An Amazon Web Services outage early Monday morning is still causing havoc online as millions wake up to no Reddit and disruptions in cloud computing environments.  Amazon has not disclosed the cause of the outage and says things are improving.  The outage stems from the enormous data centers in the eastern United States that power giant swaths of the internet.  The outage is even affecting front line operations in the […]

Flying the Diamond DA-62 over the Canadian Maritimes in Microsoft Flight simulator 2020!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiX_Wspatw The two surviving members of the Canadian power house progressive rock band Rush are set to start a new tour with a new drummer.  It marks the first time since longtime drummer Neil Peart's death in 2020 that they will play together with a new drummer as Rush. In a video posted to YouTube they describe the experience of jamming with drummer Annika Nilles, and how great of a […]

Initially developed and released by Gearbox Software in 2001, second Half-Life add-on, Half-Life: Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility and another look at the Incident's consequences from the eyes of Gordon Freeman's best friend - Barney Calhoun. In 2012, Crowbar Collective has delighted Half-Life fans with release of the magnificent Half-Life remake, but there are still no released remakes for add-ons. This is when we […]

Had a chance to visit the Smithsonian National  Zoo a few weekends ago.  The reptile house is currently undergoing renovations, but had a great time using my new camera and taking all these cool pictures of all the reptiles.  Don't they look amazing?