Since some friends have asked about how I host my website, I thought I'd write a short little guide. As I wrote in a previous post, I recently migrated hosting services. Here's a crash course on how websites work: 1. A computer somewhere, a 'server', is linked to the internet...
About a month ago, I made an impulsive decision to learn Python by writing a script to visualize how I surf the web on each day of the week. This is the result: With just a few lines of code, this script will look for an OS X/macOS user's...
I arrived in the early hours of Saturday, April 30 by plane from Copenhagen to Stockholm Skavsta (NYO) airport. It turns out that this budget airport is actually over an hour away from the city! If you are going to travel between these two cities, I would recommend taking the...
It's been over a month since I arrived in Leeds now. Given how behind I am in my travel blog, I thought I would skip ahead a bit and talk about why I travelled to Europe and why I'm actually here! I am spending my summer at the Centre for...
Off-campus access to papers (University of Alberta) Sometimes, we need to access academic journals when we are not on University of Alberta campus. Though I thought that a VPN (virtual private network) would simulate me being on campus, we actually need to use special proxies. Save these bookmarks to use...
I'm finally back on here. It's been a long month of... a lot of things. I'll save that for another post though. The important thing is that I'm alive and really well. If you're not following me on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, you're missing out! I've been given history-focused tours...
I've officially hit the road (or rather, skies). Today marks day 4 of the journey. So far, I spent a day in in Reykjavik, Iceland, a half day in Copenhagen, Denmark, and two in Stockholm, Sweden. Although all of these countries are very fluent in English, I've had some trouble...
Of course, it's all behind the scenes! Though the University of Alberta offers hosting services to its members, they unfortunately restrict this to "static" pages. This means that to edit my site, I have to literally edit the HTML and CSS code that governs it. This method is crude and...
Mount Overlord (above) and its minions can be intimidating - it looks like a giant granite hand reaching for the sky. Luckily, my landing was an easy one. I was extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to go into the park with Comedian/Veteran Parks Interpreter Billy, the friendly...
TL;DR: The ice has melted, I've visited the amazing Auyuittuq National Park, had a great time at a birthday party, Nunavut Day celebrations, among other summer festivities. First of all, I apologize for the time since my last post. Secondly, I must warn you that this post will be...
