It’s been a busy week on the Almonte IT support front This week so far I have: Advised a lady in Tim Horton’s how to update her copy of CCleaner Free – a program...
Life Experience
Month: January 2016
Economics
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Hobbies
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Life Experience
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Technology
We all know netbooks are dead, right ? These cheap low powered laptops had a short time in the sun between 2008 and 2012. They were eventually killed by consumer apathy, Microsoft trying to...
Hobbies
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Life Experience
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Technology
I’ve been playing around with microcomputers for close to 35 years now. One of the biggest changes I’ve seen in that time is in the video display. When I started with a VIC-20 back in...
Life Experience
His much-anticipated birth was a highlight of a year marked otherwise by a lot of sorrow and family tragedy. He was born on a historic day when an African American man assumed the Presidency...
Life Experience
A few months ago I wrote a post on the two most popular Train Simulators out there – Train Simulator 2016 and Trainz: A New Era. At the time I wrote that I would revisit the...
Life Experience
It’s been a roller coaster winter here so far, but it sure feels like a normal one for Almonte today. We had a mild December and the first green Christmas in a long while,...
Family
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Hobbies
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Life Experience
Richard MacDonald – my paternal grandfather – died before I was born. I met only two of his siblings as a child – my uncle Eddy the retired locomotive engineer, and my Aunt...