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...
Category: social
Reviewing one process of reviewing: Zero stars
Anyone who knows me and has had occasion to be with me in a location with no fixed address, where we split up and get together again later, has heard me sing th...
Road trip to the east coast
My family and I are just recently back from a 2.5-week road trip to the east coast (specifically, Nova Scotia via Quebec and New Brunswick) to visit family and ...
Data privacy starts with your own choices
I was scrolling on Mastodon yesterday — the ad-free, federated social media I went to after finally leaving Twitter and Facebook for good a few years ago ...
Too many people like shooting the messenger
The LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) is the provincially-owned company that, until relatively recently, was the only place in the province you could legal...
Things I don’t get about capitalism
I like money. I like having it and what it can get for me and I certainly wish I had more of it.It’s true that money can’t buy happiness. But I susp...
WTF: What The Fugu?
Occasionally, a question strikes me that I can’t quite shake. Not just the big ones that will often occur to us — Why are we here? How are we here? ...
So you want to join Mastodon…
I joined the social media site Mastodon three years ago this month, having heard about it as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, which I’d been growin...
Back in the Movember movement
Movember was an idea that became an annual fundraising movement. People grow a moustache over the month of November to help raise money for men’s health a...
My ongoing interest in digital privacy
I’ve talked before about digital privacy — among other places, here and here and don’t forget here — but after making some choices then ...