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My First Autonomous Drive

I took delivery of my brand-new 2025 Tesla Model 3 with Full Self Driving (Supervised) on Thursday, January 30th. I have only put 63 miles on the odometer in that time, but I have truly driven about 10 of those miles. The remainder have all been done autonomously, and it

Tutorial

NBT: Using Debian to clone your storage

If you want to replace your hard drive in your PC without loosing any data. Follow these steps. 1) Start by acquiring a USB Flash Drive. The data on this flash drive will be lost in this process, so if you are not starting with a fresh new flash drive,

Tutorial

NBT: Cast Windows 11 PC to FireStick

1) On the Windows 11 PC open Settings -> Apps -> Optional Features 2) Select "View features" under "Add an optional feature" at the top. 3) Search for "Wireless Display", select the checkbox to the right of that line item and select next. 4) Click "Install". While waiting

Software Engineering

Did you WannaCRY?

Friday, May 12, 2017, is one of the most important days of my career. It very well could have ended in complete disaster. However, thanks to our fundamental training in cyber security we escaped with minimal damage. Just before 3am that morning, the infamous ransomware cryptoworm "WannaCRY" was unleashed on

Microsoft

Better Together

My second week at Microsoft is on the books now and it is evident that I will be extremely busy in my new role. I don't necessarily intend for this blog to be a weekly journal about my Microsoft employment. However, this is what I have at the forefront of

Microsoft

Hello World

Mentorship is good and all, but Sponsorship is where we really achieve growth.