Month: April 2011

I’m rapidly approaching the “normal” retirement age. The thing is, I’ve already been retired for 6 years. Recently I read a newspaper article about how the concept of early (or for that matter normal)...

On June 2, 1969 I left behind my university days and embarked on a professional career as an Associate Chemist with General Foods Ltd. Research in Cobourg Ontario. I can remember getting my first...

When I first got involved with Linux – discovered Distrowatch and the joys of downloading and burning CDs – I thought the whole Linux scene was about the software. Man, all those different desktops,...

It’s been close to 5 years now since I first started experimenting with the Linux operating system. During that time  I’ve learned quite a lot – about Linux itself, and about me as a...