Matt
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Global Kick Towards Abundance
The utopian future portrayed in Star Trek takes place is a post scarcity society where money has lost it’s importance and people more or less have the access to food, energy and housing they need to live as well as the freedom to acheive their personal life ambitions without worrying about where the next paycheque…
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Lockdown Projects
Making the most of things when stuck at home for the last couple of weeks, and plans for the next while. I’ve been chipping away at various small projects. I’m looking for things that I can get done with the things I have at hand and not going to the store. One of the recent…
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The Frequency of Disaster
In the midst of the current global crisis for COVID-19, I was reminded just how often we have found ourselves in Bug-in situations over the last decade. We have been personally impacted by 4 significant events in the last 12 years. In 2018 a tornado ripped through a power distribution station in Ottawa knocked out…
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Making Things Happen
There’s a limit to the things a single developer can accomplish as part of a project. I get a great deal from checking things off my todo list. You can write great code and propose great ideas, but there’s a limit to what a single person can accomplish without a team. A team can accomplish…
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Change Begets Change
It’s amazing just how much making a change can trickle to other changes in life. Moving and a new Job are things that can kick off a cascade of other impacts. This year I did both of those things. Switching from a self-employed, and renting back to employed in a normal 9-5, and owning +…
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Beast Mode
It can be amazing what is possible to accomplish in a day, week, month or year with the right motivation and habits. My life is documented in over 1500 blog posts on this website. My weekly routine for blogging has fallen to the wayside the past little while because of – new house purchase, packing,…
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Finished a Game – First time in a Decade
For the first time in maybe a decade I played a game all the way through to the finish. I don’t have much time to play games, but I’ve been chipping away at Portal 15 minutes at a time. Not sure if it was intentional, but it seemed a little too easy. Like geared towards…
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50 Year Apollo Anniversary
Hard to believe that it’s been 50 years since the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. It’s a long time ago, before my time when all that action went down. The Apollo mission was created and launched with teams of inexperienced kids who were hired right out of college at the age of 21 and…
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What’s going to happen to the ISS?
After two decades of ISS being the only game in town when it comes to space stations, things are finally starting to change. The decommissioning for ISS is in early planning stages now and the progress happening on new replacement stations from NASA and China, and perhaps Russia, as well as privately owned stations are…
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Da Vinci
The Science and tech museum hosted an exhibit about Leonardo da Vinci which we went to go see over the weekend. One thing for sure is that it made me feel inadequate. He was able to get so much stuff designed and built that it just makes my efforts to be productive look like a…
