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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.
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: ...
The magazine section at our local Indigo has been condensed over recent months: a substantial section of magazine racks has ...
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 Google Maps you can click on any point of interest on the map to see details and, optionally, you can click “Save” to save the point for later reference. When you click “Save” you’re presented with ...
I encountered the following fields on a government form required to set up electronic payments and I couldn’t figure out what each meant: This seems to happen every time I am asked for this ...
In support of our June This Box is for Good, Lisa and I created a grid of overlapping inks yesterday, to see how different ink colours, at different transparencies, interact with each other. I liked ...
I’m forever looking for ways to make finding library books easier, and recently I found something that I use almost every day, a “shortcut” for iOS and macOS that let’s me easily search the PEI Public ...