Reboot was my gateway to cultivating a love of Europe, an easy facility with Europe, and a network of European friends.

The magazine section at our local Indigo has been condensed over recent months: a substantial section magazine racks have ...

I followed up by asking ChatGPT to give me a robots.txt file that includes all of the bots, and I’ve added that to this site’s robots.txt (leaving out some friendly user-agents like NetNewsWire).

The task of capturing this spirit in a logo fell to Toronto Life’s art director, Colleen Nicholson, and Commercial Type’s ...

The migration has been mostly lovely: the Hetzner Cloud website is both delightfully simple and delightfully capable. Migration will continue for the next week or so; until then I’ll be straddling two ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

You may recall that I’m partial to expedition tales. I’ve just finished reading Offbeat in Asia: A Journey Along the Russian Frontier, by Michael Alexander, and I’m part way into First Overland by Tim ...

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 ...

From the official rules for the Tim Hortons Roll Up the Rim to Win Contest (PDF): ...

Three days before Christmas last year, I was sitting on the couch watching television after supper. Over the course of about an hour I developed what I took, at the time, to be the worst case of ...

I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...