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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the items on the wall at the Victoria Schoolhouse that catches my eye, every week as we go there for acting class, is a list of all the teachers who taught at the school, over the 101 years ...

From a list of ten Instructions for Myself by James A. Reeves, No. 10 is: Artificial intelligence cannot make cool shit, but it can help me learn how to make cool shit.

John Dale was right: once you start baking with sourdough, it’s hard to stop. This morning we celebrated Lisa for Stepmother’s Day with sourdough cinnamon rolls.

I’m forever looking for ways to make finding library books easier, and recently I found something that I use almost every day, a “shortcut” for iOS and macOS that let’s me easily search the PEI Public ...

Eagle-eyed readers of this blog in its website version may have noticed a new element at the top, a search box: There’s almost always been a way to search this blog; for the longest time it was backed ...

Jon Udell, whose words I’ve been reading for years, back to his days at BYTE, writes about his personal connection to USAID: The great adventure of my birth family was the fifteen months we lived in ...