For the first time in a very long time I decided to take my morning coffee to the backyard, and since the 200-800mm was still on my camera I took that out too. There were a couple of small birds flitting around, I have a lot of yellow smudges for …
We took a drive over to Eastern Passage this afternoon to have a snack, throw some rocks in the ocean and check out some sea birds. Something that's interesting 1 is that there is a golf course on the other side of the road, and you can hear when someone …
August is here again, and so are the monarch butterflies. We have had milkweed in the back garden for a few years now and we always seem to get one or two monarchs come back. It is also the time of the year that the rest of the back garden …
We went for a wander after soccer yesterday and the little one picked the Frog Pond. We grabbed a treat at the Tartan Coffee Company truck at the parking lot and headed for the trail.
When I finished my last exam in December 2024 with my Electrical, Computer Engineering Degree I started work at AMEC in January 2005 in the building that used to be right here. It was short lived, the office moved less than a year later to the Bayer's Rd Mall, and later to Burnside where they are today.
Two weeks ago a buddy took me and the kids for a short boat ride to Sambro Island. They did all the planning, getting the boat in the water, etc. I took the kids.
I'm testing a custom RSS to post thing.
It's Canada Day, and while like any large multi-cultural society, we have our issues, but we also have our strengths and those deserve celebrating.
My raspberrypi was running "hot" in the case so I bought a fan. What I just realized this moment is that it was probably fine, but I want to watch it myself. To do that I need to install mmm-systemtemperature , but there is an extra step that I want to …
I started my self-hosting journey in 2001 when I bought my first desktop. Before then I used the family computers (a 286 and 486 that we found in a dumpster). I went to university without my own computer and used the school computers for anything that needed it. It wasn't …
Sometimes it takes some experimentation to get the cookies just right. Back in the spring of 2020 I came across a old recipe bookie that my Primary teacher put together for everyone. We brought in our favourite recipes in from home and she wrote them all out and made a …
Winter finally seems to be on the wane, and this is the time that the USA decides to start yet another war in West Asia.
A short winter wander along the water at Point Pleasant Park
Hope for Wildlife is a wildlife rehabilitation and education organization located in Seaforth, Nova Scotia. They have a few pens and trails so we met up with some cousins to wander around this afternoon.
We are into baking season, and this weekend I tried a couple new recipes and a couple of old favourites.
The everyday bread recipe.
Cinnamon Loaf from the Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens book.
I really want to run Windows 11 on my laptop, and the last couple of times that I have tried it I got stuck on the bridge connection. This is the way that I have finally gotten it working. What I need I need to install windows 11 on my …
Today was the day that the leaves all fell off the trees.
Today was the day that the leaves all fell off the trees.
The weather was nice so we picked a close trail that we haven't been to before, and chose The Old Coach Road in Bedford.
If you aren't already a Blue Jay's booster, now is the time.
The blue jays are playing amazing, 2 home runs to start and a triple to add on in the 4th. I don't know what the Dogers mascot is, or if it is something that a blue jay will eat, but from what I can tell, blue jays will eat pretty …
We took the kids to an annual halloween party at Needham park this weekend. It was cut short because those dark scary cloulds brought with them great big rain drops and some hail. They looked really cool from the hill. When the little drop started we corraled the kids to …
It is Nocturne weekend here in Halifax. We went out for our annual stroll to see the installations. Something that I found this year was that the density seems down. There are still lots of things to see, but the walking seemed more than other years. I haven't been out …
I have a job with a company laptop. They use Google Drive for their project folders, and this is not something that I will ever change with them. The also use Salesforce for almost all the things, and that is worse than any business "solution" that I have every tried …
Something that I have a hard time with, every time that I start up a new distro, is getting my xbox controller working without a cable. It is never easy, and at no point does it seem like something any of the distros I frequent will fix "out of the …
I have been having issues with one of my BTRFS pools on Unraid, it keeps locking up and then becoming unmountable. I think I may know the root cause, but not sure yet. The last time that this happened I had to use --repair , but it doesn't quite work through …
We did something that I used to do a lot, but haven't for 6 months or so. Put the kids in the car, go for a drive and find a playground, beach or trail to hang out and have a snack. This trip brought us to a HRM park called …
It's Friday and I should be getting the couple of things that are on my plate, off of it. But its been a long week of fires and things and I just don't want to. Instead, here is a picture of a sunfower that I took yesterday evening while grilling …
I always try to keep my camera close, even when I'm home. If not, I would not of seen a dragon fly in the back yard. I'm still not great at macro photography, and I forgot to turn on focus stacking, so these are the only two pictures that I …
There was a moment in recent history that I was opitimistic that business and start-ups were going to focus more on why and what they were doing, rather than chasing the next bubble. That was when you couldn't get away from Simon Sinek and his talking about finding your why …
You heard it here first folks, I'm predicting that Ernesto will impact Nova Scotia in 7-10 days. Immich reminded me of hurricane Ernesto, which missed us last year. My spidey senses start to trigger if I see a hurricane that is tracking west of Bermuda, there is a much higher …
To cap off the long weekend we went for a drive. There were many things that we had to get finished around the house, so there was no planning made for the weekend. Once we finished up the important things, I packed the kids into the car and asked them …
I went with CO on a short adventure this morning to visit the puffins on Pearl Island. They are typically around until early-mid August so its getting a little late. This was the first time with a much smaller and quieter boat, so we were able to get much closer …
The weather is getting better, and everything is at another turning point. Canada has a new government, maybe its going to be stable. The CPC party has gone full cult, with their unelected leader living in government housing and refusing to leave. I switched up my work set up a …
Last week was exhausting. First there was the Canadian Election where the Liberal's won the most seats and get the first opportunity to form another government with Mark Carney as PM. While I was hoping for a majority of seats for the Liberals in this round, I'm relieved at the …
One of the best gardening things is to have crocus bulbs in your lawn. They come up when the snow is thinning, and in years like this, they are out while we have a couple late snow storms. They are great, and just the colour that we need after what …
Something that I find a little annoying is having to manually post things to different social media. I like to post JUST to my site here and then syndicate to socials, mostly just mastodon, but I would like to figure it out for other corporate socials too. There is a …
The sunflowers and bees are just around the corner
First off, may I say this is dumb. This has been an issue for at least 4 years in the Linux community and still, to this day, the solution is to fix it manually. To start, my install uses NetworkManager which has a rudimentary GUI, and since this has been …
This is the content of my super blog post.
I have started working on a little personal project I like to call, computing like its 1999. Part of this is moving a lot of the things that I do from a browser to a local app, and when possible to a TUI/CLI interface to further reduce distraction and …
I read a post on mastodon sometime in the last couple weeks, I can't find it again but it was from someone that re-installed Linux on their main machine for the first time in 10 or more years. They said it felt like, and I'm paraphrasing, "Its nice to feel …
I finally ran out of daily planned pages in my notebook from the last print that I did. I made the template using AutoCAD because it was the tool that I had on my computer that I knew how to use at the time. This time however, I decided to …
I had a request to create a human-readable list of the OPML files that I posted earlier this week.
There are a lot of great memes that come across the internet, this is my collection. I have watermarked them mostly because I don't know how to add an exception to the Pelican-Photos plugin. When able I have included the source link where I downloaded it from.
Its January 2025 and the internet as we knew it in 2020 is again being upended. Elmo and Muskrat are both kneeling down and working to ensure that we, as society, are not able to communicate and connect. Luckily for us, this is a problem that was solved at the …
My slightly modified version of Old Fashioned Chocolate based on the recipe from Taste of Recipe.
These are my no-dairy rolled sugar cookie recipe. It is modified from an old Good Housekeeping Cookbook we keep on the shelf.