Thanks to all you folks in the Ubuntu community who reminded me about Ubuntu’s 10th birthday! I also have rarely been involved so actively and so long as I have in Ubuntu. So why? Good question. Randall Ross nails it in his ‘7 P’s’ article. they are again for you to review and a reminder of what you are missing…
The Secular and Spiritual Need for a Team
This topic has been on my heart a lot and seems to pop up all the time in entrepreneurial discussions and spiritual discussions. In business, it seems there are people who want to start up a company but want to do everything themselves. They want full ownership of the company and want to make sure that all gains for their…
The Battle of Disciples of Christ as Parents of Children in a New Age Education System
Are you a parent of a kid in a ‘secular’ school and find that your spirit is grieved by stuff that’s happening? You are not alone. I also am battling this and far, far sooner than I had expected. First, a quick background: I’m a disciple of Jesus the Christ of Nazereth, aka ‘a Christian’. I refrain from using the…
Why Not Getting Rich Quick is Good
This revelation has been a long time in the making. There is a lot of teaching out there in the world that goes something like this: richer is better riches will increase happiness getting rich quicker is better than getting rich slowly he who has more riches is has accomplished more in this world the amount of riches is equal…
How to Easily Take Website Pages to Go with Built in Ubuntu Features
Want to read an article later and not use your data plan? Going somewhere and want to look at a website page without worrying about an internet connection? Can’t seem to find the time to read an article in the near future but worry the article might be gone when you get around to reading it? If you are using…
Chewy Junior: When You’re This Yummy, They Call You “Junior”
“Chewy Junior” – There’s just something awesome in the name. I’m not sure if it sounds ‘saucy’ or ‘childish’, but no matter what, whenever I tell my friends I’m going to Chewy Junior, by far Canada’s most exciting franchised food and beverage business to open in recent history, they look at me funny. But that all ends when I flip…
Why Yelp is No So Good
Yes, I did intend to write ‘no so good’. I have an accent so lay off, cut me some slack and throw a dog a bone. I have meaning to post this for a long time and failed but recently there was some article about how Yelp was found to be scammy in the way it deals with reviews, so…
How to Start Thunderbird and Other Programs at Startup in Ubuntu 14.04
UPDATE 2023: A full nearly 10 years later I realized this blog post is still nearly good but a small change is required in the steps below as follows for ubuntu 22.04+ kind of range after step 2: * after hitting the browse button in step 2 you need to hit ‘+ Other Locations’ at bottome of left pane, then…
Telus: You Call That Tech Support?
I just had to share my horrific Telus internet tech support story. It was so frustrating that it is interesting. Because they have said they will be giving me a couple of months free internet, I’m not going to include a few other stories that surrounded this one, but it’s wrong for me not to share at least this one. …
Morse Code in Music
As a licensed and active amateur radio operator, I started learning morse code a few months back. My reasoning is that it’s like audible brail – why would I not want to learn that? If I was fluent at it I could communicate effectively without words… Anyway, my buddy Joe found this video on youtube which actually caught me off…