Update: I was using the following models: deepseek-r1:7b and llama3:latest (7b)

Jason and I have been collecting data from the Ontario Government’s COVID-19 vaccination statistics and started to graph them in Grafana.

For a few years I’ve had this blog and The Thirsty Meeple blog. The former focused on tech, and our family. The other focused on our hobby of Table Top Gaming (Boardgames, RPGs) But both sites have not had much activity in some time so I’ve…

I have just done something totally crazy. I have signed up to GM a game at Gen Con. I will be running No Salvation for Witches from Lamentations of the Flame Princess. I think that going through the process of blogging about my experiences…

So where were we? Oh right, we were at the point where we decided to take the kids back to Gen Con this year. The kids were so excited to go that they started the count down as soon as we bought the badges.

Two weeks ago I was in Indianapolis with Ray and the kids attending Gen Con. This was our third year making the trek. Actually, Ray and I went alone the first year and then last year we decided to bring the kids. This year the kids insisted…

This year was our first Gen Con, we got housing but only at a hotel by the airport. There is zero traffic so driving in was easy and parking if you got there around 9am was reasonable and available. I heard lots of complaints about the shut…

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I was reminiscing about my childhood and computers in comparison to what my own children have. How booting up the Vic20 and later the C128 and being presented with nothing more than a blue screen and a flashing cursor prompting me to type i…

Ive been seeing this in my local postfix log:

Here are my top 12 albums for 2012, they are no in order as I consider them all great for varies reasons :) I also included a couple of bonus items that came out as an EP or a single.

Decided to restart the ol’blog. I’m getting kind of fed up with Twitter and Facebook isn’t the right platform for posts on a technical level. I thought of using Google+ but the thought of maintaining yet another social network didn’t sound…

On Saturday at 7:45PM Aidan buckled over in pain which we dismissed as bad gas pains and just watched him carefully through the night. On Sunday we took him into emerg where he didn’t react to any physical exam and blood, urine and xrays al…

The Canadian Liberal Party enters a Legal coup position, what I mean by that is by forming a coalition party with the NDP and with written support from the Bloc they can legally overthrow the current sitting Conservative Party Government fo…

It looks like we are all going to get Podcasts over the air via the iPhone/iPod Touch in the very near future and thats both good news and bad news. A while ago a 3rd party developer released an app to the app store that was denied that did…

We launched a new version of our homepage and overall site design today and are no longer in beta! Its a big day for us here at Mahalo HQ and I hope you all enjoy it. Below is a screenshot tour of the new layout.

Back in 2004 I wrote an email to all my Halton MPs and asked them 4 questions, this election I felt compelled to do it again! As with last time I will write each response below the question as I recieve them, here is the legend so you can e…

I’m starting to look at doing a Nucleus 2.0 which will be designed around getting online content into the Apple TV

I have a different take on what Web 3.0 will be. Some think its an edited version of wisdom of crowds (the basis of web 2.0), and that’s already happening especially at the company I work for Mahalo. If you look at some of the projects that…

Wow this is pretty cool when you get good blogging software for a devicethat fits in the palm of your hand :) granted I could blog from my old palm 3 but it was never this easy!

“Saving the world became secondary to the power of holding hands. There is an amazing amount of life and humanity throughout and a quality message to boot.” – Jeff Bayer (link removed)

As seen in the below video Mahalo now supports the Wiki Auto-Discovery button. Which is a button that indicates to you quickly and easily that you can also contribute to this page!

Have some fun this summer with these great How Tos from the How To team over at Mahalo this week! Enjoy over the summer with friends and family :)

Today I had a large (re: 4GB) file that I needed to do some search and replace on, and none of my text editors including my beloved Textmate could even open the file. So I turned to the most trusty of tools in my tool chest which is python!