**7 Excentric Boozes for the collection**

For something a little different this time we're going to take a
quick look at some interesting, expensive, and damn I just gotta try
bottles ranging from Bacon infused Vodka to $150 bottle of beer..

Bakon Vodka - $30/bottle http://www.bakonvodka.com

A new premium-quality potato vodka infused with a savory bacon
flavor. Distilled from Idaho potatoes and possessing a perfect hint of
peppery bacon flavor. Great in a bloody mary, good when paired with
scotch, not so hot in a white russian

TY KU White Sake - $150/bottle
http://www.trytyku.com/tyku08/new_w.html

I'm not a huge sake fan in the first place, but the bottle looks
awesome and is supposely one of the better sakes around.

Cruzan Single Barrel Estate Rum - $30/bottle
http://www.1-877-spirits.com/spirits/cruzan-single-barrel-estate

I'm a huge rum fan, and this has replaced my bottle of capitan and
bacardi in my cabinet. It's a very smooth drink, but is not a mojito
mixing rum by any means.

ri 1 Whiskey - $50/bottle http://www.ri1whiskey.com/

Pronounced "rye one," this 92 proof rye whiskey from the makers of
Jim Beam features a slightly spicy, peppery flavor when sipped
straight, revealing more strongly its dried fruit and cinnamon notes
when cut with water. - Yeah, not a huge whiskey person but hey it
looks good and decent.

Casa Dragones Tequila - $330/bottle
http://www.1-877-spirits.com/brand/Casa-Dragones-Tequila/UncrateLP

Handmade in small batches, Casa Dragones Tequila is not your average
booze. Each bottle is finished by a Maestro Tequilero, mixing platinum
tequila with a dab of extra añejo for an incredibly smooth taste.
Delivered in a handcrafted, reusable crystal decanter, it's meant for
sipping, not shooting.

Mansithe - $56/bottle
http://www.absinthe.de/en/shop/all-absinthe/article/mansinthe/

Leave it to Marilyn Manson to come up with a stellar brand of
absinthe. Mansinthe ($56/bottle) is the result of a two-year
collaboration between the Antichrist Superstar, Absinthe.de, and the
Swiss speciality distillery Matter-Luginbühl AG

Sam Adams Utopia - $150/bottle http://www.samueladams.com/

Yeah, not your normal bottle of suds, but most certainly the most
expensive Sam Adam's I've ever seen. Supposely it's quite good. The
2009 batch is the strongest yet, with a staggering 27% alcohol by
volume rating (a standard beer is about 5%). The rich, dark,
uncarbonated (and world's strongest)

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**Current Music Addiction - Them Crooked Vultures**

So I've been needing some new quirkly background noise that wasn't
CNBC or FoxNews, so I've turned back to my good friends Pandora,
Last.fm, and Slacker. I've been listening to the "Them Crooked
Vultures" channel religiously, and have found that I've really grown
attached to them. My favorite song thus far is Mind Eraser, No Chaser,
definitely worth downloading their entire albumn as it's a good
listen.

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**Netflix OnDemand Must Watch**

Steel Toe - An American History X type movie really good though

Senseless - Saw meets Fight Club sorta kinda

Boot Camp

Miller's Crossing - Old movie, but very good.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

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**Webapp of the Week - Hootsuite**

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Since I've been having such a crappy time getting Adobe Air to work
right on my laptop I've had to search out other ways of getting my
twitter fix. Hootsuite gives a very competive interface to that of
Seesmic Web. Though I like Seesmic Web better than Hootsuite, there
are some features such as link analytics that Hootsuite provides that
I like better.

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**Sysadmin Tool of the Week - Fully Automated Nagios**

Fully Automated Nagios (FAN), is a CentOS based linux distro that
installs and preconfigures everything that you need for a complete
Nagios installation.

Here is the list of tools provided by FAN:

Nagios <http://www.nagios.org/>
: Core monitoring application
Nagios plugins <http://nagiosplugins.org/>
: plugins to monitor servers
Centreon <http://www.centreon.com/>
: web frontend for Nagios (Centreon is one of the better tools for
that!)
NagVis <http://www.nagvis.org/>
: a great tools for configuring maps
NDOUtils <http://www.nagios.org/download/addons/>
: Nagios module to store monitoring data in MySQL
NRPE <http://www.nagios.org/download/addons/>
: the check_nrpe plugin (NRPE daemon is not provided)
NaReTo (Nagios Reporting Tools) <http://www.nareto.org/>
: a great tool for getting availabilty report

I deployed a fully operational and configured Nagios server in under
2 hours compared with this distribution, compared to the 5+ hours of
manually peicing it together. The absolute best thing about this
distrobution is that it keeps intact the proper Centos repos so you
can leverage this as a inclusive monitoring server by installing
Zenoss alongside Nagios and if you need any other Network
troubleshooting software like netcat, ntop installed you can do it out
of the box.

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