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Reviewing The Non-Goals For 2012
today’s sunset How did I fare on the Non-Goals for last year? January 10: Non-Goals For 2012 These are the things I resolved to continue in 2012: Walking home at least four days per week. Partial...
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Tweak Tweak
David’s birthday flight (May 30, 2012) You might’ve noticed I’ve been messing around with the blog lately — fonts, header image, some text in the pages and such. Small changes, kind of like changing...
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This Blog Is Nearly 11 Years Old and 4,674 Posts Big
I came across this Excel file by accident earlier today, and was surprised to discover I haven’t updated it for nearly a year, since the 10-Year Blogiversary last July. Apparently I’m not as geeky as...
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11-Year Blogiversary
This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Blogiversary I made some pretty big announcements on this blog since the 10-Year Blogiversary, to put things mildly. In fact, as of this time last year only the...
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20 Reasons Why I Write A Blog And Not A Book
my books travel, too… click on the pic for the story If I had a nickel for every time someone told me I should write a book… (A nickel??? I’d be foolish for not asking for a loonie to cover the rate of...
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End-of-Year Randomosity, and Contemplating the Next Frontier
Café Progresso I’m choosing randomosity because it’s pretty cliché at the end of the year to make a list of things. Plus, I make lists and mark events all ‘year round. So here are some VSCO-processed...
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Downtime Is For The Birds
Mister Hugh (RIP) glaring at the internet … not the cats. My websites and email accounts were down for 11.5 hours! Apologies to anyone trying to reach us — we are frustrated with Bluehost’s downtime,...
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Post #5,000!
HSBC Celebration of Light, Vancouver (August 3, 2005) Little did I know, when I wrote Post #4,000 while on holiday (my annual birthday trip), that I would be writing Post #5,000 in the same place,...
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12th Blogiversary
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Blogiversary To imagine in 2002 what this blog would look like in 2014 would be like looking into a crystal ball of the internet, something investors and...
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Blogging In 2015
shooting in Iceland with my first DSLR (Pentax K100D) One of my objectives for this blog in 2015 is to (further*) throw chronology out the window in favour of diversity. In other words, expect trips to...
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13th Blogiversary
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Blogiversary Happy Birthday, Blog! My blog is now officially a teenager (yikes) in human years, which makes me more of an elderblogger, except I’m still a ways...
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A Friday Rant About Technology
This is where I was yesterday afternoon, the patio at Taylor’s Port Wine Cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia, soaking up the sunshine and the view. Not that you can tell by this picture, but I was also...
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Technology Can Be Crazy-Making
I’m taking a wee pause from the travel and expat posts to seethe publicly about technology, namely outages on my web host’s servers that have been taking down my five websites on a too-frequent basis...
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A Stork Giving Me The Stink-Eye
I’ve added a few new pages to my website, and I’m using a few Alentejo cegonha (stork) photos to tell you about them. Not because there’s stink-eye involved (none whatsoever!), it’s only because I...
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Moving Pains
If you’ve noticed some odd behaviour on this website, hopefully it’s all back to normal now (fingers crossed). I moved the website to a new home. The previous post fell into the black hole of...
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14th Blogiversary: The Raconteurism Edition
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Blogiversary In the beginning… 14 years ago today, I started writing in Blogger, back in its innocent, unintegrated pre-Google days when it still belonged to...
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End-of-Year Randomosity, and Contemplating the Next Frontier
Café Progresso I’m choosing randomosity because it’s pretty cliché at the end of the year to make a list of things. Plus, I make lists and mark events all ‘year round. So here are some VSCO-processed...
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Downtime Is For The Birds
Mister Hugh (RIP) glaring at the internet … not the cats. My websites and email accounts were down for 11.5 hours! Apologies to anyone trying to reach us — we are frustrated with Bluehost’s downtime,...
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Post #5,000!
HSBC Celebration of Light, Vancouver (August 3, 2005) Little did I know, when I wrote Post #4,000 while on holiday (my annual birthday trip), that I would be writing Post #5,000 in the same place,...
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12th Blogiversary
To imagine in 2002 what this blog would look like in 2014 would be like looking into a crystal ball of the internet, something investors and probably most — if not the rest of us — would love to do....
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