As everyone knows, the USA is drastically affecting just about everything with regards to the global economy. Inflation and with it the "normal" response from the Bank of Canada will be to raise interest rates. However, I don't think that is the right thing to do, because the way that raising the base interest rate...

This is the current favourite birthday cake in the house from bromabakery.com, I like to use the 9" pans. The recipe below isn't exactly the same, its what I have been using based on the ingredients that I have around the house. I do make a few changes to the frosting recipe, but I don't really have a recipe for it....

I don't remember exactly what its called, but it happens every year around this time. Agricola street is closed to traffic and filled with people, all wandering around to listen to music, browse vendors and just having a good time. We wander up and down every year and some times I take my camera. The little ones...

For the first time in a very long time I decided to take my morning coffee to the backyard, and since the 200-800mm was still on my camera I took that out too. There were a couple of small birds flitting around, I have a lot of yellow smudges for for picutres, but I was able to get a couple of nice shots. We think...

We took a drive over to Eastern Passage this afternoon to have a snack, throw some rocks in the ocean and check out some sea birds. Something that's interesting 1 is that there is a golf course on the other side of the road, and you can hear when someone makes a shot that they aren't really happy with. It was also...

August is here again, and so are the monarch butterflies. We have had milkweed in the back garden for a few years now and we always seem to get one or two monarchs come back. It is also the time of the year that the rest of the back garden flowers start popping, there will likely be a bunch more pictures of flowers...

We went for a wander after soccer yesterday and the little one picked the Frog Pond. We grabbed a treat at the Tartan Coffee Company truck at the parking lot and headed for the trail. Of course I only brought along my new-ish 50mm on the camera and there were at least 5 little ducklings at the waters edge 1 and a...

When I finished my last exam in December 2024 with my Electrical, Computer Engineering Degree I started work at AMEC in January 2005 in the building that used to be right here. It was short lived, the office moved less than a year later to the Bayer's Rd Mall, and later to Burnside where they are today. 1 At the...

Two weeks ago a buddy took me and the kids for a short boat ride to Sambro Island. They did all the planning, getting the boat in the water, etc. I took the kids. There sits a lighthouse with a small, modern, solar station beside it. It and all the buildings around it are falling down with the memory of how Canada...

I'm working out my own, custom, RSS bot thing that I should be able to auto-post from here and ideally instagram and other corporate social media. :wq

It's Canada Day, and while like any large multi-cultural society, we have our issues, but we also have our strengths and those deserve celebrating. Wear some red, eat some burgers and chips, and celebrate this great place to be. The image above was taken this morning at Halifax Citadel :wq

My raspberrypi was running "hot" in the case so I bought a fan. What I just realized this moment is that it was probably fine, but I want to watch it myself. To do that I need to install mmm-systemtemperature, but there is an extra step that I want to remember for the future since I'm using the MagicMirrorOS Step 1...