Well, I’m proud of something. For the first time, I’ve tried the Coursera platform, and have just completed the online lectures and activities for the Bookkeeping Basics course. Loved it. I’m really excited too for the followups — really — to earn the Intuit Academy Bookkeeping Professional Certificate: Assets in Accounting, Liabilities and Equity in …
One of the best things I read in 2023 was a chapter of The Eagle and the Raven by James A. Michener (1990). A copy of Chapter One, “An Old Apple Tree,” was very kindly sent to me by Dr. Donald B. Smith, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Calgary. It has been …
In the spring of 2021, I set out to walk as many of Toronto’s ravines and nature trails as possible (COVID-19 restrictions and weekend subway closures allowing), tracking my progress on a map in purple marker. After varying degrees of lockdowns over the preceding winter, and since travel far afield was not happening, I was …
A quick post to say that today I learned of the Tulsa Race Massacre which took place 100 years ago on May 31 and June 1, 1921. Not just learned about, but of. Despite having a decent awareness of American history, and having lived one state away from Oklahoma in Colorado for 13 years, I’d …
Today I learned to edit audio files! Having a look around, Audacity seemed to be the most popular free, open source, cross-platform audio editing software. However, I chose to download and learn Ocenaudio, a similar utility which appeared to be easier for a beginner to use. As ever, YouTube had some very helpful video tutorials, …
This is a completely ridiculous video but it’s the first one I’ve ever made! A very fast first experiment using Video Editor for Windows 10. I’m way too proud of this and promise to improve in the future.
When I was a teenager, I spent many a spare period in my high school’s library poring over an illustrated book for young people describing an early 20th century American adventurer’s romantic tales of international travel (the Taj Mahal! the pyramids!). Being an academically oriented Canadian convent school (ahem…), this was a rather improbable and …
Much to my surprise, today I learned about urban coyotes. Trying to get some exercise on a sunny Sunday afternoon in February during the pandemic, I’d gone on a long walk towards the Yonge St. & York Mills Ave. area in North York. I decided to venture down a ravine-backed dead-end street I’d never tried …
Above: “The King’s Helmet from Sutton Hoo” by The British Museum, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. © The Trustees of the British Museum One of the most popular exhibits in The British Museum is found in Room 41: Sutton Hoo and Europe AD 300–1100, featuring artefacts from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. …
The North York Historical Society recently posted to Instagram its own take on the viral Bernie Sanders inauguration meme, using one of its best known historic photographs. View this post on Instagram A post shared by North York Historical Society (@northyorkhs) With digital marketing in mind, I was interested to see how other …
