Hobbies

I have been a 35mm photographer for more than 50 years now – started with a balky old Yashica rangefinder and worked my way up to Nikon. I got my last really good film...

This pandemic year of 2021 has been notable for many things but two immediately come to mind: Higher prices – on just about everything. Shortages – well maybe not toilet paper so much, but...

My nine-year-old Acer Veriton desktop has sadly reached its end of life as far as Microsoft Windows is concerned. Intel is no longer supporting Windows 10 with its second-generation Sandy Bridge CPU. No amount...

I have been using some form of Microsoft Windows at home for thirty years. I have been using it to surf the Internet for at least 25 years. During a good deal of that...

It’s been a long time since I just had one computer hooked up to the Internet. I suppose it was probably in 2002 – just before Sarah brought her stuff home after graduating with...

Since 1982 I have had some sort of “local computing” capability. Mind you the earliest stuff was pretty primitive. Limited software, limited storage, slow processing. But it worked. I couldn’t really get into “cloud...

The above photo was taken in July 2003 – during the SARS pandemic. There were a few fans present at Skydome / Rogers Centre that day. Won’t be happening this year though. It’s not...

I have done a lot of refurbishing and upgrading of personal computers over the years, but the parameters have changed lately. When I first started out, my typical upgrade candidate was an older desktop...