I haven't seen anyone else write about this yet, so I am posting this just to stake my claim as the first one to mention it.  I think activated charcoal might be effective to adsorb the "novel coronavirus". There, I've said it. 

These are the links for products mentioned in my presentation to the Wellington Rotary Club on 5 May, 2020.

Several people have written to me with similar questions arising out of my appearance on the Danielle Smith show. My answers are here. 

This is just a hasty blog post to provide links to things I might mention on Danielle Smith's show on April 24, 2020.

If you're like me, you've probably dithered for years over whether or not to sign up for Amazon Prime. That's the service that gives you free shipping on almost everything Amazon sells, in return for a fixed monthly fee of $7.99 (CAN).  Here's what I finally decided, and why. 

Can you spot the tiny error in the image below?

The picture that accompanies this blog post was made on Keynote, by me, as a background for one of my future animated videos. I thought it was pretty good, considering the tools that Keynote offers.  

After it was done, I proudly shared a screenshot of it with a Facebook group of animated video makers. Much to my surprise, one of them pointed out that there’s a tiny white square, smack in the middle of the image, on the horizon. Oops!  It’s a little handle, indicating that the green block of grass was “active” when I took my screenshot.

This is the kind of error that crops up occasionally after you’ve spent a long time looking at something. I’ve often noticed it in documents that I have composed myself, or documents I’ve proofread for other people. Your brain considers that part of the work completed, so it sees what it expects to see, rather than what is really there.

This is the kind of error that other people can spot, but you’ll probably never notice yourself, until you look at it years later with “stranger’s eyes.”

It underlines the need to have your important documents proofread by an attentive editor.

It's not often that I feel the government is using my money wisely, but today I attended something called a "Business Start Up Workshop" at the Chamber of Commerce premises in Quinte West, Ontario (aka Trenton). 

A speaker came to my service club this week with a PowerPoint presentation that showed she really hadn't grasped the "power" part of the software's name. She used it so ineffectively that it actually detracted from her presentation, rather than improving it. 

A few days ago, a municipal politician came and spoke to my service club at our weekly breakfast meeting, before about 30 club members. Let's just say his speech could have been better.