An Offer I Might Refuse
Recently I got an email about new Internet packages offered by my ISP who shall remain anonymous (Rogers.) Then just yesterday I got the same offer in a mailout. As […]
Gain (and Loss)
The online and digital revolution in music has obtained a lot of benefits – it’s hard to imagine how cool it is to carry thousands of songs round on a […]
Syndication
Back in the antediluvian period before the Web, if you saw the term syndication it usually meant one of two things: A bunch of folks got together to invest in […]
March Break
This upcoming week used to be one we looked forward to like no other. From 1987 until 2004 we used a week of my vacation to “get away” at March […]
Rethinking Twitter
I never have been a big fan of Twitter. It always seemed to me to be a rather vacuous stream of consciousness application – not enough text to really say […]
Tempus Fugit
At least that is what is says on the brass dial of our Grandfather Clock, and I am sure It’s true. Next year this old timer will be part of […]
Life at Sea
Ever since I was a small boy I dreamed of going to sea – probably influenced a lot by my uncle Rocky’s stories of his adventures in the Royal Canadian […]
Microcosm of Society
There are a couple of locally produced DVDs about Almonte’s history in our video library. The first one – called “Almonte’s Interwoven Past” – deals with the first 100 years […]
The Technology Bin
I’ve been restoring and updating old PCs with Linux for nearly as long as I’ve been in Almonte. That is one of the great features of the Linux operating system […]