I can relate so much to this feeling that we are in the end who we are, that there seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end ...

Christie George in The Emergency was Curiosity, channelling Jenni Odell in How to Do Nothing: ...

When people think about quitting, it’s hard because they’re comparing the rich web of attachments they have now to some mostly blank slate, or, worse, the possibility of disaster. However, what’s more ...

Here’s a list of some things that suck about recovering from elbow surgery: Constant vigilance about where I am, where my arm ...

“Ok. Get up at 6:00 and have a cup of coffee, but don’t eat anything. Then stand by for a phone call.” Instructions both for ...

The good news is that nothing’s changed in Catherine’s bones: there’s no sign of any additional cancer in any additional bones, and the spots on the femur where cancer is thought to be present haven’t ...

While we’re on the topic of Ethan, my friend Heather Mullen, who is the best “snap a quick interesting photo on their phone” person I know, captured this shot of CBC’s Kerry Campbell about to do an ...

If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your ...

Yesterday, a month later, things depending on this certificate started to break, and I realized it was because the certificate had expired: apparently the default expiration date is a month. So I ...

Remember ALLEX and ELSIR and the Fish Points, two rabbit holes I fell into earlier in the week? Well part of my struggle for coming to understand this world of aeronautical waypoints has been my weak ...

Did you know there’s an open map of memorial benches? There weren’t any added on PEI yet, so I added Catherine’s bench in the Gardens of Hope, and the bench in Victoria Park in memory of Lisa’s ...

Prompted by Aaron Parecki’s efforts, I set out to conjure up a system to set my Slack status when I’m in a Zoom meeting. Like this: The secret sauces turned out to be: Slack status updater, a ...