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A Mac and iOS Shortcut to Search the PEI Library Catalogue
I’m forever looking for ways to make finding library books easier, and recently I found something that I use almost every day, a “shortcut” for iOS and macOS that let’s me easily search the PEI Public...
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Search my Blog
Eagle-eyed readers of this blog in its website version may have noticed a new element at the top, a search box:There’s almost always been a way to search this blog; for the longest time it was backed...
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Marriage Story
Just after the new year, our friend Betty suggested we come to the winter session of an acting class in Victoria that she’d been attending, a class taught by Becca Griffin.We procrastinated: a...
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I had to move some things around this week, so I skipped my regular workout yesterday, and worked out with Lisa this morning, with her coach Matt Cormier.The conditioning part of the workout was a 15...
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Yellow Book from Latvia
Arrived in today’s post from Latvia, a copy of Internet Phone Book:Has there ever been a publication more laser-targeted at my inclinations and eccentricities?
View ArticleWhat's the deal with Strathroy?
When I was a kid, my family subscribed to the Waterdown Review, the local weekly newspaper. Every week, I was an eager reader of the column from editor Ken Bosveld, a breezy mix of village news and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Meditation
There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure.I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having so...
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Toronto Life Rebrands
One of the magazines I remember being around my parents’ living room when I was a kid was Toronto Life. We lived about 90 minutes from Toronto, and because we were up high on the Niagara Escarpment,...
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Algorithmic Recommendations
A work in progress, an analog spin-off of this blog post from James A. Reeves.
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Migrating to Hetzner
In 2014, I stopped maintaining my own physical server—an actual computer that I actually owned, and could go and visit upstairs.At the time I wrote:At the same time as I made this switch, for the first...
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No New Yorker at Indigo
The magazine section at our local Indigo has been condensed over recent months: a substantial section of magazine racks has been removed, and replaced with puzzles and games. The area where general...
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Bots Are Eating My Blog for Lunch
Since I migrated this blog to a Hetzner server, I’ve been paying attention to the “Graphs” tab of the server dashboard to see how the capacity of the server matches the traffic I’m expecting it to...
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Reboot Changed My Life
Ton reminds me that it was 20 years ago this week, in June of 2005, that we were all at reboot7 in Copenhagen. That conference—and those that followed in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009—changed are changing...
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Right Now, Right Here
Spotted in my friend Shannon’s bathroom in Kingston earlier this week:Wendy Luella officiated at my friend Stephen’s mother Carol’s funeral.
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Art Space
Ten years ago I installed an Ikea Digniet wire in our dining room to provide a place to “hang my collection of ephemera.” When we got the dining room painted a few years ago, it got taken down, the...
View ArticleCanadian Postal Advice
Some helpful advice from the postmistress at the Charlottetown Post Office this morning. If you have standard stamps, which right now are $1.44 singly or $1.24 in books, these can be used like...
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Tiny Experiments in Hydration (and Blogging)
If Lisa and I had a formal relationship agreement, there would be a clause like this:3.1 Peter agrees to monitor the zeitgeist, and to supply Lisa with a consistent flow of interesting reading...
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