On this day, December 15 – In memory of the Tani Family

Updated Dec 7 2019 Ancestry stumbled on a new and interesting record just yesterday... so I have added it to the story below... I would like to tell you a story about a man named James Tani. Mr Tani came to Canada at the age of nineteen. He was a fisherman and came like many others …

Followup Blog: Graphs from the Referendum

I wrote a blog a few weeks ago poking at the media for making such a big kerfuffle about the "low turnout" in the Referendum after just a few days of data coming back from Elections BC.  I noted the differences in numbers indicated a likely connection to patterns in how ballots were mailed out, …

Monitoring and getting a handle on my Screen Time using Apple’s built in iOS tools

This morning a notification popped up on my iPad. Weekly screentime notification. The latest versions of iOS have a setting included called “Screen Time”. It is meant to help us all (adults and children) get a handle on our addiction to these devices through tracking our time on the applications that we use.  It provides …