Here’s the result, people-and-blogs.opml, an OPML file that you can import into your feedreader to automagically subscribe to all of the blogs. 1. For the record, here was the prompt to Google Gemini ...
A year ago, Ton launched a project to stop buying ebooks from Amazon; a few weeks ago he provided an update . I thought of Ton’s efforts when, in How to fix a Kit Kat clock from Mike Monteiro, I read ...
But Zoom changed the world. As a low-barrier-to-entry, cross-platform, free (for 40 minutes) videoconferencing app that, ...
Longtime readers may recall that I first encountered Gregory nine years ago, courtesy of an advertorial reference from the ...
More generally, Kelly is right that we are not practiced nor particulary good, as a rule, at being kindees. “Not being a burden” is held as a high virtue. “I don’t want to put you out,” is a frequent ...
if one of us is in darkness less bright our light shall be — if one of us is suffering then none of us are free… The music is interesting in a whole new way, but it also includes longtime ...
WES: Yes! The pilot light is always on. SUSAN: In a foreign country, even just going into a hardware store can be like going to a museum. WES: Buying a light bulb.
There has been an outcropping of the Shetland Islands in my life of late: Lisa’s midway through reading Storm Pegs, and I fell down a NorthLink Ferries rabbit hole, including learning about the ...
@peter.rukavina is an exercise coach, dressed entirely very bright purple spandex. His name is Pete. He is leading an ...
The key to all of this is low friction: to favourite something I just click on the ★ icon in Reeder, my desktop and mobile RSS reader, and everything else happens automatically.
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Peak January

We are experiencing peak demand for electricity here on Prince Edward Island this January, with peak load exceeding 380 MW at the supper hour for each of the last three days. And it’s not even that ...
Through all this, Elizabeth Nicholson—mother, grandmother, great-grandmother—was a regular reader of this blog. One of the things I sometimes find myself doing when writing blogs posts is imagining a ...