If you have a Mac or an iPhone, and some basic familiarity with “Shortcuts,” you can download the shortcut here. In operation ...

Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful trump card. If I was bored, or distracted, or annoyed; if I needed time to ...

There’s almost always been a way to search this blog; for the longest time it was backed by Apache Solr, and then, when I migrated to Drupal 10, I switched to using a simple database-backed search, ...

Strathroy, meanwhile, after languishing in this liminal space until now, has suddenly emerged onto the scene. First, Strathroy is the home of Crystal Clear Bags Canada . A month ago, we were looking, ...

Johannes Kleske wrote an ode to Readwise, and, knowing Johannes to be both wise and organized, I dove in. Without bogarting his description of the app and its place in the digital ecosystem, Readwise ...

The core of the classes was working on a two-person scene. Lisa and I, for convenience of cohabitation rehearsal schedule, paired ourselves and we picked this scene from the 2019 Scarlet ...

Later in the day I read this, from Matthew McConaughey, in his weekly newsletter: ...

I’ve kept an AOL account for many years, mostly so I can test AOL’s spam filtering on clients’ email lists, and so I can test AOL’s gradually less wonky rendering of HTML email. It’s been costing me ...

If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your ...

Lisa and I shared an excellent lunch, and we picked up everything from chocolates to meatballs to fresh baked bread. By far and away the tastiest thing we purchased was a loaf of Carrot, Raisin, & ...

My Auntie Fran was the first person I ever knew who did yoga. She was dogged by back pain and hoped it might help. My scientist father thought yoga was loopy and a “woo-woo” distraction. When Auntie ...

IKEA offers a service whereby you can have online order shipped to a central warehouse on PEI, the advantage being that it’s cheaper than having things shipped directly to your door. We were in ...