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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 …

Sights from the weekend #1

There was a lot of walking around this weekend.

We started the weekend at the market to pick up a few staples for the week. We always order ahead and we ate in and out in no time at all.

I want an electric one of these

Wandering around the park I came across this buggy, make …

Urban wandering

Another favourite wandering location, except for the surprisingly huge number of shitty dog owners that can't control their animals, Point Pleasant is awesome.