Driving from Gander to Gros Morne. A very wet visit to the Tablelands.
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A visit to Newfoundland's Terra Nova National Park.
read moreNewfoundland: Arrival in St. John's
Visiting Newfoundland - flying into St. John's and going to have a beer.
read moreHardware Discovery with Linux
Inspired by a recent discussion on a Linux mailing list I'm on and a need to find out about the hardware in an ancient computer I own, I make a quick pass at the hardware discovery tools available for Linux.
read more'The Avengers: Age of Ultron' - Movie Review
Marvel's "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" is another reasonably successful superhero movie in their long string of successes.
read moreComputer Hardware Repair Toolkit
I work for Repair Café as a computer fixer, and we see a variety of physical damage that's been done to computers (or has just occurred over time). This is a list of tools I take with me to help with the work.
read moreWindows Software for Repair Café
I work for Repair Café as a computer fixer, and need a variety of pieces of software to detect and fix problems with the computers we see. Here are my software suggestions for fixing computers.
read moreFirefox Settings
How to partially secure Firefox.
read moreUsing Python's matplotlib to Plot Web Server Stats
Python's matplotlib library isn't part of the Python standard library and it's somewhat complex, but it's a great library if you need to generate graphs.
read more'The Belgariad,' Parts one and two - Book Review
David Eddings' slightly wordy and derivative but still fun high fantasy series gets started.
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