Island Transit on Rails

It's time for the 21st Century. In this article I will lay out a vision for rail based transportation integrated seamlessly with other public transit on this Island (colonially named Vancouver Island). The Deadline for the Island Corridor Foundation The Supreme Court ruling (read a brief here) in Snaw-Naw-As First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General), …

To a Mentor – Donna Brett

Thank you. I don't want to make this long, it wouldn't be what Donna would want anyway. But I do feel compelled to write. Donna Brett - former Councillor, Mayor (acting) and Freeman of the City of Port Alberni - passed away recently. Donna was one of the first people to sign my nomination papers …

How-to: Creating my own selfhosted Mastodon Server with Debian on an old iMac

Doing it my way. As I mentioned in a previous post, the rise of the decentralized social media network of users and servers known as Mastodon has been quite amazing. Since Mastodon is at its core, wait.. that it does not have a core, it is a decentralized system, then it only seemed natural for …