Adventures in Homelabbing, Part One
So, what is homelabbing? While I really don’t like the verbing of nouns and the nouning of verbs that seem to be the current norm among advertisers and English speakers,…
Emigration Stories
As I’ve mentioned countless times on-line and in person, I am primarily of French-Canadian descent. To date, I have tracked my ancestral lines to 600 colonists who emigrated from France…
Humming Along
It’s been two months since the great apocalyptic infrastructure brew-ha-ha that nearly consumed me heart and soul. Since the move to the DreamCompute platform, things have been humming along quite…
Putting the Pieces Back Together
It takes a massive hiccup in the daily operations of the digital world to force one to take a full accounting of what one has wrought over time. Over the…
Flux Time: Back to the Future
flux /fləks/ n. :: the action or process of flowing or flowing out. “the flux of men and women moving back and forth” Things are in a great state of…
The Lineage of Claude Guérin dit Lafontaine (Part I)
This post contains a register of the first three generations descending from Claude Guérin dit Lafontaine, my paternal line ancestor, who arrived in Québec between 1690 and 1697. His marriage…
New Tricks for an Old Dog
Being an old experienced technologist comes with a particular set of challenges. The primary one is: things change. Yes, that is a common trope among the aging. As in society,…
Introducing the Terrifying 25
“The Terrifying 25 is one of several extremely fun hiking lists in New England. It is the only list dedicated to climbing the scariest of New Hampshire’s trails.” Hiking in…
My European Ancestors: Claude Guérin dit Lafontaine (1669-1708)
Claude Guérin dit Lafontaine was born about 1669 in Lusignan, France in the ancient department of Poitou. He was the son of Michel Guérin and Jeanne Véron and is the…
Seven Months Later
Time flies when you’re having fun. That’s what they say and it has been true for me. My last post was around Christmastime last year. Since then, there’s been quite…