Prince Edward Island Schools Map
I had a request from the Executive Director of the PEI Home and School Federation earlier this week for a map of schools on Prince Edward Island. The Federation is putting together an “info kit” for...
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All You Can Eat PEI GIS Data
The Province of Prince Edward Island has a large collection of “free” GIS data on its website (that’s “free” as in “you can use it if you agree to our crazy license terms” not free as in “go forth and...
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Prince Edward Island Parishes
If you’re a geonerd like me, finding a whole new level of geography somewhere is like discovering gold. When I used the parishes of Prince Edward Island as an example of the map layers available from...
View ArticleEve Goldberg on Prince Edward Island
Eve Goldberg, who falls into my “favourite people who I haven’t seen face to face in 25 years” category of friends, sent me an email this morning. I met Eve in high school in Toronto where we were both...
View ArticleMy Dinner with Evan
A couple of days ago I got an email from Stephan MacLeod, one of our Zap Your PRAM Fellows, inviting me to dinner with his boss, Evan Jones. In general I’m not the kind of guy who people invite out to...
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Wayzgoose in Kentville this Weekend
Hard to believe it’s been a year since the last Wayzgoose at Gaspereau Press in Kentville, Nova Scotia, but it’s coming up again this weekend. Last year Erin Bateman and I went, making a Herculean trip...
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Next Stop, Clyde River
Today was moving day for the Golding Jobber letterpress that’s coming into town from Campbell’s Printing in Tryon. The goal for today was to get the press – in all its giganticness – from Tryon into a...
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Outage
There was a 3-hour interruption in Eastlink Internet service this evening that affected service here to Reinvented HQ. So this site was offline, as was our email and telephone. Things seem to be...
View Article(Still) Looking for Space in Downtown Charlottetown
Remember how I was looking for a space to house and operate my newly-acquired letterpress? Well, I’m still looking. It turns out that Charlottetown, at least very-broadly-defined “downtown”...
View ArticleThe Hazards of Google Translate
I was speaking with someone last week who expressed surprise that Google Translate had done a less-than-optimal job at translating a passage of text from English to French. I’ve spent more than my fair...
View ArticleCharlottetown Building Permit Approvals RSS Redux
Five years ago I hacked together a little system to scrape data about City of Charlottetown Building Permit Approvals from the City’s website. But when the City updated its website, the system broke...
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Preventing the Carnage of Command+Left Arrow in Firefox
Many awesome blog posts have been lost before they were even published here because Firefox, by default, binds Command+Left Arrow to Back. Everywhere else on my Mac this key combination binds to “go to...
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Preventing the Carnage of Command+Left Arrow in Firefox
Many awesome blog posts have been lost before they were even published here because Firefox, by default, binds Command+Left Arrow to Back. Everywhere else on my Mac this key combination binds to “go to...
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Making a Charlottetown Building Permits Map
Following from yesterday’s resusitation of the Charlottetown Building Permits RSS feed, I decided that it was finally time to get around to seeing if there was enough data locked inside the City’s PDF...
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Making a Charlottetown Building Permits Map
Following from yesterday’s resusitation of the Charlottetown Building Permits RSS feed, I decided that it was finally time to get around to seeing if there was enough data locked inside the City’s PDF...
View ArticleSupreme Court of PEI Courses Sell Out in Four Hours
A few weeks ago the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island announced that it would be holding courses for the public on court-related matters. Registration was to be limited to 50 people, and would...
View ArticleSupreme Court of PEI Courses Sell Out in Four Hours
A few weeks ago the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island announced that it would be holding courses for the public on court-related matters. Registration was to be limited to 50 people, and would...
View ArticleWalking across Iceland
Klara Harden walked across Iceland and returned to make a short film about her trek. It’s a nicely made film, and considerably more compelling than your average “towering mountains and surging streams”...
View ArticleWalking across Iceland
Klara Harden walked across Iceland and returned to make a short film about her trek. It’s a nicely made film, and considerably more compelling than your average “towering mountains and surging streams”...
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Magic Eyeglass Defogulant
I have mused in frustration several times over recent years, usually around this time of year, about my eyeglasses fogging up when I come in from the cold. This is usually met by either stony silence...
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