making panettone at home
Seasonally speaking, this is the time of year for enjoying panettone. You might be able to find a few panettone left at your local bakery, or grocery outlet – indeed I saw a few left at the store yesterday. They hadn’t been picked up before…
seasonal blogging
Yes, I see that I was blogging in the summer, while on the road. And now here we are in Winter. Could be that I’ve become a seasonal blogger ? Yah, that’s it! Let’s break all those rules about blogging regularly, and blog at only…
California road-trip 2013: Day 7, sun, sand, and some surf viewing
We like to get the kids out first thing in the AM, before it gets too hot. Charlotte has a friend she met down at Dinosaur Caves park this week, so we went down there to play around 9 AM. A quick trip down to…
California road-trip 2013: Day 6, local playgrounds again
We tour several playgrounds when we are here. After the morning jaunt at the Dinosaur Caves, we came home for a spontaneous outbreak of “family band”. That’s right – grab an instrument and jam! We…
California road-trip 2013: Day 5, part-time residents again
We’re off to do the things we usually do as part-time residents of Shell Beach. Hit the local coffee shop, and go to Dinosaur Caves Park to play in the morning. After coming home for a break, we hit New Frontiers Market to get our…
California road-trip 2013: Day 4, are we there yet ?
Took the road west out of Tracy, CA this morning, and drove through this neat windmill farm on the way to the Bay Area. We took route 505 west, and then went down south past Gilroy, heading for Salinas, and the 101 route south. We’d…
California road-trip 2013: Day 3, travel in theory, and in practice
Left Yreka, CA in full sun this morning, with kids very eager to reach destination. We had lots of discussion today about how far the trip was in miles, and how long that would take. Are we there yet ? Many teachable moments along the…
California road-trip 2013 : Day 2, many Oregon miles
Was kind of nice to be pulling out of East Vancouver this morning, taking a different route south over the Columbia River than in the past. We were on the 205 southbound, so headed through a different stretch of freeway than usual. Soon it was…
California road-trip 2013 : Day 1, south, north, south
Just spent a week in Austin, Texas on a business trip, that I might also describe as a teaching and learning trip. I was down at SailPoint, learning all about their enterprise identity management product called IdentityIQ. That whole trip deserves a blog of it’s…
Hangin at the beach
Long weekend, sunshine, and sand. Here we are at the beach, making like it is summertime. Ok, so more like spring-time in BC, and it is a hot day. And, while I was down at the beach, I posted this entry using the WP app…
WordCamp 2013 notes
I attended WordCamp 2013 (Victoria, BC) this past weekend, my first time at the event. As a WordPress enthusiast, I was looking forward to meeting some like-minded folks, to network, and learn some techie stuff about WordPress. I really enjoyed the Experts Panel which was…
getting wpa2 wifi going on Acer Netbook with Linux
I’d like to issue thanks to everyone in the world who has posted anything online that relates to getting an Acer Aspire One Netbook, running any Linux distro, connected to an enterprise WPA2 wireless segment. Turns out your mileage may vary, depending on if you…