I’ve been off the radar for a few days and for that I apologize. We went on a very nice camping trip to Chance Cove Provincial Park over the May 24th long weekend, about which I’ll write more soon. The real reason for my absence has been a massive computer hard drive failure. Under normal…
Category: computers
High and dry
I got up this morning with a full slate of work to do, all time-sensitive. Sat down to check my email and respond to a few messages and…. no Internet. Checked all cables, rebooted the modem, router and computer after unplugging the first two for a few minutes to reset. Nothing. Nada. The stupid little…
Trying something
Recently I’ve had to spend much more time at the computer than I’m accustomed to and I’ve noticed that my recreational usage of the computer for things like Facebook has started to blend more seamlessly with my legitimate tasks than I would like. I also noticed that my posture at the computer was starting to…
Pruning
As a part of my spring cleaning this year, I’ve been editing the contents of my hard drives, the heaps of stuff in my studio, the mounds of excess children’s clothing, the almost embarrassing boxes of wine bottles, the t-shirts with more holes than cloth and my Flickr contacts. Over the past few months, I’ve…
Networking
Found this neat little site that plots a graph to depict the interconnected nature of your website or blog. Watching it unfold is particularly nifty. There’s also a Flickr tag for posting and viewing the results. The graph for this blog is the image below. Makes you realise how quickly use of your site can…