Month: June 2025

Writer’s Pack

24 June 202516 September 2025 Mark

I realized that of the mini-apps I have created the ones I use most with writing projects are PyWrite (naturally!) and PUrl for collecting reference URLs, as well as a small utility that I wrote a while back to convert the Manuscript folder into a single EPUB I could edit

Life

Half Full or Half Empty?

21 June 202521 June 2025 Mark

(Originally an editorial in Teeswater.ca circa 2014) Are you a half full or half empty glass kind of person? I have always thought of myself in the former group, but last week I came close to joining the other side. Once a year JG, my wife and I take part

Geekstuff

PUrl

8 June 202516 September 2025 Mark

A few years ago I was in need of a way to collect and organize the scabillion bookmarks I collect in my wanderings on the web. Being as I had a perfectly good Apache running the simple solution was a webapp with javascript on the front end and php on

Life Recycling

Recycling – Toe To Head

1 June 2025 Mark

If you know me IRL you will usually see me carrying a shoulder bag or fanny pack, back issues making it impossible for me to sit with a wallet in my hip pocket. A couple weeks back Sam and I made the journey (believe me OCTranspo on the weekend can