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Jeff MacKinnon
I, Jeff MacKinnon, have many interests and wear many hats. I'm a generalist at a lot of things and an expert at a few. I focus a lot of my time on power systems, reducing carbon emissions, electrifying everything, cooking, taking pictures and keeping the internet open and free.
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I'm a little surprised that I haven't already posted this recipe in my recipe format, so this post is to remedy this. Its a recipe from the Longbourn Farm blog that we make most weeks. Although I do use less flour because 8 C makes...
This recipe is unmodified from my revision of the Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens book. I never really know if I should call it a recipe or cookbook, because it is that, but it is more too. I highly recommend grabbing a copy for your...
I really want to run Windows 11 on my laptop, and the last couple of times that I have tried it I got stuck on the bridge connection. This is the way that I have finally gotten it working. What I need I need to install windows 11 on my...
This weekend I knew we needed bread, but I couldn't get myself to the store. I just didn't want to, so I made it homemade instead. We had milk, and while I enjoy and the kids love the everyday bread I wanted something that was a little...
Today was the day that the leaves all fell off the trees.
The weather was nice so we picked a close trail that we haven't been to before, and chose The Old Coach Road in Bedford.
If you aren't already a Blue Jay's booster, now is the time.
The blue jays are playing amazing, 2 home runs to start and a triple to add on in the 4th. I don't know what the Dogers mascot is, or if it is something that a blue jay will eat, but from what I can tell, blue jays will eat pretty …
We took the kids to an annual halloween party at Needham park this weekend. It was cut short because those dark scary cloulds brought with them great big rain drops and some hail. They looked really cool from the hill. When the little...
It is Nocturne weekend here in Halifax. We went out for our annual stroll to see the installations. Something that I found this year was that the density seems down. There are still lots of things to see, but the walking seemed more than...
I have a job with a company laptop. They use Google Drive for their project folders, and this is not something that I will ever change with them. The also use Salesforce for almost all the things, and that is worse than any business...
Something that I have a hard time with, every time that I start up a new distro, is getting my xbox controller working without a cable. It is never easy, and at no point does it seem like something any of the distros I frequent will fix...
I have been having issues with one of my BTRFS pools on Unraid, it keeps locking up and then becoming unmountable. I think I may know the root cause, but not sure yet. The last time that this happened I had to use --repair, but it...
We did something that I used to do a lot, but haven't for 6 months or so. Put the kids in the car, go for a drive and find a playground, beach or trail to hang out and have a snack. This trip brought us to a HRM park called …
It's Friday and I should be getting the couple of things that are on my plate, off of it. But its been a long week of fires and things and I just don't want to. Instead, here is a picture of a sunfower that I took yesterday evening while...