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Things To Do While Staying at the DoubleTree in Dartmouth
Hilton operates 13 hotel brands, helpfully thumbnailed here. The DoubleTree brand is listed there in the “upscale” category, and is described by Hilton like this:Warm. Comfortable. Friendly. Providing...
View ArticleCostas Rides Again
On Strawberry Hill, in the heart of the opposite of Halifax’s café district, publisher Nimbus has opened a bookshop & café called Open Book. They sell books. And coffee. And they brew up an...
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Green Energy
With 105% of PEI’s electricity needs being met by wind energy this morning, it’s an auspicious day for newly-minted Green MLAs to take their seats in the Legislative Assembly for the Speech from the...
View ArticleCrows vs. Dog
crows_vs_dog_1.mp3There was a baby crow born in our back yard last week that’s been learning to fly this week. Its parents have been understandably protective, and so every time Ethan the Dog goes...
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The Bicycle Shops of Halifax
As I dropped various Europeans friends off in various places over the past two days, the minivan I’d rented for the journey became less and less appropriate for the size of our party, culminating me...
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EurekaTec in Lower Sackville
As The Source (née Radio Shack) is in the death throes of its transition from a hobbiest-focused electronics retailer to a cell phone shop, I was happy to find EurekaTec, tucked away in a strip mall in...
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John Muir at Zap Your PRAM
I’d forgotten that my late friend John Muir came to Prince Edward Island in 2003 to participate on our Zap Your PRAM conference: appropriately enough, we recorded the audio of John’s session.Zap Your...
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Here's the List of Blogs I Read...
Here’s the list of blogs I read.You can see that list just by clicking on that link, and it will look something like this in your browser:But you can also save that file, and load it into your RSS...
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Building a Bicycling Connection between the Confederation Trail and North...
As anyone who’s driven or cycled in Charlottetown knows, we are blessed with north-south thoroughfares and have a scarcity of east-west ones.This scarcity is even more apparent for cyclists wishing to...
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Cycling in Canada (when you are Dutch)
Elmine writes about her experiences cycling (and watching we Canadians cycle) here in Canada. In part:All in all my conclusion is that riding a bike safely in various parts in Canada is still a dream....
View Article"Name them over and over and over again."
In 2017 Nell Bang-Jensen wrote down a set of guiding principles for her work, which includes:Know everyone’s name. Name them over and over and over again.This called to mind my Morgan/Joel Strategy...
View ArticleBlogs vs. Newsletters
At Crafting {:} a Life we spoke often of blogging. And when one speaks of blogging these days, one must speak of email newsletters.Here’s where I’ve arrived, after thinking about this for the last...
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The Calm Before the Prom
Oliver, on the lawn of St. Dunstan’s Basilica, before the Colonel Gray prom last night.Oliver | Colonel Gray High School
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"We are unable to sell Microsoft products"
The delicious irony of Best Buy, a computer store that presumably uses Microsoft products, unable to sell Microsoft products because of “system software updates.”Best Buy | Microsoft | Irony
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One of these cars is not like the others...
Never have I have been so sheepish as when I got in my “dinosaur-powered” VW Jetta, after tonight’s PEI Electric Vehicle Association meeting, and rumbled off. While everyone else was alighting their...
View ArticleSeparating from your soul...
It is high school graduation day for Oliver, and we went up to the field house at the University of PEI this morning for a dry run of his walk across the stage. It was overcast when we entered; it was...
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Oliver Graduates from High School
I’m fairly certain that I went to my high school graduation, but I’m sure.I had a complex end to high school: although I spent the first four years of the (then-five-year, including grade 13)...
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Red Shoelaces
Colourful men’s shoes don’t come along everyday. And so when I needed to replace the leaky shoes this afternoon, these jumped off the shelf at me.Shoes | Colour | Red
View ArticleMy Mobile Phone's Senses
I’ve been experimenting with Termux on my Moto G7 Play. While my route in was looking for a terminal emulator for the phone, I’ve since discovered that Termux us much, much more than that.For example,...
View ArticleTourism as Cultural Strip-Mining
Maciej Cegłowski writing in 2016 from Antarctica:The usual dynamic between locals and tourists is backwards in the Ross Sea. Everywhere else in the world, tourists are the ones ruining everything,...
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