"Facebook isn't a mind-control ray"
Cory Doctorow writing about Facebook in 2018:Facebook isn’t a mind-control ray. It’s a tool for finding people who possess uncommon, hard-to-locate traits, whether that’s “person thinking of buying a...
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Google Maps Warning: "Want to go" and "Starred places" are not the same
In Google Maps you can click on any point of interest on the map to see details and, optionally, you can click “Save” to save the point for later reference.When you click “Save” you’re presented with a...
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Celebrating Bang7 at Richard's
I first met Jeff Eagar when the PEI Home and School Federation hired him to shoot and edit a short film about the Island’s universal provincial school food program.Tonight, as I was waiting to pick up...
View ArticleClark Eats at Hojo's
Clark reports on the experience of his family eating at Hojo’s Japanese Cuisine, a new restaurant “in the old Pat & Willys.”As is the case with most restaurants in Charlottetown, the cost was about...
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Some encouraging discussion about cycling during Question Period in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, prompted by a question from Steve Howard, Green Party Shadow Critic for Transportation,...
View ArticleIf I'm 84
I met this morning with Shayne Connolly, my personable life insurance broker. While reviewing our coverage he scrolled by the section of the PDF that had my actuarial age at death as 84.It wasn’t so...
View Article"I don't like your fish"
The Plastic Bag Reduction Act comes into force here on PEI next week.My favourite part of the legislation—other than the “no more plastic bags” part—is that there’s an exemption to allow plastic bags...
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Using FreshRSS to "Like" blog posts via Webmention
This is a post about gluing some things together, and about the IndieWeb. It started, however, with a photo of a child on a bicycle.I liked that photo, and I wanted to express that somehow in a public...
View ArticleA conversation that could only happen in 2019...
Me: Oliver, do you have your Spotify playlist ready for tonight?Oliver: No. I’m watching Beto O’Rourke.Me: Okay.
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How to mount an Android phone on a Mac using SSHFS
Because I was raised in an era when we were willing to conceive of mobile devices as servers as much as clients, it’s always bothered me that the ability to mount an Android phone’s storage on a...
View Article"How To Fuck Up An Airport"
Back in 2012 I booked a flight to Berlin that was scheduled to land at the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport. Before I flew, however, I received a message from the airline telling me that the new...
View Article"The more efficient your house, the lower the interest"
Following a link on Frank’s blog, I learned about an innovative mortgage product from the Dutch Triodos Bank, the sustainable mortgage:With the Triodos Mortgage you get a discount on the interest when...
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Tasker + Termux = Android + Mac
Thanks to a helpful post by William Denton, I remembered the Android utility Tasker, and realized that I could use it to automate the gluing together of my Android phone and my Mac.Here’s what I...
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Mercantile Notes from All Over
If you’re at Receiver Coffee on Victoria Row this summer, and Joel is behind the bar, order up “The Joel” for a delightful iced summer drink.Speaking of Receiver: they’re about to open a third...
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John Andrew for District 9
I just made a donation to John Andrew’s Green campaign for the deferred election in District 9.Everything I’ve learned about John over the past month has shown him to be a thoughtful, intelligent,...
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Where is 1Password made?
I was updating 1Password on my Mac this morning and took the occasion to look at the “About 1Password” dialog:I was intrigued by that long list of places: it seemed to suggest that 1Password is...
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Vestigial Sign
Oliver and I have been experimenting with new and interesting ways of getting from Stars for Life back home: today’s experiment involved walking down Beach Grove Road, across North River Road to the...
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15ºC and Cloudy
It’s 15ºC and cloudy here in Charlottetown today, which, to my taste, is about as good as it gets weather-wise, especially if you want to do things outside. And, looking at the current temperature map...
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"They have such nice accents!"
Tourist season has begun in earnest and with it comes the bane of all pedestrian Charlottetowners, the four-abreast sidewalk-taker-uppers. Here’s an attempt to illustrate one small slice of this today,...
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Sneak peak of a two-colour job I just finished printing. I printed the black yesterday, the grey today. And found–as I did the first time I printed grey–that the recipe for grey is “white plus half of...
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