Technology

Ubuntu: GNU/Linux Comes Of Age

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

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…

Death of an Environmentalist

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Dead environmentalist in broken canoeEnvironmentalism 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…

The Santa Train

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

CPR No.136My 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…

A Convenient Movie

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Movie poster for the film, An Inconvenient TruthWhat 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…

Going Bullfrog Powered

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Bullfrog Power logo.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…