Ubuntu: GNU/Linux Comes Of Age
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007When a friend of mine recently told me that he had decided to drop Microsoft Windows in favour of a new operating system called Ubuntu, I began to take a harder look at Linux. Read more…
One of the basic principles of Taoism is P'U, the Uncarved Block. The essence of the Uncarved Block is that things in their original simplicity contain their own natural power, power that is easily spoiled and lost when that simplicity is changed.
When a friend of mine recently told me that he had decided to drop Microsoft Windows in favour of a new operating system called Ubuntu, I began to take a harder look at Linux. Read more…
Environmentalism is the new F
-word. And so, from here on in I am going to try to remove the word entirely from my spoken and written vocabulary.
Having been a part of the modern environmental movement now for over a decade, one thing has become very clear to me. Nobody cares. Wait – let me type that again. Nobody cares. Read more…
My family and I just returned from a special Christmas event where the kids were treated on board a working steam train to a visit from Santa Claus and several of his very busy elves. The South Simcoe Steam Railway puts on a spectacular show and my kids look forward to it every holiday season. Read more…
What changed for me, after seeing An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore, was perhaps a sense of urgency that I’d never felt before. Although I follow quite closely climate change and related issues, I suppose I had never been presented with the seriousness of our predicament in such a compelling and terrifying way. Read more…
When the Ontario Provincial government recently de-regulated the electricity market, I began my search for the very best third-party provider. The challenge was, I wanted to buy my electricity from a provider that supported more sustainable ways of producing that power. Read more…