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More Pretty Autumn Colours

It is way too warm out there for the end of October. It was 19C at 1pm today and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Something that I typically put away for the year during the first weekend of October. I really want to start wearing flannel, but then …

Pretty Autumn Colours

I was swamped early in October so I didn't get out at the height of the colourful leaves. This is my favourite time of the year and I plan to spend a lot more time on the trails in November and December.

Royal Bank Doesn't Respect You

I had to get on the phone today with RBC support to dispute a charge on my card. The vendor decided to not cancel my account like I asked in the winter, they then switched platforms, locked me out of my account, and then told me that its been more …

Strange Looking Birds

I still haven't figured out how to add the image in the meta field to the post "nicely" so I have moved it to the bottom of the theme and will manually put them in the microblog. It may make some of the featured images look funny being at the …

I'm getting old, and now I know it

I think that I have experienced the obvious sign that I'm getting old. My favourite shoes for the last 5yrs are worn through and I can't find them on the companies Canadian page. This is a sign because I EXPECTED TO FIND IT.

In the age of new iphones every …

365Project - Day 53

I had to agree to a new terms and conditions to access my Lightroom library today and that means that this is the first time that I have used darktable to process an image for this site.

Eariler this year I gave darktable a try and decided to continue with …

365Project - Day 51

I did a bit of continued cleanup on the theme for the site, it is starting to get to be something that I like better. I also re-arranged it some so that the header image is in the RSS feed. Pelican doesn't allow for you to create your own RSS …

365Project - Day 48

And good news, comments are back. I took them off to give commento another try, but their docs are offline and I would like to understand PHP a bit better. It has evolved a lot as a programming language since I worked with it.

So I'm using Hashover 2.0 …