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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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The weather this weekend was not amazing, the Debby leftovers left the day wet and gusty so we stuck close to home. Nothing interesting, a couple loads of laundry and tidying up to get ready to get back to work tomorrow. As I have been...
There are a few flower beds around the Halifax Commons that have flower beds, not many, but the ones that are there are pretty.
I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend. But luckily we have a lot of pretty flowers, and a couple butter fly visitors to the yard. There are some of the photos that I took, and there may be more soon.
This is the first time that I grabbed a photo of a monarch that I liked.
I always have to re-search how to do this, so this time I think I will just write a quick note for the steps so if I have to do it again from scratch I will know what I have to do. Create a folder for the templates. I put …
This weekend I went out on the water with a friend searching for puffins, seals and other interesting things. It was the longest that I have been on a boat for over a decade or more. The roundtrip time was expected to be about 4h, but...
When I saw this, I knew that I had to re-fresh the wasp trap with some fresh mix.
We went out in a friends boat this past weekend with no real goal. He wanted to go for a ride, and so did my big guy. So we made a plan that morning. The water seemed relatively calm and I wanted to see puffins. I have never seen one …
I think its time to make a change to this site. I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the big front page, with all the pictures, as I was when I built it. So I think I will be making some changes to it to make it "better …
A Swing Song by William Allingham Swing, swing, Sing, sing, Here! my throne and I am a king! Swing, sing, Swing, sing, Farewell, earth, for I'm on the wing! Low, high, Here I fly, Like a bird through sunny sky; Free, free, Over the lea,...
The bluejay has whiskers1 not really, its a bug. ↩︎
I haven't been active on this site for a while, and I'm not promising now that is going to change, but I took a picture of this pretty flower and I thought I would share.
Every year I think that we are going to be better, and every year I'm disappointed. See, there was a major snow storm this weekend, but you wouldn't know it if you drive, only if you walk. The roads are clear, but the sidewalks are a...
Four years on and I still think that no one really gets that our response to the pandemic is a root cause to a lot of the "there aren't enough workers" calls in so many industries, this is especially the case for professions that are...
I'm still, still, working on a workflow that doesn't include lightroom, but does include editing RAW files. For most of last year I have been only editing the JPEG files using the default windows editor and that's it. That works fine,...