I had a desire to do some bike-camping. I did some research, including reading my friend Ben Massey’s guide to Golden Ears (recommended). I discovered that there was a backcountry site at Viewpoint Beach, which, unusually, was accessible by a designated “mountain bike” trail.
Continue reading “75% Survival Rate, or, The Gang Goes Backcountry Bike Camping”Technical Debtor’s Prison
So, my friend Keith (funny story about my friends Keith…another time perhaps) heard the tale of my Drupal non-upgrade, and encouraged me to write it up.
Long ago, I set up Wired Cola as a blogger.com site, and it was fine. I even pointed wiredcola.com at it. Time passed, it seemed good to move it to my own Drupal site, hosted on a provider. And it was good. I configured the setup myself, back when Drupal 4 or 5 was current, and all was well.
Drupal has a principle, a reasonable one, that “the drop keeps moving,” which is their way of politely saying “stay current or die.”
Good advice.
I didn’t stay current.
Continue reading “Technical Debtor’s Prison”The Canadian Flag is Easy to Get Wrong
So, fun fact, the Canadian flag, long may it fly, is really easy to get wrong. Why? Mainly due to the aspect ratio.
First, let’s review the spec for the Canadian Flag. The Government of Canada has a page with general specifications for the flag, but it’s not really detailed enough for you to make a properly conforming flag or graphic. It does however refer you to the relevant Canadian General Standards Board specs that do go into gory detail, but without a direct link.
So Ryan, How was your vacation?
I don’t know how to go on vacation without some really, really specific prompts. And this year, thanks to some family business my lovely bride had to take care of, I was on my own for six weeks. We’re in week six of this “vacation” and here’s a table of things done, and not done:
| Did on Vacation | Didn’t on Vacation |
| Spent a week negotiating a contract | Camping |
| Attended a union meeting in Terrace | Personal development |
| Rode bicycle 200 km in the dark | Swam at the beach |
| Helped run a provincial championship bike race | Worked on my novel |
Dark Reboot
I backed myself into an unpleasant corner with some very tedious system administration stuff on Regular Wired Cola, so now we’re making Wired Cola: WiFi edition.
I’ve been avoiding writing blog posts because I’ve been avoiding the quite messy administrative nightmare of fixing a few years of technical debt.
That’s when I realized I could just do a one-click install, and hey! Maybe things don’t suck anymore.