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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 …