Thoughts on working my first picket line
For those out of town or who otherwise wouldn’t be in the know or affected by it, employees at the LCBO — the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the o...
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Three strikes against privatizing the LCBO
I’ve worked for the LCBO for just over two years. This upcoming strike deadline is the first I’ve ever looked at being personally involved in, as LC...
It’s (now) a dog’s life
I’ve been remiss in updating my website the last several weeks. It’s largely because this happened on April 20th… After years of discussing ge...
Need even more reason to leave all Meta platforms for good? Here you go.
Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its users to adverti...
First draft of new novel: Done. ish.
I struggled with making myself work on this book idea more than any other idea in recent memory. I had the core idea for a while, and started filling it out as ...
… aaaaand we’re back!
It’s been… let’s call it an interesting few weeks. Back in mid-February, we were visiting friends in Florida. The day after we arrived, I woke...
#lifestylechangefail
I recently mentioned I was going to try to get into some intermittent fasting. Yeah… well… no. Or at least, what I have managed to do hasn’t g...
I had a security breach. Learn from it.
A couple of weeks back, at least one of my passwords was hacked. Luckily, I was saved by 2FA. What does that mean? Ok, let me back up. For some time now, I̵...
Google notches up the war on adblockers
Some months back, I noticed more and more people I follow on Mastodon were commenting, or forwarding posts of others, on how they’ve noticed warnings on Y...
The streak is dead. Long live the streak.
Like all things we wish would stay around, those that become solid streaks eventually end. So it is with my run of several years of doing something creative eve...