On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I make no guarantee as to whether I'll be able to finish reading all of these, and several are loans from the local library.

• As I Walked About - A Collection of Walking Columns from the Ottawa Citizen - Phil Jenkins
• Star Trek: Picard - The Dark Veil - James Swallow
• The Information - James Gleick
• Glimpses of Cumberland Township - For the Honour of Our Ancestors - Cumberland Township Historical Society
• In Defense of Housing - David Madden and Peter Marcuse
• Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus - Douglas Rushkoff
• Cartographic Grounds - Projecting the Landscape Imaginary - Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim
• Thunderbird - Jack McDevitt
• Tracing The History of Your House in Ottawa - City of Ottawa Archives
• Packaged Toronto - A Collection of the City's Historic Design - Matthew Blackett, Wayne Reeves and Alexandra Avdichuk

1. The job search continues. As I type this, I'm looking at Indeed and Jobilico. I expect to check several federal commissions, departments and agencies, a couple of crown corporations, GC Jobs, the federal Job Bank, and at least ten temp placement companies (yet again) over the rest of today.

2. I hope to listen to Ontario Today at noon, because Perseverance on Mars is the topic of the day.

3. Downloading new updates for Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher.

4. The Affinity suite is still on sale from Serif.com at half-price as I type this. About C$35 for each of the three programs in the suite.

5. Inkscape and Krita and the like are also still useful freeware, so why not get those too?

6. Listening to The Current right now. The discussion in progress as I type this entry?

Letter-writing. Actual letters through the paper-mail system. Apparently, this is making a come-back among many who have the time and enough other resources.

7. More later today as I think of it.

I'm looking at op-ed cartoonist Michael de Adder's latest illustration for the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting: Facebook as a Borg "cube" ship, Australia as the TMP version of the Enterprise...and I am starting to wonder if IDW - the current comics license-holders - and CBS Studios ought to get in touch with Mr. de Adder about...whatever he might have a mind to do.

To make it plain:

Hire this guy, people.

Add this one to the list, I suspect.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/02/17/1935241/facebook-blocks-all-news-in-and-from-australia

I am left thinking that this was planned to happen this way.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/18/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban

Solution was simple:

Do not use Firefox Home. That feature was taking up too much bandwidth/processor time when I launched Firefox.

Apparently, I'm not alone in having the problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689032

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/l7xgei/firefox_85_freezes_after_start_with_solution/glfpm56/

Writing workshop in progress this afternoon, for practice and for mental health.

Tonight, I get to watch a lecture on architecture organized via Zoom by Carleton University's Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. Been wanting to attend those, but timing pre-Pandemic never seemed to work out. Especially with the distance between Carleton U and Orléans. Zoom lectures are a boon right now!

I've still got some degree of privilege, despite my financial situation this past year. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to look at those video tutorials. Or, for that matter, read and pass this along:

http://jlord.us/blog/osos-talk.html

Nor would I be able to look at this (and thanks to kiaa for passing it along via talkpolitics):

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/seven-secrets-revealed-by-2020-by-yanis-varoufakis-2020-12

Getting to the point: we still want to leave the Time of Pandemic to enter a newer, better "Normal" than we entered it from. Right?

Space nerd wants to revisit this site later. You might end up having fun too.

http://scifleet.esa.int/#/

Good to see someone dropping into this blog from there, however briefly! Thank you for letting yourself be seen!

GoDaddy is "squatting" the *.ca version of their domain name. That IS a problem, right?