I hope everyone enjoyed the Holidays, and got to spend time with family and friends.  I was able to do so and was really happy to spend time with our two sons and their friends.  I took the opportunity to take a break from writing and did not publish an article last week.  During that break I did spend time thinking about and coming up with an outline of topics I want to write about in 2026.  My list of topics is not etched in stone, and so if there are any topics of interest to you that...

What A Year! I’m writing this article on December 21st, which is the shortest day of the year.  This time of year (November and the first half of December) are particularly tough because it gets dark so early in the day, around 4:30pm…and then later in the day while it may only be 6:30 at night, it feels like it’s 11PM.  Why is that?  It’s partially due to the end of Daylight Savings Time, or the “Fall Back”, which brings on the darkness an hour earlier.  That plus the fact that in Ottawa...

Should This Be A Thing ? In the past week I read two articles about artificial intelligence that got my attention.   The first was about a recently released song that made its way to number 1 on the Billboard Country Charts. This song, entitled, “Walk My Walk” was generated entirely by AI, was credited to a fictional artist named “Breaking Rust”, who didn’t exist two months ago and whose avatar is depicted as white.  The ethnicity of the avatar is important because it turns out the song was...