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February 15, 2012

It has long been good practice to use email-validation tools such as Sender Protection Framework (SPF) and Domainkeys... read more

January 13, 2012

I recently used a sheet of plywood and half an hour in a wood shop to drastically change my work environment. I built myself a standing desk. As it turns out, this simple change of posture has had surprising and far-reaching effects.

My motivation was physiological: I've been working from... read more

January 03, 2012

This essay appeared in The Locator (the official newsletter of Search and Rescue Manitoba), Jan-Feb 2014

I spent a lot of time alone in the woods this fall. Much of that time I had only the vaguest idea where I was. Being out in the... read more

October 26, 2011

There is tremendous beauty in the prairies, but like many newcomers I had to learn to see most of it. My first impression of the landscape in Manitoba was of unrelenting flatness. Exploring the province through the full cycle of seasons, however, has opened my eyes to its palette of colours and... read more

September 21, 2011

Music fesivals in Manitoba seem to be universally laid back. There are seldom lineups -- even for the bar -- and an amazing variety of people get along well in very close quarters. The Harvest Moon Festival, held for the tenth time this year in... read more

September 12, 2011

I regularly volunteer with the Bike Dump, one of several volunteer-run, non-profit bicycle shops here in Winnipeg.

What makes these places -- and the Bike Dump in particular -- different from most commercial bike shops is their explicit mandate to educate... read more

September 23, 2010

The folks at Make Poverty History wanted to make sure they had good... read more

October 29, 2009

The WYSIWYG module does a great job of centralizing and abstracting... read more

July 27, 2009

We use multi-site installations pretty much exclusively. Moving sites around (from development to production, say) can... read more

June 26, 2009

Apt-dater is a relatively new utility that allows easy package management of multiple Debian servers from a central... read more

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