A trip to Radium
My best friend Chris reached out to me at the end of June with a plan to meet up at a midway point between his home in Edmonton and our…
Am I bored?
Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril wrote a nice piece on boredom and what it means to him. I've had some time to ponder and developed some of my own…
Deploying a Synology NAS
I decided recently that it was time to build a new network attached storage service for our home network. I have an old one, a NetGear ReadyNAS NVX+, but it…
Resolving the MariaDB and Fedora problem
I previously recounted an issue with my blog server wherein the MariaDB failed to start after a Fedora update. I found a work-around for that problem to get the blogs…
Tim Cook’s retirement
September 1st is Tim Cook's official last day as CEO of Apple after 15 years at the helm of that now-dominant company. He took over from Steve Jobs, an iconic…
On the loss of CoCo
We lost another cat that I haven't previously written about in addition to Iris: CoCo. She was with us for nearly as long as Iris, and passed at about the…
Adding word counts to the archive page
I spent a bit of time on Monday adding a PHP code snippet to my Wordpress site that outputs a total monthly word count and average word count per post…
Blaugust 2026 results
The 2026 edition of Blaugust- the festival of blogging is wrapping up. This is my third year participating, and I started with fairly modest goals: Post at least five times…
Iris is gone
We had our beloved cat Iris euthanized after a long illness on May 1 of this year at the age of 19 and one half years. I've been remiss in…
Am I part of the Indieweb?
Juhis tells us that there is no membership card for the Indieweb blogging community. I like his thesis as I sort of feel like I'm at least on the periphery…