At the end of February, I retired from the Hilton Niagara Falls after some 22 years. I have surprisingly little to say about it. The classic joke about this sort of thing is: “when I
For our trip to the Kitchener and Guelph areas, we were set for a night in Hespeler before the exciting trip to the Halton Radial Railway. We resolved to use only secondary routes to get
At the bottom of every page on this blog you will see the Contact the System Administrator section. I had to disable the feature due to being flooded with spam. The feature is back with
If I’m feeling a bit melancholic as we approach Halloween, it is because late fall 2020 could have been so memorable. Sam’s convocation was a couple of days ago, she has been a doctor since
The blog was off line for nearly 3 months. Nothing serious but there were some security issues with a couple of the pages. When I brought it back up, there was a catastrophic error while
WARNING! Tech talk ahead. Some time ago, Google and other search engines began tagging web sites without an SSL/TLS certificate as dangerous. This was more a nuisance than anything else, most users learned to blast
Beginning next year, we will be celebrating National Egg Day on June 3. This is will be a difficult holiday to integrate into the schedule; note this extract from the National Day Registry NATIONAL EGG
It will help find contents by Who, What or Where. Feel free to report errors or omissions.
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 recall that we travel to Wiarton every second year on even numbered years so this would typically be an off year. Last year, we agreed to break with tradition and travel to Punxsutawney
For the second time in the history of Abelfamily.ca, I’m shutting down commenting. Commenting attracts a lot of spam which is mildly irritating to manage. The volume has increased dramatically in the last 2 months;
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
So if you have been reading the blog, you might wonder how my alleged trips to Europe and Florida went. The Florida trip was rescheduled to the end of March then ultimately cancelled. The Europe
We hope Groundhog Day celebrations were especially exciting this year. Typically we do not travel to Wiarton on odd numbered years. Since we went to Punxsutawney last year, I was tempted to break with tradition and
No further technical talk. Despite the dire warnings … May has come and gone and the site’s older content is intact. I expected the old slide shows to disintegrate but to my surprise, they are
Warning … tech talk ahead. The saga continues … No need to repeat the messages regarding Google, Picasa etc. Earlier this month the slide show system stopped. Not wholly surprising, I’m not really sure what
My last post dealt with the comment feature, you may send me a private message using the Contact the Site Administrator button at the top of every page. You may remember a more extensive system
You will notice that most blog posts have a comment section at the bottom of the text and this is something new. Allowing comments on a blog can be dicey proposition. Open comments actually attract
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