For most of its existence, you have been accessing abelfamily.ca using the url http://abelfamily.ca; or if you are more adventurous http://abelfamily.ca/wordpress. This is fine but security processes suggest configuring and using https://etc. In my experience,
Looks like some more devious stuff was left in site’s location that facilitated another hack. I believe that it is all gone. Also some more difficulties with fixing access to the site’s administrative area. As
It is a sort of good news, bad news story. The bad news is that Abelfamily.ca was hacked for the third time and it is getting pretty tiresome. The good news is that I was
You may have noticed a lack of activity on Abelfamily.ca. In fact, my access to site administration was compromised, I believe by some sort of malicious attack. I didn’t mess too much with it since
Click on the photo for more Well another Groundhog Day has come and gone. It is an even numbered year, so a visit to Wiarton is required. By prior agreement, Sam and Trevor accompanied me; Mumtaz
So you may remember my New Years’ Card making reference to a reunion of a few of us that opened and worked at the Meridien Vancouver, in particular my snarky comment about not getting any
Happy New Year to all. For this year’s New Years’ Card, please click here. Afterwards, if you would like to see more, click on the Abelfamily Logo in the top left of the screen or
Sam and Trevor are very proud; and she did it in time for their first anniversary.
It was an interesting summer in St. Catharines, in fact for all communities on Lake Ontario due to very high water levels for most of the summer (it wasn’t totally a natural phenomenon by the
The Random folder doesn’t really connect to the site anymore so watch for a blog post whenever I put new photos into the Random Folder. Tasnim and Layla Layla in Edmonton in July Sorry for the focus
I head to Toronto to spend the day with Sam and Trevor; at the end of the day Mumtaz arrives from Vancouver. This is a very unusual photos post in that there are a lot
It was quite a summer coloured by the passing of Mumtaz’s mother. Mumtaz arrived in Edmonton very soon after, Sam, Trevor and I travelled together to join the family. Mumtaz stayed in Edmonton to assist
WARNING — SOME TECH TALK AHEAD So you may have noticed difficulties with Abelfamily.ca since the late spring. The methodology that I implemented to hook the photos to the site simply stopped working. I
After a long struggle with heart disease, Mumtaz’s mom passed away in late July. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and renowned for her dedication to her community.
Sometime in late Spring, the method that I employed to link photos on this site to my database of photos on One Drive seems to have crashed. Everything prior to February 2016 is working fine.
CFVNB the splendid Cirrus SR22 Turbo has been sold. Here is the new plane, an excellent 2007 Diamond DA40XLS. It is less capable and slower but much less expensive to operate and actually has a
This winter in Niagara was quite peculiar. No snow whatsoever until mid March; then a pretty major snow storm followed by another week of above zero weather. Mumtaz headed for Edmonton to look after her