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This website was last updated on Tuesday 09 February 2010

The Anti-Prorogation Rally
on Parliament Hill

Unmarketing

"Don't worry, you're
probably not ready
for Linux yet anyway."

Flying the North Atlantic - Flight 8 Meeting 27 January 2010

"The last fighter pilot's already been born" - Adam on unmanned aviation

Our Best of Free Windows Software CD has been updated with Firefox 3.6, Gedit 2.29.2, Gimp 2.6.8, Iron 4.0.280, Stellarium 0.10.3 & Thunderbird 3.0.1

At the Anti-Prorogation Rally on Parliament Hill

Our Middle of Winter Dim Sum Party

Photos from everything we've done in 2010 so far

Ruth Reviews The Acer Aspire 150 Netbook

Our New Free Book - The 2010 updated version of our 1998 text book - M.E.E.T. - Manager Employee Effectiveness Training

Ruth's Buddha Notes - Craving the end of Craving

Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix On An Acer Aspire 150

Decreased Canadian Aircraft Private Fleet Growth In 2009 - The Year End Analysis

New video - Nick's 17th Birthday

Matt, Rachael & Nick Visit

Julian, Elisabeth & Nigel Visit

New Recipe: Cocoa Meringue Cookies

New video - Skiing the Sawmill Creek Constructed Wetlands

Revisiting Sunbird Calendar

Our Best of Free Windows Software CD project has earned an award!

Ski Season Starts

22 cm of Snow And We Are Really Done Quadracycling for 2009!

We Actually Posted a New Joke

Ruth's Buddha Notes - Gratitude

New Julian in Maui Photos

New Catrike Speed Tires

New Feature - Ruth's Buddha Notes

Zuby is no longer with us

Photos from everything we've done in 2009 so far

Matt's Band, Projekt's first release

Bye Bye Windows

Are you going to give a high school Valedictory Speech this year? Why not save yourself all that time writing a new one and use our Valedictory Speech instead? PDF Document 60 kB download

Ruth's first e-book has been published! Get your free download copy of MS & Other Musings

Our XHTML Project Converting this website to hand coded and validated XHTML

MS & Other Musings

Ruth's e-book MS & Other Musings is doing well, with quite a number of copies downloaded by visitors to this website.

If you haven't already read Ruth's book, then please do go ahead and download your free copy. Forward it to your friends too. After all, that is what free books and free culture are all about!

What people have said about MS and Other Musings:

"It is beautiful: moving, intelligent, and a great source of inspiration and knowledge as well."

"I was very impressed with Ruth's book. She is an amazing woman."

"I think what you've done is great...I sincerely applaud your undertaking."

Our Videos

Nick's 17th Birthday
Skiing the Sawmill Creek Constructed Wetlands
Ruth Catriking
Adam's Catrike Speed
Ruth's Catrike Trail
Strange goings on at Hurdman Transit Station
Ruth shows the best thing about Sandbanks
What is Better Than Finger Puppets?
Adam & Ruth go Flying
Simon & Moira Snorkelling in Maui
Ruth and Adam Skiing Gatineau Park
Ruth Comments on Ski Conditions In Gatineau Park
The Zuby Show
Ruth and Rachael hiking in Gatineau Park
Rachael and Nick present "Ingot Wars"
Ruth Goes Flying
Zuby Combusts
Our Rhoades Car Quadracycle
The CBC Ottawa six o'clock news documentary on our quadracycle that first aired on May 2nd 2007 was posted on the CBC website! See it in QuickTime or Real Player formats. It runs just under four minutes!

Free Software

We use the Linux-based Ubuntu computer operating system and you could be too, for free! If you want to read about our experiences switching from Windows to Linux, have a look at Our Ubuntu Diaries.

For information on free and open source software for Windows have a look at our Windows Open Source/ Freeware Project. We also have a Best of Free Windows Software CD for users on dial-up who can't download huge files themselves.

For a list of recommended free software for all operating systems see our Free Software List.