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…
It is DIFFICULT to get a man to understand something when his SALARY depends on his NOT UNDERSTANDING IT.
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…