We’ve been doing a lot of thinking and planning for an upcoming vacation, and one of the things I’ve seriously considered doing is leaving my phone at home.

I’m not any kind of real expert on monetary transaction in any sense of the word, other than that I now have well over thirty years of experience in spending money. As such, those thirty years have seen a whole variety of changes.

So, it’s been about two and a half weeks since I broke down and did an early upgrade on my phone, landing myself with a very slick — and now orange-be-cased — Samsung Galaxy Note.

Today is my brother Derek’s thirty-second birthday. Most readers either (a) know that or (b) don’t care.
I only mention it now because nine years ago today, thanks to a reminder and according to the little script currently running on this blog, …

Funny. I was sitting on the train, holding my phone, and an email alert appeared on the screen.   Some website I had signed up to years back, a social network for dogs (and their owners, presumably) had sent me a birthday …

In the ten-plus odd years since I started this blog I’ve made use of many different tools and techniques to create the nearly 1,650 posts in its archives.   For example, while I sit on a train writing this particular post on …

We’re spending a sunny morning in Penticton, recuperating from a drive-from-hell. The wedding is at three, so that gives us a few more hours to enjoy the beach before the social obligations begin, and another few hours for Karin to catch …