Month: February 2011

I got a letter today from Service Canada that told me that my application for Old Age Security has been accepted. It’ll be a while before the money starts rolling in, but I definitely...

We’re off on another cruise in a week or so. We got started with cruise vacations rather late in life, but now we like them a lot. This will be our 10th one –...

Oh sure I loved Mom and Dad when I was a boy growing up in the Leave It To Beaver era. However my favorite adult for a lot of that time had to be...

I am pretty much a Linux guy when it comes to the PCs around here. Mind you, most of them are older pieces of hardware where Linux runs very well. One machine is fairly...

The Brockville and Ottawa Railway has had several names over its long and interesting history – B&O, Canadian Pacific, Ottawa Valley Railway – but no matter what you call it, it’s being taken off...

I’ve been using a Linux powered Acer Aspire One netbook for a while now – during that time I switched from its native Linpus Lite to Ubuntu Netbook Edition. However I’ve become increasingly dissatisfied...