Ahh the joys of WinBlows11 – doing everything the Microsoft way (and sharing to the world whether you like it or not!). For a while this year I was devving new apps on Win11, mostly because it was easy to compile small, neat, portable exes with Nuitka, and my primary
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Thoughts from what I have seen on this road I walk.
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Empathy as Worldview
We have just ‘exited’ one of the greatest upheavals of our modern era – The Covid Pandemic. And how has Covid affected our psyche on a personal, national and global level? I wonder about this a lot, perhaps more than is healthy, but as a ‘survivor’ I have an acute
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Knottiness Continues
So it was fun playing with leather, making paracord bracelets. After a couple of wrong turns I finally have a clasp I can live with. But there hanging in my closet was a rather woebegone leather belt, I think I picked it up on one of those ubituitous ‘FREE’ piles
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In The Moment
My dog, Miss Frieda, likes to sleep in the hallway outside my office door, her nose just in the doorway to remind me she is there. It seems such a simple thing, amidst my break-fixing a complex computer system or researching a wonky linux service. And yet it is quite
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Feeling Knotty
So as the season begins to move indoors I had a hankering for more knotwork. I thought my usual paracord bracelets might be a little narrow for men so I have been playing with widening the bands. The green and black paracord bracelet above is an example of a wider
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Colourful Black and White
I woke up at 6:15 am this morning and within 10 minutes I had logged into my computers, checked 3 email accounts, scanned the Blue Jays game writeup on Sportsnet and was halfway through the headlines at CBC.ca. And it got me thinking… In today’s world everything is pushed at