Some of you may have read my posts about Server Beach’s dedicated hosting (managed and un-managed servers). I was fortunate enough to be invited to their first customer appreciation dinner in San Francisco last night at Town Hall. It is always great to be able to put a face to a name, or in this [...]

Well, my homebrewing skills increased a little this weekend after I tried my hand at “all grain” brewing on Saturday and Sunday. All grain brewing uses malted grains (grains that have started the germination process and are then stopped) rather than malt extract (sugar syrup created from mashing malted grains). Using malted grains rather than [...]

Well, you learn a few things along the way in life. One of the lessons I learned recently is that no matter how many beers you have had, it never makes sense to dump 1.5lbs of spent caramel malt (grain) down your sink drain. Even if you run 5 gallons of water down behind it, [...]

Ok, sorry about all of that java link crap on here. I had to pull the Kontera stuff as it was just too slow. Not that I was really paying much attention, but now that I did, I pulled it. I think the Kontera link system was worth about $50 to $100 a month…not enough [...]

Every once in a while you come across a company that just gets it. They get it so well that you forget that you use them, pay them, etc. Server Beach is one of those companies for me. I have dedicated servers with a couple of different companies and I have to say that Dedicated [...]

I am not dead…not yet anyway. I have been away from this place for a bit, but I am going to get back on the posting train here shortly. While I have to head out pretty soon, I wanted to say that I have started brewing again…and I love it. There have been a great [...]