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October 24, 2026

Author: Mark

Geekstuff

Writer’s Pack

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?

(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

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

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

Poetry

When It Rains

When it rainsI can smell the grasstall against the salt spray,that clings loving to the logs,tossed on the beachby the southeaster tideflecked white and brown with foambeneath the leaden sky. The desert is an endless beigedrifting like a madwoman between the palmsand the dunes that yesterday were valleys,a grit that

Poetry

I Remember (revised)

I remember,lying flat in tall grasslooking skyward towards infinity,watching the heavenssail past like cotton wool,in an azure sky. I remember,a fly buzzing as she walkedacross my glasses left to right,a black blur, vibrating wingsand cheeky smile,against an azure sky. I remember,my mind stopped turning,10 thousands thoughts per minute,strategies, thoughts and