Restore an old fire hydrant to make awesome office art!

Restore an old fire hydrant to make awesome office art!

I really enjoy industrial design. Objects that have been created for a specific purpose tend to encompass clean and honest design with no pretense.  Recently I began lusting after fire hydrants. A quick Craig’s List search and I was in the money! Below is...
DIY hollow book safes for kids

DIY hollow book safes for kids

The kids and I made 13 book safes for all the kids that we shared the New Year’s weekend with in Mammoth. How to make book safes The process is easy and takes around 45 minutes per book, here are quick instructions: Hard cover books work best – if you...
Site upgrade

Site upgrade

I think it has been almost 10 years since I gave zinkwazi.com a new look.  I recently migrated to the Divi theme for WordPress (which is amazing and powerful) and so here it is, a new design! Many thanks to the awesome team over at Khoza Technology for hosting this...
pfSense Multi Site Backup Script

pfSense Multi Site Backup Script

I manage many pfSense firewalls and have just pushed a useful backup script to GitHub that we use to automate backups of all the remote pfSense boxes. You can read more at Outside Open or head over to GitHub to grab a copy.  
Outside Open launches new web site!

Outside Open launches new web site!

Outside Open has a new web site!  As many of you know, Trevor Young and I launched OO almost two years ago. We have been looking forward to getting a site up but have had the excellent problem of too much work.   We built the site internally, (because...