October 18, 2026
by dhoytt
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Made More SSL Corrections Music Relays

Edited stunnel ssl corrections to the music streams by adding the chain certificates. Initially I made the music clients have to verify and return a certificate when I updated the chain but found that most the music applications I worked with didn’t have the ability of course to reply back with a certificate so I disabled the verification requirement. Now everything works well with the new ssl DV certificates! This change affects the ShoutCast and IceCast streams so update your ssl certs if your applications asks when you connect!

October 18, 2026
by dhoytt
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Making Tinctures From Garden Herbs

Still getting a decent harvest for herbs, peppers, eggplants and a few tomatoes.

Trying to find new ways to use my harvest I’m making some tinctures with my rosemary and basil.

Rosemary tincture, basil tinctures with blooms, peppers , eggplants and tomatoes in background.

October 16, 2026
by dhoytt
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Updated Site SSL Certificate Web Music Relay Servers

My ssl site certificates expired as GoDaddy has updated to DV ssl certificates due to what’s supposed to be a better experience, encryption, coverage of multiple sites, SEO rankings etc. Will be interesting to see how they work. Since that took place I decided to update my music server(w2025 data center), music relay servers (Fedora Linux 44) and my web server (Rocky Linux 9.x) OS’. I updated my WordPress along with the themes and plugins as well.

The music relay servers certificates were also updated so you can listen to the music @ https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/with confidence securely.

October 2, 2026
by dhoytt
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Another Batch of Hot Sauce

Peppers from the garden piling up again so I made some more hot sauce! Used a different method without a fermentation period so will see how it goes.

Here’s the colorful pictures.

September 29, 2026
by dhoytt
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End of Baseball Regular Season Dodgers Baseball

Went to the last Dodgers series of baseball at Oracle Park in SF for all three games. I normally catch all games of a baseball series I go to.

Took the Amtrak and stayed in the SF two nights. The Dodgers won all 3 games for the sweep and 100 wins.

As always I sat in 3 different places for each game.

Views from the Amtrak bus on leg into SF.
Chipotle Oysters from Hog Island Oysters

Clam steamers.

Pictures from all 3 games of the series!

September 5, 2026
by dhoytt
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Some Labor Day Weekend Sounds For Kicking It

The sounds are always there mixed and flowing here on Snakeice’s House of Beats but sometimes I like to interupt how I have my set mix with the backend categories and rules I hae to set the flow manually for a few hours. I chose some and then had ny rules curate and place some tunes in so I don’t get caught in a rut and then I select which ones stay that my scripts selected.

Already well into it but as normal will give an example of the artists I chose so you see the wide range. Will feature artists like Prince, PinkPantheress, Olivia Dean, Twilight 22, Eagles, Chalk showing the wide range of genres and eras.

August 29, 2026
by dhoytt
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Relishing Saturday

Created two different relishes today with produce from my garden. I did a hot pepper relish and a sweet cucumber relish.

Both relishes were pretty simple and I started with the pepper relish first. A mixture of Jalapeños, Serrano, Habanero and chili peppers, garlic, onion, vinegar, mustard seeds, sugar and salt. Chop together and heat on the stove, simmer and throw on a jar. Tasted sooo good and had a great bite of heat with lots of flavor!

The pickle relish was a similar process except I used the food processor for the ingredients of cucumbers (seeded), peppers, and onions plus added celery seeds minus garlic. Once again tasted fantastic!

During part of this process I was tasting which vinegar to use and the effect was that the vinegar seemed to help this sinus allergy type malaise I was having! Tasting the hot relish seemed to relieve the sinus pressure the medicine I had taken didn’t immediately! Amazing what happens on trying different things!

Hope to do more of this canning and preserving my produce from my garden!

Starting the pepper relish.

The pepper relish is simmering.
Pepper relish to the right cucumber relish to the right.

August 29, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Relishing Saturday

Relishing Saturday

Created two different relishes today with produce from my garden. I did a hot pepper relish and a sweet cucumber relish.

Both relishes were pretty simple and I started with the pepper relish first. A mixture of Jalapeños, Serrano, Habanero and chili peppers, garlic, onion, vinegar, mustard seeds, sugar and salt. Chop together and heat on the stove, simmer and throw on a jar. Tasted sooo good and had a great bite of heat with lots of flavor!

The pickle relish was a similar process except I used the food processor for the ingredients of cucumbers (seeded), peppers, and onions plus added celery seeds minus garlic. Once again tasted fantastic!

During part of this process I was tasting which vinegar to use and the effect was that the vinegar seemed to help this sinus allergy type malaise I was having! Tasting the hot relish seemed to relieve the sinus pressure the medicine I had taken didn’t immediately! Amazing what happens on trying different things!

Hope to do more of this canning and preserving my produce from my garden!

Starting the pepper relish.

The pepper relish is simmering.
Pepper relish to the right cucumber relish to the right.