Category: technology & toys

I am a nerd by nature and a geek by trade, and I have a few things to say about all kinds of technology from enterprise platforms to playful games.

  • keyboard life, three

    keyboard life, three

    Barely a few hours later and you are getting a second keyboard post today. It seems as though my life is revolving around input devices on this quiet winter Thursday.  Sigh. Why is that? Two reasons, one a tangent I didn’t include in the last post but which I thought was worth writing about and

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  • keyboard life, two

    keyboard life, two

    Along with the hundreds of thousands of aging finger prints atop the keys, I’ve let a bit of dust accumulate on my keyboard lately.  It was not for lack of writing. Mostly. See. Late last year I found myself in need of a new computer. It was a mostly obvious choice. I’ve largely ditched Windows

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  • bardo the air privateer, part two

    bardo the air privateer, part two

    Winter flying is a mixed bag.  Heck, in the last few weeks since I first posted about my new wandering adventures through the virtual airspaces I have officially traversed the rocky mountains and defeated all sorts of variable weather. The worst of it was landing blind in a snowstorm in the Kootenays, but even my

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  • bardo the air privateer, part one

    bardo the air privateer, part one

    Well, darn. The new-ish Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was ported and released on the PS5 …in late 2025 …which is almost 2026, so you figure that one out? But anyhow. I, like a fool, bought it and now I’m trying to rekindle my virtual flying madskillz to set off on another adventure in and around

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  • little green squares

    little green squares

    Describe your 2025 in tech or tools … to which I am going to answer with a picture of my Github contribution graph: If you know you know, but if you don’t know what this is, let me explain. Github is a code repository. It is like a cloud drive for computer code that keeps

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