To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve ...

Reboot was my gateway to cultivating a love of Europe, an easy facility with Europe, and a network of European friends.

The magazine section at our local Indigo has been condensed over recent months: a substantial section of magazine racks has ...

I followed up by asking ChatGPT to give me a robots.txt file that includes all of the bots, and I’ve added that to this site’s robots.txt (leaving out some friendly user-agents like NetNewsWire).

Every time I visit Province House I find something new. This time it was the skylights, which I’d never noticed before. They run all the way from the second floor up to the third floor and the roof: ...

I went looking for information about the Canada Fitness program today, and I couldn’t find anything. Perhaps it’s dead? During my elementary school years, each spring we were forced to engage in a set ...

From the official rules for the Tim Hortons Roll Up the Rim to Win Contest (PDF): ...

Because I was raised in an era when we were willing to conceive of mobile devices as servers as much as clients, it’s always bothered me that the ability to mount an Android phone’s storage on a ...

I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...

Remember ALLEX and ELSIR and the Fish Points, two rabbit holes I fell into earlier in the week? Well part of my struggle for coming to understand this world of aeronautical waypoints has been my weak ...

In the summer of 1950, Ben Carlin and his wife Elinore left Halifax, Nova Scotia in a World War II amphibious jeep, nicknamed Half-Safe, bound, ultimately, for Birmingham, England. Carlin’s book ...

You had to see this coming: Oliver and I walked the 1.3 km to Dairy Queen tonight after supper so as to throw off the shackles of my childhood and have Dilly Bars for dessert. And to engage in ...