With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Happy opening day

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Congrats to the famous Mark Carney, but I can’t help but feel like Michael Bolton from Office Space today.

Here's hoping your Synology migration goes fine. I did the same thing moving from the same 5-bay unit you had to an 8-bay unit, and had no issues.

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Just more proof that we didn't domesticate cats; they domesticated us.

The UCP would do well to have more compassionate members.

The first hot dog company that makes a tasty hot dog and sells them in packages of TWELVE will get all my business.

Yay, now you won the hotel room lottery!

Move zig for great justice!

Text says, "Time to update a resource! That's right! POST request. Time to delete a resource. That's right! POST request." Image shows Alison Burke getting upset about all the pieces going into the square hole.

Some API developers be like:

Wow that’s a pretty dirty move from Canada Post. Rather than negotiate with the workers, it’s violating the Canada Labour Code and laying people off during the strike. The strike going on longer is going to be at their feet. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

White pigeon holding a feather

Pidgey molted a large feather, and has been playing with it all morning, proudly carrying it around her cage, and wiggling her head to flap it.

Alright, I'm very impressed with the Raspberry Pi Imager. Up 'til now I've used Balena Etcher, but the Pi Imager made it so easy to also configure boot settings like username and password, WiFi, time zone, and SSH, where it even auto-loaded my public key.

Jackrabbit sitting in a scratched out hole next to a tree in the snow.

Fren in the snow.

Saving the CBC is really about saving Canada Pierre Poilievre reportedly has plans to slash the CBC's budget. That would be a disaster for national unity.

Saving the CBC isn't just about protecting your favourite program or personality. It's about preserving national unity -- and preventing Canada from being subject to a hostile foreign takeover. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/19/o...

Here's why Africa is the world leader in digital and mobile banking Africa leads the world in digital and mobile banking, providing financial inclusion to millions of previously unbanked people. Here are the facts.

Wait until you see how Africa's banks are more advanced than ours! Real-time transfers without holds, micro loans that aren't payday loan scams, 24h service, and more.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

This makes my job so much easier.

Fortunately my route doesn't take me that way, but it took me 30 minutes just to traverse the community of Chaparral.

The first heavy snowfall of the year should always be declared a snow day for Calgary schools, because that would take the school busses and 20% of the cars off the roads. Heck, it should be a snow day for everyone else, as well, so the plows can get out there. Traffic this morning was brutal.

Frakes complimented me on my beard that day.