Home sales can tricky. Often you have to see the house to know how fantastic it is. I feel like this is one of those houses. Rebuilt from the studs. Network cabling throughout. #onre #oshawa #gta

Open house today and tomorrow between 2 and 4pm.

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Why are Airpods so hard to get out of the case, but so easily go flying everywhere when you drop said case? #hmm

Toronto’s biggest landlord warns over half its homes could fall into critical condition unless it gets more cash Toronto Community Housing Corp. says money to fix its repair backlog is running out as new problems with its aging housing stock add up.

Ontario's biggest slumlord: www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Toyota unveils new RAV4 in Woodstock YouTube video by CTV News

Amazing. Go for it for it Toyota.

youtu.be/iBN7p_WcnsU

Revisiting John Candy

On a day like today, John Candy is the cure if you're feeling down. He left us too soon. Let's revisit John Candy.

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The iodd ST300 Drive Enclosure – A Virtual Drive PowerTool Iodd seems to be adept at making clones of other company's products (see Zalman). This one may be a clone also, though it's hard to know. The ST300 drive enclosure is something of a unique product. It...

Virtual Drives are kind of a niche thing, but they're the perfect tool for I.T. folks. I found a new one and wanted to share my thoughts on it.

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Here’s a Free RustDesk Address Book Tool You Might Not Have Tried

For those on the free version of rustdesk, this is a huge help for managing connections, and it's free too.

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The Wrong Side of Facebook Marketplace and Kijiji On occasion I partake in online sales. These usually take the form of Kijiji or Facebook Marketplace listings and an in-person meeting to either buy or sell an item. The vast majority of the time, thi...

Today, the story of how online marketplaces can go wrong. Enjoy.

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Fighting Through an Open Redirect Compromise In mid November of 2025, a web property I manage had the distinction of being compromised. Locking this site down had been difficult because of how many had permission over the installation. Too many ...

These sorts of compromises are insidious and annoying. A look at how I handled an open redirect.

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The Strange Case of Keyboards Locking on Windows Boot (and a Fix) As this fellow was booting up the computer, an unusual thing started to happen: the keyboard wasn't working or initializing on boot. Not only that, but also the built-in mouse was failing. Now, if on...

It's a strange issue, but this is one way to fix it:

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WhatsApp for Windows Forces a Horrible Update on Users

The holidays are almost here, but today I have a story of how a free program became worse.

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RustDesk Has Its Certificate Revoked

RustDesk Has Its Certificate Revoked and all hell breaks lose. #RemoteAccess #OpenSource

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Is the internet really dead? YouTube video by Christophe

Yep
youtu.be/qWK47sqLmJQ

Removing Archive and Tag Pages from Search Engines The problem I set to tackle today related to the glut of cwl.cc page references found on search engines that were of no value outside. How was I going to remove these in the most elegant way possible?...

New Post: Removing Archive and Tag Pages from Search Engines [How-To]

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Putting My Spin On the Windows 11 Local Account Bypass Thanks to Microsoft's relentless drive to enshittify Windows we've all been playing 'cat and mouse' with their need to force logins to Microsoft accounts when Windows first boots. Microsoft's push to ...

New Post: Putting My Spin On the Windows 11 Local Account Bypass

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Choosing the Best Format for a Book Release

Choosing your book format is a crucial step.

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TLS/SSL and the ‘Unsafe’ Web

Let's talk about web encryption.

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Blowing a Death Whistle at Nuance: The Discourse Over Bill 60 in Ontario

I've been watching the discourse around Bill 60 in Ontario with great interest. Here are some thoughts about what I saw. #onpoli #housing

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A Look at Notepad 11.2510.6.0 and Tables

On occasion I look at super-new software to see whats coming soon. Today, the small text editor in Windows called notepad is in the spotlight for its tables feature..

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Book – Enshittification I love this book. It's so perfect for 2025. Cory Doctorow came up with the word, in 2022, to describe how all the digital services that increasingly dominated our daily lives seemed to be getting wors...

New post: I talk about the book Enshittification (Spoiler alert: it's great)

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In Search of the Perfect Screenshot Tool on Windows

There are so many great screenshot tools out there for Windows, and I don't often find new ones to recommend. These are best of the best.

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This is amazing, Thunderbird (a popular open source email client) now supports Exchange servers (365 too).

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Speed Cameras Shut Off in Ontario

Something a little different on the blog today, I talk about Ontario's shuttering of speed cameras. #onpoli

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Seeing an uptick in what looks like an obvious scam in online marketplaces. This is occurring too often not to be suspicious. It's always an ask to deliver to an address. High value items. On Google Maps, the address is residential. Most profiles look fake. Not clear the scam, anyone seen it?

Testing Journelly – Notes on Your iPhone It's not a regular occurrence for me to test an app these days. Things are far too chaotic and the time isn't always there to try out things. Journelly itself is quite simple and easy; this is what ap...

New Article: I test a note taking app for your phone. #review

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The iPhone 17 Pro Max – the State of the Art

Had a chance to spend some time with this new phone and share my thoughts on it.

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Starting a new list and renewing my commitment to blogging. Please join me on this journey: cwl.cc/subscribe

AI is Already Stealing Away My Posts and Traffic

AI is Already Stealing Away My Posts and Traffic

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HTTPS by default One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...

[Enshittification] by default - security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...

Choosing How and Where to Publish a Book

When I was looking to publish my first book, it would going to be sled-published. But, then I needed to decide where to publish. Here are some thoughts: cwl.cc/2025/11/choo...