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We made it through Hurricane Fiona

We made it through Hurricane Fiona, the largest storm ever in Canada, with minimal damage and the power was only out for ~40h. I have a lot of thoughts, but no time to put them down, so that will have to wait for a bit.

In the meantime, this little …

Self-Hosting this site at home

While I was trying to figure out the commenting for this site I was using the FTP a lot. I have a daily batchfile that runs to update this site and created a local mirror, but the CLI FTP portion kept breaking.

Because of those two things I decided to …

Lots of berries in the woods

It was too warm this summer, and I don't know if its a sign of age in me, or that something else. Probably has a little to do with the raging pandemic that is killing people that we have decided to ignore. Stiff upper lip and all that.

Anyway, the …

Comments are working

A blog isn't a blog without comments. I tried to get around those semantics by calling this a homepage, but just because you say something doesn't make it true, even in 2022.

I knew this for a while and have tried different ways to take the discussion off the site …