Author: KeithMcD

  • Purdue Half Marathon and 5K

    Yesterday was the first annual Purdue Half Marathon and 5K.  It was a pretty cold day ( 43º according to the Nike Running app), but the race itself was pretty fun. As it took me days to fully recover from the half marathons that I have run, I have decided that they definitely aren’t for…

  • AMP Stack on Mountain Lion

    Last night I started getting back into coding but have since switched how I develop.  All my code is now (finally) in a local Git repository which is fantastic, but the next step was to get a local server running so I could actually see the results of my work. In the past, I’ve used…

  • Hair-b-Gone!

    Today I decided that I was kinda sick of the long hair.  So, I chopped it all off.  That is all.

  • DNS Propagation

    In setting up a new domain today I wanted to find a well-written article that explained DNS propagation in terms that anyone can understand.  I came across the article below from DevShed’s Rich Smith that is a great summary of the process and why caching of records are important. You’ve registered your domain name, and…

  • 10,000 and beyond

    This past weekend I took my car in for its last free maintenance. On my way back I finally passed 10,000 miles on it. For some reference, I bought the car new August 30 2010 with 90 miles on it!