David Collantes

👋 Hiya! I am David Collantes, and this is my blog. I am a systems engineer at the University of Central Florida living in Orlando, Florida, with my partner, and son.

2025

June

25

• Wed Not Too Active Here

March

11

• Tue It Has Been a While

2024

August

06

• Tue Of All Things

June

13

• Thu Julienne Franus

2023

September

26

• Tue On Wisdom

May

28

• Sun Everyone is gone

2022

February

22

• Tue Twosday

2021

September

16

• Thu Alone, scared, and lonely

13

• Mon Horses don’t lie

2020

June

15

• Mon Adobe Flash Player EOL

04

• Thu Dreelix, King of Gears

2019

August

02

• Fri Automatically scheduled bank payments

July

31

• Wed Elections 2020

30

• Tue Using Gnupg and openssl for encryption

29

• Mon There is always a first time
• Mon Closing LinkedIn

12

• Fri Close my account, Robinhood!

April

25

• Thu I am sorry I was late

February

11

• Mon My friend

2018

August

24

• Fri What is happiness?

March

25

• Sun Someone is in trouble when…

22

• Thu Simplicity

17

• Sat Another meltdown
• Sat Flowers will follow
• Sat Searching for the car

15

• Thu Mueller goes after the Trump Organisation

04

• Sun On the market for a camera

January

21

• Sun About the impermanence of things

13

• Sat Grandfather has left us

2017

December

08

• Fri Unalloyed irony

October

08

• Sun On AT&T fibre

05

• Thu A downright moron

June

06

• Tue The Uber affair

May

11

• Thu Comey’s sacking

March

05

• Sun A few technical changes

February

27

• Mon An intelligent person

18

• Sat The silence of the hacks

14

• Tue Incapable of serving

12

• Sun Cleaning the plate

11

• Sat Fake email clients

09

• Thu Hard to believe

January

12

• Thu Unpresidential

08

• Sun Warming up to emoji

2016

November

09

• Wed I was wrong

October

29

• Sat What have you taught me?

June

09

• Thu Bernie Sanders keeps fighting

April

29

• Fri Violin lessons

February

17

• Wed A dangerous precedent

2015

December

17

• Thu Home alone

November

12

• Thu Amazon Cloud Drive feedback

08

• Sun American parenting is killing marriage

02

• Mon Dumping dollars left and right

01

• Sun Standard and daylight savings time

October

29

• Thu China’s two child policy

22

• Thu Big Red Bus

21

• Wed Walking and using the phone
• Wed Apple on encryption

20

• Tue Neighbors

19

• Mon Reminders

16

• Fri AP classes

13

• Tue Backing up and restoring GPG keys

11

• Sun Good office slave manual

10

• Sat The Martian
• Sat Enticement

08

• Thu Russians and Syria

05

• Mon Prediction
• Mon Of no use

04

• Sun Tempus Fugit
• Sun Space for the dead

01

• Thu On a rock

September

30

• Wed Disappointing

27

• Sun Presidential Elections 2016

26

• Sat Saturday

24

• Thu Selling out
• Thu Glowforge

23

• Wed Autumnal Equinox

22

• Tue Protecting Francis

20

• Sun Shogi

19

• Sat Microsoft Visual Studio Code

18

• Fri I loathe emoji

16

• Wed Secrets of living to be 200 years old

15

• Tue About the removal of garbage apps

14

• Mon Never-ending homework

02

• Wed Huckabee offers his support

August

29

• Sat Jekyll and Git
• Sat Using Atom

May

28

• Thu Me, but you, but me

16

• Sat Gmail.app on iOS

14

• Thu The very last of something

03

• Sun How to beat a polygraph test

02

• Sat iCloud mess

March

30

• Mon Finding little to talk about

2014

December

31

• Wed Happy 2015!

November

13

• Thu iCloud Drive on standby

July

30

• Wed Where are you from?

18

• Fri On braces

01

• Tue Microsoft and global cybercrime

June

29

• Sun Moved to a Droplet

28

• Sat Cloud backup

February

19

• Wed Four-way stop

January

07

• Tue Specialization is for Insects
• Tue Cold winter morning small talk

04

• Sat The Sands of Time

01

• Wed Happy MMXIV everyone!

2013

December

29

• Sun It is all around us

27

• Fri The joy of reading Hemingway

25

• Wed It is Christmas day
• Wed Films to watch during Christmas

24

• Tue T-Mobile and the iPad

23

• Mon Chuck Lorre Productions, 373
• Mon A Christmas tree small story

21

• Sat Hello world, or hello again!

2012

December

05

• Wed Create files on GitHub

November

19

• Mon Sprint crookery

October

31

• Wed Morale

21

• Sun Spelling bee

February

02

• Thu On the meaning of life

January

28

• Sat On AWS S3

2011

December

03

• Sat Mi vieja

October

26

• Wed Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs

05

• Wed Steve P. Jobs, 1955 - 2011

August

24

• Wed C.E.O. no longer, good bye Steve!

03

• Wed Non-Social

May

27

• Fri The ritual of seduction

13

• Fri Upcoming presidential elections

12

• Thu What I thought when my plane crashed

April

18

• Mon U.S. credit rating lowered

11

• Mon Find what you love
• Mon Drawing a blank, again

01

• Fri Many changes coming soon

March

24

• Thu Science Fair 1st place

14

• Mon Japan earthquake and tsunami

12

• Sat St. Augustine

10

• Thu Ricky Gervais - Why I’m an atheist

February

27

• Sun Happy birthday, viejo!

24

• Thu Route 53, wish I could have used you

03

• Thu Forget Hyde, moved to Jekyll!

January

27

• Thu Insignificant

20

• Thu A good day

14

• Fri Living on a Linode

12

• Wed Unknown Unknowns
• Wed The Brotherhood

04

• Tue Steal everything

2010

December

19

• Sun A Christmas tree

November

26

• Fri Mi viejo

October

08

• Fri Dragons can be killed

July

11

• Sun Viva Spain!

June

25

• Fri The Unthinkable

23

• Wed A month

20

• Sun Back from vacations

04

• Fri Kent on Principal’s List

01

• Tue R.I.P. Dixie J. McCoy

May

17

• Mon Drobo FW800

05

• Wed It’s decided

02

• Sun Bright House saga

01

• Sat Video quality while on 3G

April

29

• Thu Thoughts on Flash
• Thu iPad 3G status

28

• Wed Don’t talk to aliens

26

• Mon The wheels of justice
• Mon Paradox of the Active User

24

• Sat Weekend starts
• Sat Clan of the Cave Bear

2009

December

03

• Thu Glad I am not in North Korea

November

24

• Tue Host hunting

07

• Sat Bookmarklets I use

01

• Sun Use Google Checkout

October

22

• Thu The Hero

13

• Tue Selling iPhone

09

• Fri Bright House follow up

05

• Mon Avoid Bright House if you can

September

28

• Mon Another Facebook rant

11

• Fri September 11th

09

• Wed IP migration

04

• Fri Facebook and OpenID caching

03

• Thu Special, just like you

02

• Wed Hello world, again!

July

11

• Sat Aion, the WoW killer

08

• Wed gOS is coming our way

February

24

• Tue Safari 4 Beta

January

07

• Wed Email liturgy

2008

December

02

• Tue NETBROS.COM for sale

November

12

• Wed Yet another

October

10

• Fri Not allowed to tell

August

10

• Sun MCITP - Enterprise Server Administrator

July

02

• Wed Registration and comments disabled

May

15

• Thu Einstein on religion
• Thu China earthquake help

07

• Wed From today’s Barack’s email

06

• Tue Microsoft DRM server going offline
• Tue Hillary speaks like Bush

01

• Thu Lesbos islanders dispute gay name

April

30

• Wed Russia warned over Georgia move
• Wed Prepare to pay more

27

• Sun A day of sadness

24

• Thu Ubuntu Hardy Heron released

23

• Wed eBay sues Craigslist

22

• Tue Clinton wins in Pennsylvania, projected

21

• Mon Linuxers for Obama

17

• Thu Only in Russia

10

• Thu Olympics for sports

09

• Wed Chinese products are cheap

March

20

• Thu Talk radio after 3PM

11

• Tue Vicepresident? No, thank you

08

• Sat Overturning the unconstitutional

07

• Fri That 3:00AM call
• Fri John McCain on religion

06

• Thu Bush endorses McCain

05

• Wed The $2 Trillion Nightmare

04

• Tue I just hope…

February

21

• Thu The day Santa died

07

• Thu Within ten days!
• Thu After Super Tuesday

04

• Mon Yahoo! and the future of the Internet

01

• Fri What counts as an issue…

January

29

• Tue I will vote

14

• Mon The truth is useless

11

• Fri Don’t step in the lines

2007

December

31

• Mon Happy 2008!

28

• Fri SCO Receives Nasdaq Notice Letter
• Fri Lets us make sure

27

• Thu You are a prisoner, keep quiet!
• Thu Christmas is gone, or is it?

19

• Wed Santa gets the extra love

18

• Tue Want the darn thing?

17

• Mon Ron Paul on War and Foreign Policy
• Mon Honeymoon’s are over, honey

14

• Fri Programmers != Antisocials
• Fri I had to have them
• Fri Another Dell

13

• Thu Primary elections

09

• Sun I hate school

07

• Fri Yes, they sold it
• Fri SuperGenPass update

November

06

• Tue What a load of crock!

October

31

• Wed When you thought you hear it all

September

14

• Fri The slashes

11

• Tue We remember: Six years ago

06

• Thu Farewell Maestro

August

20

• Mon First day at school

July

17

• Tue Write Articles, Not Blog Postings

05

• Thu Ebay feedback blackmail

June

09

• Sat Kent on elderly and fitness

May

11

• Fri I shall not censure

01

• Tue C3 is no more

April

30

• Mon Made in China

16

• Mon Microsoft is a crying baby

13

• Fri Women of color?

12

• Thu Vista, don’t like it? Too bad!
• Thu iPhone is near, Leopard not so
• Thu Canon PowerShot A640

09

• Mon Thought of the day

07

• Sat GoDaddy and MediaTemple

05

• Thu Small changes here and there

March

28

• Wed Stop spamming, GoDaddy!

21

• Wed Is there any difference?

20

• Tue Two visions?
• Tue Dabbling with OpenID

February

26

• Mon More changes coming

January

08

• Mon Post Katrina crime increase

2006

December

21

• Thu It’s time to say goodbye

November

30

• Thu Why Vista is not going in
• Thu Heavy Microsoft ads on Freshmeat

15

• Wed Wired News: Apple’s iPhone is Calling

08

• Wed Winds of change

07

• Tue Craigslist founder will not sell

06

• Mon Electoral signs: my approach

October

20

• Fri The Military Commissions Act of 2006

18

• Wed Too busy, too much money or…
• Wed Three years ago

August

17

• Thu God is bad

14

• Mon We, the forgetful

June

01

• Thu Here without you - WoW

May

23

• Tue Why?

17

• Wed Blue Security has gone down

16

• Tue Nazi crimes archives set to open
• Tue Do not phone and drive

15

• Mon Why e-mails are so easily missunderstood

12

• Fri Gmail for Domains

March

08

• Wed Neoseeker: IBM will not use Windows[…]

February

23

• Thu You can’t do that!

14

• Tue Confussed

January

18

• Wed The Chocolate Imbecile

2005

October

20

• Thu BBC goes WoW again!

September

30

• Fri BBC and WoW

12

• Mon Still playing

August

24

• Wed The reason of my absence

July

13

• Wed Microsoft Security Bulletins

11

• Mon Worse hurricane season?

08

• Fri Britons, our brothers and sisters

06

• Wed Mention two

June

17

• Fri USA PATRIOT Act
• Fri Downing Street Memo

16

• Thu Happy Birthday!

15

• Wed Terri’s autopsy: What does it means?

13

• Mon They advertise with the best
• Mon Not guilty!
• Mon No more Freedom Fries?

12

• Sun Chosen by God?

10

• Fri Changes

01

• Wed Musical batons and other memes

May

29

• Sun Single sign on

28

• Sat Shameful website
• Sat PGP Corporation Decadence

March

31

• Thu Your Privacy at stake

17

• Thu I am still here

January

25

• Tue Adsense presence

12

• Wed Sex is everything
• Wed Beware!

06

• Thu More on VoIP

01

• Sat Good bye MMIV. Welcome MMV!

2004

September

29

• Wed Taking a break

25

• Sat Quiet time

11

• Sat Remembrance

10

• Fri Three in less than a month

04

• Sat A hell of a week

August

25

• Wed It is the Marketers fault!
• Wed Gmail invitations

22

• Sun Google’s Doodles

21

• Sat More on Lingo
• Sat A busy week

15

• Sun Veteran of Charley

09

• Mon I am a virus, open me!

07

• Sat Small catching up

July

31

• Sat Way too early
• Sat Dropping BellSouth

27

• Tue Flipping the switch

24

• Sat Where and what you eat…

18

• Sun Sunday morning rants
• Sun Shredder and Eggroll

14

• Wed The worse Web Browser

13

• Tue Joined the rest

11

• Sun First day

10

• Sat Week recount

05

• Mon The three of us

04

• Sun Happy 4th of July!

03

• Sat It happened again

02

• Fri In God we trust

June

28

• Mon They keep coming

26

• Sat Friday night photos

24

• Thu Visitor cleaning

22

• Tue Moved!

20

• Sun Screw SPEWS

17

• Thu Short and sweet

11

• Fri WordPress and how I did it

08

• Tue Just about there

May

31

• Mon Brainstorming

27

• Thu Parsing PHP code

25

• Tue Changing servers

21

• Fri Software gentlemans
• Fri Bob Muglia on Longhorn

20

• Thu Living on the bleeding edge
• Thu Do you want to try it?

19

• Wed Mena wants to know
• Wed Matt implements inline links
• Wed Drawing a blank

15

• Sat Update: Permalinks
• Sat Old permalinks broken

14

• Fri I am not alone

13

• Thu In the process of moving

08

• Sat Gmail invitations for sale

April

25

• Sun Fedora Core Test 3

22

• Thu Gmail is not for everyone

17

• Sat Gmail Hype

13

• Tue Spelling and grammar

11

• Sun Sun and salty water

04

• Sun Life with an XPS

March

25

• Thu Futilely insisting

20

• Sat About the spanish elections

19

• Fri Why do they even bother?

12

• Fri Expect changes

February

23

• Mon Family sticks together

06

• Fri But Death and Taxes

03

• Tue It has been a ride, UCF

January

31

• Sat To Tampa back and forth

27

• Tue Drove a lot, saw places

24

• Sat Year of the Monkey

23

• Fri On vacation now

20

• Tue Slight redesign

12

• Mon Uneventful weekend

10

• Sat Just suppose

06

• Tue Philosophical confussion

04

• Sun First working week; about to start

03

• Sat Happy Birthday Kent Martin!

2003

December

31

• Wed Happy New Year 2004!

26

• Fri Good bye 2003!

07

• Sun Winter has come

November

26

• Wed Happy Thanksgiving!

22

• Sat A moment in time

13

• Thu Got a Mac, once again

October

29

• Wed Mid-life Crisis

25

• Sat I will never be happy in this lifetime

10

• Fri That simple life

07

• Tue Mobility 20-20

September

29

• Mon Dissecting a Nigerian scam

26

• Fri Traveling, my unfulfilled hobby

20

• Sat Yet more changes

15

• Mon Money for your hobby?

14

• Sun Like a Phoenix

August

13

• Wed Some of my points of view

06

• Wed One year older

July

30

• Wed The never-ending story

16

• Wed On a training, for two days

11

• Fri Longer than anticipated

June

20

• Fri On hiatus…

14

• Sat A new server, a new life

11

• Wed A thought

09

• Mon If you have a weblog, read

05

• Thu Circa 1984

02

• Mon Newly digital

01

• Sun Back to the routinely life

May

11

• Sun Things are changing… once again

April

14

• Mon A very sad day

13

• Sun A short and tiresome weekend

12

• Sat Definitely, humans are born violent

January

27

• Mon Thanks to the Slammer, Slammed

24

• Fri From Bill Gates, with love

21

• Tue Nuclear Blackmail, North Korean Style

18

• Sat Iraq, are we going to war?

2002

December

31

• Tue Last Entry, 2002: Happy New Year!

22

• Sun Parents at home

15

• Sun Redesign on the horizon

13

• Fri Thanks god it is Friday… 13th?!

November

27

• Wed Coming back: Happy Thanksgiving!

18

• Mon How to better protect Kent Martin?

13

• Wed Kind of quiet lately, I know

01

• Fri Good bye October, hello November!

October

31

• Thu It is that time of the year: Halloween

29

• Tue I hate cell phones!

28

• Mon Excellent weekend

September

30

• Mon Interviewing potential candidates

29

• Sun Just Sunday

28

• Sat And on the seventh day he rested

19

• Thu It is friday for me

17

• Tue Mid-Autumn Festival, Mooncake!

12

• Thu It is over now, or it isn’t

11

• Wed Will this become my week’s Odyssey?

10

• Tue Close, very close but no cigar

09

• Mon Bad things come at once