2025

They say memories tied to sound aren’t just recalled…they’re relived. A few sounds can do what entire conversations cannot. Sonic imprints sneak in as they don't require your focus, they pull you out of the present time before you can see them coming! What sounds bring you to your calm? What sounds

I was thinking, these days- sometimes using a computer is rather boring, or unexciting. Doing things on a computer that were once amazing or unimaginable, are now unremarkable and pedestrian. I'd argue that the days of interacting with the computer mainly by keyboard was somehow better. I think it

Do young people of today know of ATI when they see a AMD Radeon video card? And do people in general know that ATI was a Canadian based company? The last standing competitor to Nvidia graphics; ATI or, as known now- AMD Radeon. In my time, buying ATI was seen as supporting a Canadian company VS the

For some reason the 'May two-four weekend' has me thinking about food. For the uninitiated, this is in commemoration of Queen Victoria's birthday which was May 24th. It is generally a holiday in Canada and is marked on the Monday before the 24th. It also marks the beginning of the summer season,

Initially, in Kindergarten we didn't have any computers at all. There might have been an odd occasion where we could go to another classroom to use a computer - but mostly they kept the K grade kids off of those expensive machines. For grade 1 and beyond, we started to have a single Apple II

A lifelong preoccupation with computers probably began with the ASMR hum of IBM Selectric electronic typewriters in my grandfathers downtown Ottawa law office. That audible hum of electronics running - waiting to take action at the beck and call of your key press. There was something exciting about