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This is an amazing cookie recipe

Last year I came across this cookie recipe and it was amazing. One of the best things about it is that you can just make the balls and then freeze them so when you are ready to have delishious cookies, you just have to thaw and bake.

Another walk in the woods

We took a wander out to the Pockwock Falls outside Upper Hammonds Plains, NS. It is a simple walk out an old service road and then less 100m off the road north, just before the bridge.

I'm Sticking with Wordpress, for now

I've been working on giving Publii a real shot for this site. I used the tool to get all these posts in a project, but it keeps crashing. I tried doing it manually (there aren't that many pages on here) but that started to crash the app too.

There are …

I'm thinking about switching from Wordpress

I have been using Wordpress for a very long time, probably since Mingus in 2004. It wasn't my main CMS at that time, I think I was still using Drupal or PHP-Nuke for my main sites, but wordpress seemed pretty neat.

From 2010-2012 I dropped out of the internet space …

Spokane 5 yrs ago - working on the road

Up until March of last year I did a lot of travelling for work. Before our oldest was born that travelling included a lot of time back in Spokane, WA and all over the PNW or the inland empire as some call it.

After they were born I stuck closer …

Don't give up immediately

At first I wasn't sure it was going to work

It turns out that I CAN install windows 11 on my main machine, not that I will for the next little while. Need to wait to make sure that all the vendors are going to support it.

When I first tried to install however, the PC Health Check app (Only …

First Trip to the beach 2021

We took a quick trip to Lawrencetown beach this weekend. I picked this one for the lack of sand and lots of surf. The lack of sand meant the kids didn't get full of it.

I enjoy listening to the waves and especially the sound the rocks make when the …