This is Gregory Hammond's personal website, where he blogs about many topics. Usually posts once a month.
When you get older and start to buy your own things, you begin to notice prices increase over the years. How much more would you pay for exactly the same thing or sometimes even less? Even if everything went up by ten cents, it all adds up when put together. For those who prefer a quick summary, everyone has their own thoughts on how much an increase should be before they switch to a competitor.…
Let’s say you had to select which higher education (depending on where you live in the world, sometimes known as college, university, or tertiary education) you would attend, as you’re about to complete secondary school (also known as high school or pre-university education). Looking back on your current life, would you choose a different college from the one you graduated from? I may have, as not…
Inspired by Dr. Amy Marschall’s Nobody Asked Me posts , I thought I would do one of my own. Why? Not only do I have a different answer to what the advice columnist gave, but I’m also a male who can relate to not caring about their birthday. This is not meant to be a critique to the columnist’s answer, but to provided a different viewpoint. This one came from Birthday Grinch and was posted on…
One night I was inspired by a video I saw (which of course I can’t find because I don’t remember what was in the video) and I wrote this, I journal. I journal to remember. I journal to remember the past. I journal to remember not only the past day, the past week, the past year, but the past 10. I journal not only so I remember, but so do my kids. I journal to remember the highes and the lowes. I…
With AI grabbing just about every single public thing, people have (rightfully) gotten tired of it and put into place something that will (at least hopefully) stop AI companies from being able to grab their works. From what I have seen, many research on how to stop them, implement one that is easy and quick for them, then forget about it. Which will result in the AI bots that are blocked and new…
This was initially written in May 2025 for the WordCamp Canada 2025 website . This isn’t an exact copy of the version on the WordCamp site, and has been tweaked to fit my personal website. Additional, my current primary social media platform may not be the Fediverse when you are reading this. For the current social media presence that I use please visit my contact page . How often, when you are…
My relationship with music and music streaming is complicated. No, I don’t mean on the real life relationship sort of way, but I guess a sort of transactional relationship. On one hand, I enjoy listening to music and supporting bands. However on the other hand, I wish a number of things were changed not only to better support the lesser-known artists, but also the current trend of music. What I…
Many websites look very similar, it might be because it’s always been like that, the person creating the website isn’t creative, or you don’t want to change something which could cause the visitor to be confused and go to a different site. I want to challenge that and say there are some things that can be changed, and why it’s worth challenging. About Page There are so many articles and talks…
Most of us pay monthly (or yearly) for many things, in May 2020 I wrote an article on this very site about a surplus of subscriptions , what if you could only have one digital subscription? Here’s what I would choose, and what replacements to digital subscriptions you and I could use instead. I do want to note a couple of things first, I consider a digital subscription to be one you pay for…
I was a member of Toastmasters from October 2017, to October 2023. Not just a member who paid their dues, but I also volunteered in a number of leadership roles. I also got to attend a number of other Toastmasters club’s. Here’s why I left, and what I think needs to change. What is Toastmasters? If you know what Toastmasters is, then feel free to skip to the next heading. Toastmasters…