WAFO-1 Market Square courtyard
I came downtown on a rainy afternoon to grab a coffee at MOSI on Lower Johnson, then park somewhere out of doors and undercover to avoid the raindrops. This bench is down on the courtyard level of Market Square. I grabbed WiFI from #TELUS, although...
Working Away From Office (WAFO) blog series
A series of posts to feature places and spaces that I have been working in during these most-challenging times. Since the post on my mobile IT worker kit in Summer 2020, I have continued to find creative places and spaces in which to work. I’ll...
Mobile IT worker kit
Working from home over long periods of time isn’t really my jam. As a subscriber to agile methodologies, I figured I would embark on an experiment to see if I could find ways to work out of doors in these challenging times! Working away from...
thinking about the night
Really enjoying the Radio Paradise App, I have it installed on all my devices. I noticed on the slideshow from featured images from freestock.ca. Check it out…
that pile of tech-support at home
Here we are having a nice day-off from the IT office, and spending business hours tackling that massive backlog of home-based tech-support requests…. I’ve got a few reminders set on some issues, so the first one is : videos taken with Android phone no longer...
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...
ubuntu cisco vpn linux client
Might as well throw a few more keywords onto the pile for completing a few more searches. Had to re-install the VPN client today on the Linux box, and it almost works first time. There is quite a good tip here on setting up the...
2 step OAuth app registration process
Decided to upgrade to Echofon Pro Twitter app for iPhone. Why not, only $4.99 and is one of the most-used apps on my device. To authorize the app to access your Twitter timeline, you: authenticate to Twitter with your account retrieve a one-time PIN code...
self-serve online registration processes
I’ve got an interest in self-serve, web-based registration processes. It just comes with the IDAM territory. I’m just signing up for another web-based service right now. Self-serve, web-based, and had to submit an email address, self-selected username, and password. I tried a phrase with spaces,...
search engine privacy at duckduckgo
The privacy policy at search engine site duckduckgo is fairly painless to read. Ok, there is some geeky stuff in there, like HTTPS, and POST – but I’m going to use that search engine for a while.