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In my ill-advised never-ending quest to acquire new hobbies, I’ve adopted a thought technology that I learned from Merlin Mann. Merlin talks about how he needs “important” things to be...

Very early in my career, I worked in Economic Development at the Western Valley Development Authority (now defunct) in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. I got to do a lot of really...

I watched WWDC this year, and as with most years, didn’t really care about most of what I saw. The usual suspects made an appearance: required re-work that you won’t...

Graham and I have started a new project. We are Dos Amigans: two Amiga nerds who are broadcasting our foray into software development on the Amiga platform. We’re having a...

I’ve seen a few “n Things I Learned Working Remotely” posts in recent history, as people migrated to remote work from office-based work and described their experiences. I’ve made the...

Our life in Sweden started as these kinds of moves do for many people: in the arrivals section of an airport. After flying all night, and having a several-hours layover...

At NSScotland 2015, Amy Worrall gave a talk about how to enable your Mac programs to be scriptable with AppleScript. AppleScript itself, and the APIs around AppleScript haven’t changed much...

I first discovered and started using Free Software as a child. I was a Debian developer at one point before I was old enough to drive a car. I learned...

As a result of my family’s move from the east-coast of Canada, to the west-coast, I wound up in public school in Victoria, BC. The Victoria school board was Mac-centric....

When I was a child, my family moved from the east to the west coast of Canada. After the move, I talked to my cousin on the east coast using...

I’ve never really been a fan of the idea of “New Year’s Resolutions.” I don’t like to confine myself to a specific schedule for improving my life: I think that...