Robbert

Back in the South. Wife still continuing with her Ph.D. Spring break is on at the moment and we want to take a small trip just to get away a bit. So I am taking a look at what’s about and noticed something. Almost every destination around here has some sort of ‘Civil Rights’ museum. […]

Lately, because I have bee away from home for extended periods, I have used Canada Post’s online tools to set up mail forwarding to may folk’s place until we come back. The first few times I could do it without having to visit the post office at all. The second last time they had asked

One thing about software development is that you need to stay organized. A big part of that is tracking your todos, features, bugs, etc. (tasks.) For the longest time I was just using a text editor like notepad++. It worked. The problem with going text only is that sorting the list of tasks is very

Ugh… I have been saying this over the last few years. Just a serious lack of motivation and procrastination on my part killing any momentum. However, this year, I am going to make a much more serious effort to stop slacking off. Mainly because I find my future at the company I currently work for

Marathon drive back from Alabama to Vancouver. Before we left I checked the weather along the route. It was predicted to have snowfall around Oregon which was troubling me so I wanted to beat that at all costs. In the end no snow anywhere along the route. Fine by me. Although Oregon, the whole state,

Currently in Alabama again. And to make matters more lovely we are experiencing High 30s, low 40s weather. Definitely AC weather. Thankfully our AC is working like a champ. What gave out was the Forced Air Motor that actually moved the air in our apartment here. So, all things considered, our AC is not working.

Computers can often ease your life greatly or they can cause such frustration. I’m a software developer and I do software development as a hobby. So I buy the Microsoft Compiler like every other version because it is not cheap and their subscription cost is even worse. But for Windows programming, it is by far

Well. Just when I thought the boot drive was sorted, the replacement spinning disk drives were acting up. So to avoid more heartache, I bit the bullet and bought two new SSDs to replace everything. 1 SSD for backup if the first one fails. Still have a backup of the SSD on one of the

We got back home to Vancouver. Turn on the main desktop computer and all is working fine. A lot of updates were needed so had it start with that and left it be. Not long after saw the unhappy emoji blue screen of death and wondered how that could have happened. Fine, reboot. And the

Worst purchase ever was buying an LG G4 cell phone. Although I do have a love for the machine. The design was clean and nice with user replaceable battery to boot. Plus it could act like a IR remote control since my actual remove controls with membrane buttons have failed more than their share. The