in WordPress Jetpack Plugin
Mar 29 Don’t Fear The Bacon, Baby Stormtrooper
Mar 11 Gigabit Internet Coming to Asheville Soon
Mar 2 Ancient 10,000-year-old trees revealed on the Isle of Man
Feb 27 Church of Bacon? Sign me up.
Feb 25 Riker Googling
Feb 25 Apple FINALLY fixes Mac OS X SSL bug
Feb 20 Time to abandon home page sliders for good
Feb 20 I Am a Ukrainian – You Must Watch This
Feb 13 Time To Abandon Social Sharing Icons?
Feb 8 Free Stock Photos: Many Resources
Feb 2 I know this picture very, very well
Jan 29 The Social Media Disappointment
Jan 27 Facebook can now read your texts
Jan 26 New Website for The Night Trotters
Jan 18 Credit Card Hacking Goes Much Further Than Target
Jan 15 3 Million Teens Leave Facebook In 3 Years
Jan 14 Net Neutrality Is Dead
Jan 12 40 Maps
Jan 11 Disney plans to remake the Star Wars expanded universe
Jan 11 Target breach grows to 110 million users
Jan 8 Find The Perfect WordPress Theme
Jan 3 Yavin 4, 1930’s style

2013

Dec 31 Eyes on the Prize
Dec 19 Target’s Nightmare: Credit Card Theft
Dec 15 Designing Snowflakes
Dec 11 WordPress 3.8 May Come Tomorrow
Dec 11 Troll level: Expert
Dec 8 Adios, Feedly
Nov 14 Will’s Musical News and Events
Oct 27 Words and Sayings That Annoy Me
Oct 16 Responsive Design and WordPress
Aug 24 Hey Microsoft, I Heard You Need a New CEO
Jul 14 Should You Use A Carousel?
Jul 14 Some neat life hacks
Jul 5 Neato
May 19 GeoGuessr – Hours of Fun
Apr 21 I Wish I Still Had These Overalls
Apr 20 Former Hostgator employee charged with rooting 2,700 servers
Apr 14 Tips, Tricks, Enhancements
Mar 12 A Brilliant Analysis of the Battle of Hoth
Mar 3 Leaving Evernote
Feb 28 One apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree
Feb 16 The Night Trotters
Jan 20 Reader Poll
Jan 17 Cable Companies: Monopolizing Progress Prohibitors
Jan 9 Carbonite for Mac Eats Up CPU
Jan 3 Deep Chatham is a thing?
Jan 3 Your Personal Details – Shared

2012

Dec 31 Saturday was a good day
Dec 30 Private Security Drones
Dec 30 Internet Explorer 0-day
Dec 23 Meat
Dec 17 WordPress Pingback Vulnerability
Dec 17 The Links menu in WordPress 3.5 didn’t actually go away
Dec 10 That square QR barcode on the poster? Check it’s not a sticker
Nov 30 The Best Website Ever Created
Nov 19 Dear WordPress Theme Developers
Nov 19 Evernote 5 for Mac
Nov 11 Renegotiate your cable bill today
Sep 29 My first solo album is out
Aug 16 Free Flash Drives
Jul 19 So long, old friend.
Jul 2 Announcing The Declaration Of Internet Freedom
Jul 1 Better Names for Snack Foods
Jul 1 10 Shocking Secrets of Flight Attendants
Jun 30 9 Abandoned Islands Where Time Has Stopped
Jun 30 Some New Tunes
Jun 28 How LinkedIn Has Turned Your Resume Into A Cash Machine – Forbes
Jun 16 Failed WordPress Upgrade
Jun 16 My New Etsy Shop
Jun 7 UFO Sighting: Orange lights over Reynold’s Mountain in Asheville
Jun 1 Verizon Succesfully Defends Privacy of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates | TorrentFreak
May 28 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.4 — Technosailor.com
May 21 Coda 2 Coming Out This Week
May 20 Steep Canyon Rangers
May 18 Social Media Hell
May 17 Goodbye, Facebook
May 14 The Illusion of Choice
May 9 Quick, Easy, and Cheap VPN for Mac
May 8 PHP-CGI Exploit is in the wild. Get protected ASAP.
May 8 Nextgen Gallery Instruction Manual & Help
May 6 Hide Yourself From Social Networks (and others)
May 6 The Geekamongus Discussion Forum is Open
May 5 Penn
May 4 My office mate for the day.
Apr 30 Better WP Security
Apr 30 Like father, like son
Apr 29 Magnifying glass inspection
Apr 28 Cannonball
Apr 28 (untitled)
Apr 25 Pinterest for Jetpack?
Mar 31 Massive Credit Card Security Breach
Feb 14 Fill This Out
Feb 2 So what?
Jan 12 Stopping SOPA by Appealing to Your Mom
Jan 11 Crain stuff for sale…again
Jan 5 Declining Movie Theater Attendance Explained

2011

Dec 30 Dump GoDaddy Day
Dec 27 VMware – RHEL / CentOS 6.2 – Network Issues
Dec 14 Stop SOPA now
Dec 13 WordPress Image Map Problems
Dec 4 SNORT Subscriptions for the rest of us!
Nov 5 Some Tunes I’ve Been Working On
Oct 11 Rockin it old school
Oct 11 WordPress First & Last Navigation Items
Oct 4 Mates of State
Oct 3 Some Updates
Sep 25 New Therapist In Town
Jul 3 Summer Time
May 29 Quick overview: H vs S vs E IPS monitors
May 24 (untitled)
Apr 13 WordPress and jQuery issues
Mar 29 Guatemala Day Something
Mar 28 Guatemala Day Three
Mar 27 Guatemala Day One
Mar 14 Apple Mail “smtp.xxxx.com:xxxxx” offline
Jan 24 Install missing GarageBand Content (loops etc.)
Jan 18 The power of stock photography

2010

Oct 16 Waiting
Oct 12 Oonce-Oonce
Jul 13 iTunes App Store Category ID’s
Jun 30 Firefox 4 beta 1
Jun 20 Someone misunderstands the Silly Band craze
Jun 14 Funny Pic
Jun 8 Our Priorities Are Totally Wrong
May 31 You Are Small.
May 31 The Cerebellum LP – Available for Download
May 31 Encrypted Google Search
May 26 Star Wars Preschooler
May 16 More from the Cerebellum show
May 16 Cerebellum 2010 – “House”
May 4 May the 4th Be With You
May 3 Practical Security Round-up
Apr 27 The BBC’s lack of a sense of humor
Apr 13 Is It Possible To Be Happy?
Apr 9 Best caption ever
Mar 19 My List of Favorite Smells
Mar 15 Taco Bell knows what’s up
Mar 8 Energizer battery charger contains backdoor
Mar 7 High End Desktop for a Low End price
Mar 2 CD Archival and Re-Encoding – Using FLAC and LAME
Mar 2 Connect your blog with Facebook
Feb 27 Today’s Mind-Blowing Factoid
Feb 19 Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’
Jan 28 Defective by Design
Jan 28 You Dirty Rats
Jan 18 Imperial Walkers have entered the area. In Kansas.
Jan 10 MP3/ACC ID Tag issues (iTunes / PS3) – Part 2
Jan 9 MP3/ACC ID Tag issues (iTunes / PS3) – Part 1

2009

Dec 31 Twenty not Two-Thousand
Dec 31 Can’t Install Firebug in Firefox
Dec 30 Hidden features in phpMyAdmin
Dec 1 Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars – information aesthetics
Nov 29 DOg2k.jpg JPEG Image, 603×412 pixels
Nov 20 RTFM
Nov 20 Frack
Nov 16 This is the droid you are looking for
Nov 5 Credit Cards: Fees, Minimum Amounts, and Your Rights
Oct 29 A Magazine For Everything
Oct 28 What Your Internet Plan Will Look Like Without Net Neutrality
Oct 26 Best Buy Officially Sucks
Oct 23 In 1994, Calvin predicted 2009.
Oct 14 Avoid Microsoft Windows When Banking Online
Oct 3 Personal AntiVirus for Linux – ClamAV with Fedora 11
Oct 1 McDonald’s in the USA
Sep 26 Missing Tooth
Sep 25 FedExing
Sep 7 Edumicate Me
Sep 4 Some Super Useful Apps
Aug 25 RHEL 5.3 and Depsolve problems in Yum
Aug 2 How to recover MySQL’s “root” password quickly
Jul 1 Remember GMail Invites
Jun 23 Fedora 11 – VMware Workstation 6.5.2
Jun 23 Fedora 11 – Intel / ATI – KMS bugs with video drivers
Jun 19 Redirecting root’s Email on Red Hat
Jun 11 Are downloads really killing the music industry? No.
Jun 10 More on The Dangers of Facebook
Jun 8 User Management: Passwords
Jun 5 Fake Blind Guy
Jun 2 The Ultimate Lock Picker
May 29 Schwarzenegger Makes A Crack About Limbaugh’s Weight – The Atlantic Politics Channel
May 27 FaceBook Quizzes – Another Reason Facebook Suck
May 27 Clowns Kicked KKK Asses – Neatorama
May 26 Joke review boosts T-shirt sales
May 26 IBM exec calls Vista the best recruiter for Linux
May 25 Diversity of Species
May 24 Something Really Important
May 22 Practical Security: Resources from the US Government
May 13 How To Hire a Web Designer
May 1 More YouTube/Warner Fallout
Apr 18 Garbage Bear’s Debut
Apr 8 Local Restaurant Scam
Apr 8 Facebook Hacking
Apr 1 Simple SSH Tunneling with FoxyProxy
Mar 28 30% off coupon for Dell Latitude
Mar 28 WordPress and special characters
Mar 28 Rescan the SCSI bus w/out rebooting
Mar 14 SWAT in 60 seconds
Mar 14 SAMBA – Home Directory Shares Made Easy
Mar 10 Hacking Experts Exchange
Mar 3 Apple has new goodies……sort of
Mar 2 Geeky Greats: Free Apps For Better Geekery
Feb 27 Funny Quote
Feb 24 RHEL and KVM Agenda
Feb 20 Black Hat DC 2009
Feb 19 Ubuntu Pocket Guide & Reference – FREE!
Feb 16 Verizon Wireless Broadband – RHEL 5.x / CentOS 5.x
Feb 8 Vmware / Vmtools under CentOS 5.x Guests
Feb 5 Bellsouth Rejects Email
Feb 4 YouTube Takedown: EFF To the Rescue?
Jan 31 Cacti on Fedora 10 – Part 1
Jan 31 Vmware Workstation 6.5 and Linux (host) kernel update woes
Jan 28 YouTube Takedown: Part Quatro
Jan 27 YouTube Takedown: Part Tres
Jan 27 The YouTube Takedown: Part Deux
Jan 24 Linux runs 80% of the worlds top HPC’s
Jan 24 SuSE Studio – Custom VM’s built on the web?
Jan 23 YouTube Is Out To Get Me
Jan 21 Vmware – Linux Host / Linux Guest – Keyboard Mappings Issues
Jan 21 RealVNC on RedHat Enterprise 5
Jan 19 The Forum Is Back
Jan 18 RHEL – Xen vs. KVM
Jan 18 Backing Up Tons of Email
Jan 16 OpenJDK6 – Java 1.6.x on CentOS 5.x
Jan 16 I’m Back!
Jan 15 Google Notebook Is Being Ditched

2008

Dec 31 Microsoft to lay off 17% of its staff in January.
Dec 27 Sim City for iPhone Cheats
Dec 16 Practical Security: Web Browser Vulnerabilities
Dec 3 Apple Attacks On The Rise?
Dec 1 PCI Compliance
Nov 26 Google Responds to GMail Vulnerability Allegations
Nov 23 GMail Vulnerability? Watch Your Back.
Nov 10 Who’s hogging the pipe?
Nov 10 Practical Security: Wireless Network Security & WPA
Nov 1 More on Putty
Oct 31 HTML Form Elements for Photoshop
Oct 30 Configure Putty Settings For Improved Performance
Oct 16 Geeky Greats: Useful & Interesting Web Sites
Oct 6 This Web Site is Changing
Sep 2 Google Chrome – Installation
Sep 1 Google Chrome – The GBrowser
Aug 29 Captchas. No, I didn’t sneeze.
Aug 27 Setting up Samba Shares on RedHat Enterprise 5
Aug 22 Some CSS Resources
Aug 21 Apple Doesn’t Understand This “Secure” Thing
Aug 21 SSH Apps for iPhone
Aug 20 Big Foot Hoax
Aug 10 Resurrection: Geekamongus.com
Aug 8 Practical Security: Secure Email on Public Wifi Spots
Aug 8 Practical Security : Using Email on Public Wifi
Aug 6 New Pictures
Aug 6 Handy Links for Your Pleasure
Jul 29 Al Gore Did Not Create The Internet
Jul 24 Geeking Out
Jul 22 Seeking Linux Admin
Jul 22 OMFG it’s WordPress for iPhone/Touch
Jul 15 Office 2007 Mime-Types for Apache
Jul 9 Handy Geek Links for Your Wednesday
Jul 8 Cool Tool
Jul 8 McBurger
Jul 8 Time to Abandon Internet Explorer 6?
Jul 7 Blogging by email
Jun 29 The Whappers news
Jun 1 Rocking in Boone, Part I
May 24 Geek Humor
Apr 26 What’s Been Happening
Apr 4 The Whappers demo released
Mar 17 The Music Biz
Mar 9 The Chancel Cats
Jan 26 The Whappers

2007

Dec 10 Happy Holidays and stuff
Oct 20 Rockin’, Part Deux
Oct 12 Rockin’
Sep 16 Recent Stuff
Aug 20 Server Update – Part II
Aug 15 Server Update
Aug 2 I Got Haxx0r3d
Jul 30 Falling Empire
Jul 7 Linux Is Here To Stay
Jun 24 Thingitudes
Jun 8 Beachin
May 28 Links and News
May 22 A New One
May 19 Found Sound
Apr 18 Geeky Stuff
Apr 13 Kurt Vonnegut, Dead at 84
Mar 30 Song Of The Week: March 30, 2007
Mar 23 Song Of The Week: March 23, 2007
Mar 21 The Future of Music
Mar 16 Song Of The Week: March 16, 2007
Mar 16 The Biggest Shot In The Foot Ever?
Mar 15 Part II: Setting up Apache, Tomcat, and mod_jk on RHEL4
Mar 10 How To Make Square Corners With CSS
Mar 1 Setting up Apache, Tomcat, and mod_jk on RHEL4
Feb 27 Pardon Our Dust
Feb 22 Coincidences
Jan 15 Oh baby!!!

2006

2005

2004

2002

Jul 12 Is this any better?
Jul 12 Of Cats And Calvins
Jul 10 Once again, the masses have spoken
Jul 9 Fame, at last
Jul 8 The masses have spoketh