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[Political] Personal Minimums

Alex Siegman — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600

In aviation, we have a concept called “Personal Minimums.” These are very important, life or death even. The idea is that you have minimum requirements to make a safe go / no-go decision about a flight. If the various conditions surrounding a proposed flight don’t meet your personal minimums as …

New Site Layout

Alex Siegman — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600

Changed from using Wordpress to something a lot more simple and secure - Pelican. Pelican is a static site generator written in Python, similar to Jekyll and others. I found Pelican a bit more confusing to learn than I did Jekyll, which I used to prototype a flying club website. However …

Blast from the Past – Private Pilot Checkride Debrief

Alex Siegman — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500

I was cleaning up some old documents I had laying around, and found my personal debrief of my Private Pilot Checkride. I wrote this right after I finished my drive home from the checkride, a few years ago on 4/27/2012. Hopefully, my notes and thoughts will help others …

Using SSH in scripting and understanding it’s exit code

Alex Siegman — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500

As a Linux Systems Administrator I do quite a bit of scripting, and oftentimes I’m doing much of this in bash especially when using Jenkins or Hudson to give a nice interface and accessibility to build and deployment for the shop I’m working with. Often times, you want …

My alter ego is “famous.”

Alex Siegman — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500

I’m an avid gamer, and I still dable in my first MMO experience ever: EverQuest. I’ve had the fortune of attending SOE Live and participating (and winning, alongside my guild mates) in their EQ tournaments a few times.

SOE Recently did a Podcast celebrating EQ’s 14^{th …}