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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...