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: Skiing P20 to the Mud Lookout
: Skiing P16 to Herridge Cabin
: Snowshoeing in the Greenbelt
: Skiing the Trail 53 & 51 Loop
: New Video: Snow Storm in Ottawa
: New Video: Skating Chaos at Canterbury
: Our New Photo Page For 2023!
: Skiing from P6 to the Lac Fortune Parkway
: Skiing from P5 to the Mackenzie King Road
: Skiing from P8 to the Champlain Parkway
: New Video: Skating at Canterbury
: Last Bike Ride to Osgoode for 2022
: Hike to the Ramparts Lookout
: New Video: The Grampian 26 sailboat Slowpoke sailed on Lac Deschenes
: New Video: Gatineau Park Hike from P7 to Lac Fortune
: New Video: Sailing Slowpoke to Aylmer Island
: New Video: Sailing the Grampian 26 Slowpoke
Stories
- Ruth's eulogy
(36 kB download)
- Ruth Denounces Parking Lot Midways, story & cartoons
(170 kB download)
- Are you going to give a High School Valedictory Speech? Why not save yourself all that time writing a new one and use my Valedictory Speech instead?
(60 kB download)
Social Networking

We are on Diaspora, the free, disbursed social network that is community run on free software, advertising free and you own your data.
Diaspora runs on many different pods, all networked together. Posts on one pod are synchonized to the other ones, making a seamless social network.
Find a pod, sign up and join us!
Linux
I have been using Linux-based computer operating systems since and you could be too, for free!
I use the Ubuntu operating system. Linux is free, very stable, has tens of thousands of free applications to do everything you need and doesn't run Windows viruses or spyware. If you want to read about my experiences switching from Windows to Linux, have a look at The Ubuntu Diaries Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV.
These two websites have some very useful background for people new to Linux:
For information on free and open source software for Windows have a look at the Windows Open Source/ Freeware Project.
For a list of recommended free software for all operating systems see the Free Software List.
Worthwhile free software that we use
- APT - package manager
- ClamTk - anti-virus
- Coreboot - firmware
- Evince - PDF reader
- FileZilla - file transfer protocol
- Firefox - web browser
- gedit - text editor
- Gnome Disks - storage device manager
- GParted - partition manager
- Gufw - firewall
- Imgp - command line image resizer and rotator
- Kdenlive - video editor
- LibreOffice - office suite
- Ubuntu - operating system
- mtPaint - image editor
- MPV - video player
- Nautilus - file manager
- nwipe - disk blanking utility
- Simple Scan - scanning utility
- Tesseract - optical character reader
- Transmission - bit torrent client
- Totem - video player
- Ventoy - live USB boot writer
- Wget - web page downloader
- WhoIs - domain system tool
- Youtube-DL - video downloader
- Zimbra Collaboration - webmail