Edward Hasbrouck's Year in Travel
Edward Hasbrouck took a New Year’s Eve opportunity to publish a summary of his European travels this year. He writes, in part, about a very bicycle-friendly Best Western hotel in Bremen:A comfortable...
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Delicias Salted Capers
We picked up a bottle of Delicias Salted Capers yesterday during our weekly shop at Riverview Country Market: it was the sheer absurdity of the product that drew me to it, given that regular capers...
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Using Blogging to Update OpenStreetMap
Sometime last year I resolved that if I was going to link to a business, institution, or anything else with a geographic location from one of my blog posts, I’d link to OpenStreetMap, and I’d use the...
View ArticleEthical Government
In Building Ethical Organisations, Cerys Hearsey writes, in part:Here are some of the most important steps that leaders and employees can take to ensure that grass-roots ethics and organisation-wide...
View ArticleAll Means All
In a December blog posts where he discussed the 2019 quarter-millennial of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Archdeacon John Clarke wrote about the parish’s tagline for the year, A Caring Community for...
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Printing a Fountain Pen
As an experiment I decided to see if I could print a fountain pen on my 3D printerI found this Open 3D Fountain pen model on Thingiverse, and I’ve been printing it this week (each of the three sections...
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IslandSide at 30
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first issue of IslandSide, the venerable magazine founded by Jim Brown in 1989.Here’s the Editor’s Note from that issue:This is the first issue of...
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Faster Access to CBC Prince Edward Island News Using Node-RED
Sometime last year the CBC Prince Edward Island News website got updated, and in the process, it became effectively useless on my mobile phone.While nominally “mobile friendly,” whatever framework the...
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23 Notebooks Ready for Binding
It’s only once you enter the hand-cut, hand-printed, hand-folded, hand-perforated, hand-bound notebook manufacturing game that you realize why there aren’t more such notebooks in the marketplace: all...
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Land and Sea is Still on the Air!
Back in the day when television was still television and we all gathered around the hearth to watch CBC (the only channel we picked up on the rabbit ears), CBC’s Land and Sea was a perennial favourite...
View ArticleEuan Semple on (Loss of ) Control
Euan Semple writes, in Fear, and loss of control, in part:Life keeps on happening, without our control. We are out of control. We don’t even control our own thoughts never mind the world around us....
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William Denton is selling copies of a limited edition of a book version of Listening to Art.I like his pricing:While I have supplies, copies are available at a special price: $20 Canadian for...
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3D Printing an Ink Vial Holder
As I related in October, my friend Nene turned me on to the world of Pen Chalet fountain pen ink samples, and starting from her lovely gift of a sample of Morning Star ink, I’ve acquired a small fleet...
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Marlene On the Wall
I finally found a Canadian source for good quality typewriter ribbons: Toronto Typewriters. I ordered a Big 3 Combo a couple of weeks ago, and it arrived yesterday.The “Big 3” are a black, a black/red,...
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Video Multitasking
Printing my ink vial holder last night on the 3D printer took a lot longer than I thought it was going to, and I had to leave the office for supper midway through the print.I didn’t want to leave the...
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Interlibrary Cooperation on Autism
From today’s Autism Society of PEI newsletter:The Autism Society of PEI and the PEI Public Library Service are happy to partner on a new collection sharing initiative. Islanders can now access the...
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Orange Stab
I’m eleven notebooks into the binding of the 23 Perforated Notes notebooks, and I think I’m finally getting a handle on the hand contortions needed to render a clean-looking result.Bookbinding | Orange...
View ArticleLost Sheep
From Archdeacon John Clarke’s blog, describing a church event that included farm animals:I didn’t get to see if for myself but, after the worship (when most of us were enjoying the potluck), as they...
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Collecting Whole Earth
Patrick Rhone:When passing by a used bookstore, there are certain things that I must buy if I see them. I simply can’t help myself, no matter the price. This is one of those things.“One of those...
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