It’s been about four years since I wrote an article about the state of encryption on the web. With news that Google is about to step up its efforts to warn users of “insecure” pages, I thought I’d revisit this topic that never ends. Encryption on the web is good. It’s good for everyone. I […]
With the passage of Bill 60 in Ontario, there has been an intense focus on the Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) aspects of this bill. Rental groups protested this Bill right up to the last minute. The government passed it with no public consultation and even backed down on a portion that related to month-to-month leases […]
There has been a ton of talk about the many changes of the (once) simple text editing tool in Windows called Notepad. A recent insider build of Windows 11 with version 11.2510.6.0 of Notepad features some very interesting new features to this venerable tool. For purists who like to only edit text, they hate this […]
I love this book. It’s so perfect for 2025. Cory Doctorow came up with the word, in 2022, to describe how all the digital services that increasingly dominated our daily lives seemed to be getting worse at the same time. I managed to read the book…
The absolute most common thing I do with my daily-use computer is file management, but a close second is taking screenshots of just about anything. This is such a common occurrence that the demand for a great screen grab tool has led me to expect a great deal from whatever tool I use. Previously, I’ve […]
With the passing of Bill 56, The Government of Ontario has removed authorization for the use of automated speed enforcement cameras from the Highway Traffic Act. There is an approach that I often attribute to progressives that is punitive. This assumes that people do wrong by default and the established structure should be setup to […]
It’s not a regular occurrence for me to test an app these days. Things are far too chaotic and the time isn’t always there to try out things. Journelly itself is quite simple and easy; this is what appealed to me about it. All of the text-based features you expect are there including spell-check and whatever else you invoke from the keyboard interface. Yes, even the Apple A.I. stuff is available too…
I have a conversation that repeats every year and it goes like this: My friend “When are you getting the new iPhone xx?”Me: “Not this year. For sure I’m skipping it.”My Friend: “Uh huh” The thing is, there’s no lack of conviction when I say that. Recent years, however, I have been upgrading steadily through […]
Previously, I wrote about the prevalence of artificial intelligence (A.I. or the more common AI) and whether we should be worried. Months later, I came across a very real reason bloggers are getting worried about AI. Google appears to have taken a post of mine and used it to train its Gemini model an inject […]
Last year I self-published From Rent to Ruin. Part of this process required me to find the right way to make this book available to as many people as possible. Of course, like most authors, I wanted to be with a traditional publisher that believed in my work. I wanted to give my book the […]