2023-03-17: Trying Arc Again I’ve been trying the Arc browser from the aptly-named The Browser Company lately. I gave it a …
2023-03-12: Hilton Head Island We’re in Hilton Head Island for a week (as usual). We drove down over two days from Toronto …
2023-02-28: Trainspotting One of these days I’m going to get back out to do some rail photography. It’s always …
2023-02-20: Day Trips to Run We were chatting after our long Sunday run recently and the subject of travel to run or race came …
2023-02-09: Switching Instances I started out on mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social) back in 2018 and sometime after that, …
2023-02-01: How AI Isn't Going to Change Blogging for the Better In recent years, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have promised to revolutionize …
2023-01-23: Moved back to micro.blog after some time on WordPress again. It’s just too complex and …
2023-01-20: Thanks Elon! I’m not really surprised. In fact, I’m surprised it took this long. Back when Elon …
2023-01-14: Algos, Photos and Social It looks like Twitter (aka Elon) killed off most third-party apps the other day. That’s not a …
2023-01-05: Day Five in Canmore/Banff It was -24ºC when I woke up, -19ºC when I went for a run, and then -2ºC out in Kananaskis where we …
2023-01-04: Day Four in Canmore/Banff More sunny skies and cold temperatures. But it gets milder later in the day and there’s no …
2023-01-04: Day Three in Canmore/Banff Started out with a run (as usual). Today was colder than yesterday but still decent since the sun …
2023-01-03: Day Two in Canmore/Banff I’m actually finding it hard to believe we only got here a few days ago. I got up a bit later …
2023-01-01: Day One in Canmore/Banff It’s the first day of our mountain getaway to start 2023. We had a great and uneventful flight …
2022-12-23: An Epic Cross-Canada Journey It was all supposed to be pretty easy. Our kid Lindsey (they/them), a first-year engineering student …
2022-12-20: Packing Patience Travel is stressful at the best of times, but when things like bad weather get thrown into the mix, …
2022-12-11: Vivaldi Browser I was a devoted Firefox user for many years but recently, the list of annoyances with Firefox …
2022-12-04: Uses for a Synology I got my hands on a Synology DS920+ a couple of years ago. It has two Seagate Ironwolf 4TB drives in …
2022-11-27: Twitter for News and Information Do I miss Twitter? Not really. There are a few things that bring me back occasionally to do a …
2022-11-26: Wading into HomeKit I’ve had a few “smart” devices around the house, but generally they all used …
2022-11-25: Some Mastodon Tips I’ve been full-time on Mastodon for a week or three now and don’t really use Twitter …
2022-11-19: Does Mastodon Need Twitter to Die to Succeed? Is Twitter dying? I don’t think it matters anymore. Mastodon is growing and people are discovering …