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I have a healthy fear of high current electrical equipment. Anything over an amp and I'm looking for a way to disconnect the mains and insulate myself. I don't mess with microwaves or the internals of old CRTs without serious trepidation. But some people are built different... like this guy, on...
on May 1
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This has been an interesting year so far. I've posted some fairly lengthy diatribes expressing my thoughts and feelings. But I am just a powerless voice in the woods of western Canada, so shaking my fist at the sky is more a bit of personal therapy than any kind of action towards solution. But my [...]
on Apr 30
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My days since retirement have been very relaxed. I don't fret too much about what I do or do not do, I enjoy an afternoon nap most days, and I wake up around 8:00 am if I feel like it. I rarely feel rushed. "Mañana" is my favourite word. But I think I have recently [...]
on Apr 17
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I have been pondering what to write about 'Liberation day' since April 2- the day itself. Trump unleashed the stupidest tariff war, writing off over six trillion dollars of stock market value in the two days that followed. The stock market isn't the economy but any time the stock market drops...
on Apr 15
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I purchased a cargo trailer a few weeks back shortly after working out my plans for having one. It is a basic 7 foot wide, 12 foot long, 6'6" tall box on wheels with a cargo ramp on the back and a human-sized door on the side. I got it home from Kelowna on March [...]
on Apr 6
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Throwback: Personal Philosophy [2003]
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From time to time I look back at something I wrote on this blog years ago. It sometimes feels like I'm reading the words of a completely different person whom I barely recognize. Other times it seems like past me knew exactly what he was talking about. Back in June of 2003 I wrote a [...]
on Mar 21
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I received my new MacBook Air on Friday, and finished migrating my configuration to it a few hours later. This 2025 model replaces the 2020 version I've been using happily as my primary 'browsing' computer. And so far at least I'm happy with the upgrade. The new MacBook Air is clearly faster...
on Mar 15
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It has been an... interesting? ... year so far. What is going on to the south of us here in Canada is beyond weird- every day makes me feel more and more like I'm living in the world portrayed in the movie Idiocracy. Coming off an end of 2024 that saw the passing of two [...]
on Mar 7
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I've been doing something akin to 'blogging' on the Internet for quite a few years. I don't have an exact date that I started and the definition of 'blogging' is kind of tenuous. But my notes indicate that I began sharing my thoughts and opinions on the web sometime around 1998 or 1999. Every once [...]
on Mar 2
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I've got a few 'plans' over the next couple of years where having a cargo trailer would be a benefit. I am at the point where I'm pricing out options and starting to read/watch videos on towing. This video is extremely helpful and very educational......
on Mar 1
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The world is topsy turvy at the moment. There are a lot of things being done by Trump and Musk that sicken me and frankly should outrage any American worthy of being called a citizen. But if there is one thing I have to pick that angers me the most it is how the U.S. [...]
on Feb 28
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Telus broke my network…and fixed it again
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Short version: Telus installed an upgraded network device. First it broke our landline phone, then our inbound network connectivity thereby disconnecting my blogs. I spent hours on the phone with Telus support, and fixed one of those problems myself despite their 'help'. The phone still didn't...
on Feb 21
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Planned outage: Saturday, February 15
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I will be bringing down my blog server on Saturday to re-organize my server rack to fit in a new rack-mounted UPS. I am not setting a specific time, but hopefully no more than two or three hours sometime in the afternoon. I'll update this post when the outage is complete.
on Feb 14
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The little server in my basement that runs all my blogs has been down since February 8th. I finally got it back up and running today and, after correcting a few hiccups, the blogs are back up as of February 12th at 10:15 PM Pacific. What went wrong? And why did it take so long [...]
on Feb 13
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The news the last couple of days has reported somewhat confusingly on new Chinese AI company called 'DeepSeek'. I found a fairly clear report on the BBC about what is going on. DeepSeek itself isn't the really big news, but rather what its use of low-cost processing technology might mean to the...
on Jan 28
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Is it possible to be truly 'private' while still having some sort of online presence? How much sharing is too much? What can the 'bad guys' find out about a person online? These are all reasonable questions to ask. I respect that some people make a conscious choice to be 'anonymous' online, and...
on Oct 22
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Visitors depart…now getting ready to ride
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We had some visitors for the past several days. Irene’s cousin Anne and Anne’s husband Lester spent a couple of days with us as they travelled east through the province on their way to …
on Sep 8
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I run my blogs on a little web server in my basement. This is great because it means I control exactly how my web server is configured. It is also horrible because I control exactly how my web serv…
on Aug 26
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Youtube and Web comic creators I like
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NOTE: the featured image for this post is AI-generated
on Aug 16