I am really hoping Jack Layton is all right
I saw his presser today. He looked very thin and not well. I hope that whatever they have found is at a stage where they can beat it back into…
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Getting sentimental about IDE
As I type, OS X is installing on the new hard disk in Irene's Macbook Air. As it happens, I managed to install it. There was a time when the…
Preparing for an upgrade
Back in the days when my server was in my basement, upgrading the OS was a bit of an adventure, but it never felt terribly scary. I mean, the backup…
Replacing a hard drive in a Macbook Air: in over my head
Well that was a drag. I ordered a hard disk to replace the defunct one in Irene's Macbook Air several weeks ago. It finally arrived and I spent much of…
Feeling like much less of a dolt this evening
I figured out a problem with a site I'm meant to be supporting as part of my freelance business. It was a Drupal White Screen of Death which was not…
Carl Wilson Lake trip report
Narrative plus photos, maps, and what not now posted here. A lovely trip although I clearly didn't travel far enough and had too much time to write.
Power back on? Check. Family coming home? Check.
Things are looking good. There is, however the small matter of getting the house ready. Putting away the pizza boxes, hiding the cases of empties, taking down the posters of…
Packed and ready to go
Have I missed anything? Hope not. I'm mostly ready to go. Of course the last thing is computer related. I managed to wipe out the virtual machine I use to…
Great evening talking about bread crusts
And other things too. Really. My evening out with former comrades more than made up for the fact that I was at work nosing the grindstone right up to when…
Talisker and rock and roll
When I lived on my own, it was pretty much a certainty that if I was home, there'd be music playing. Not necessarily loud but it was playing. When first…
Heaps and heaps of laundry
So you need to wash all your bedding if someone in your family gets pinworms and you want to have a chance at getting rid of them. And that's everyone.…
Back in town, on my own recognizance
Having a beer in front of the computer. Who hoo! And the tupperware? Out of which I ate leftovers for dinner? Isn't even washed up yet! Double whoo! Bachelor week…
Field of canola
My dad rents the back 10 to a farmer - one of the last on concession. Don't think there's much money in it, but when it's canola being farmed, you…
Stiff arm
I spent most of today at my dad's place, wielding heavy duty gardening gadgetry. My dad runs a gardening business and lately his place is proof of the saying about…
More screaming. We think pinworms are back
Despite a slight reddening around her vagina, the night time only screaming makes us think it’s pinworms. Again. This is the child we’re talking about, in case that’s not clear.…
Web hosting: how the other 90 per cent live
Lately I've been doing some work on other people's websites, hosted elsewhere. It's a bit new to me how things are done these days, so forgive me if I show…
One down six to go
Today we launched one of the seven websites I need to relaunch this summer. There are still some rough patches, but it's mostly there. I hope this will start a…
So the latest version of WordPress now requires PHP 5.2
And CentOS is still offering only 5.1.6. Oh yes, I've read the reams of 'your mileage may vary' message board conversations about getting their version of 5.3 to work, but…
It’s a mighty expensive swimming lesson
But it is working. Mallory was swimming with her head underwater today. Also doing bobs without a noodle. And swimming across the pool by herself. And swimming on her back…
Have a non-oppressive Canada Day while acknowledging the country’s past as a colonialist enterprise built upon a stolen continent and our tremendous potential for social change exhale
As the parties rage on in the apartments across the street and the improv fireworks pop and boom seemingly right outside my sleeping child's window, I must confess my ambivalence…