Rediscovering Decentralized Networks
Niti Bhan writes about African governments blocking access to parts of the Internet, Facebook among them:As civil society groups and others raise their voices in support for peoples disconnected the...
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1Password + TFA + Android
I’d missed this somehow: there’s now a setting in 1Password’s Android app under Filling labelled “Auto-copy one-time passwords” that does exactly that (just as the Mac version has done for a long...
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Getting Home From Stars for Life
When he finished high school in mid-June, Oliver transitioned to the day program at Stars for Life, an organization I believe in deeply, and from which he will derive great benefit.The primary...
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My 31 km Electric Bicycle Ride
I put the rented Evox City520 electric bicycle through its paces tonight, riding out of Charlottetown on the Confederation Trail to Charlottetown Airport, and then out the Brackley Path that runs...
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Kara and Nate Fly to New York
I found my way to the YouTube channel of Kara and Nate by way of their journey on the Trans-Siberian in 2017.Despite their increasing popularity, and thus their increasing “today’s episode is brought...
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One Last Electric Ride
I squeezed every last drop out of my electric bicycle rental this morning before returning it, heading over the bridge to Stratford, down to the shore, back to town, out for lunch, and then home. 21 km...
View Article"An Island moment"
A delightful Prince Edward Island story from Clark. Like he writes, “This could have happened no where else.”Clark MacLeod | Prince Edward Island
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Spotify is a Prison for Podcasts
I have been a happy customer of Spotify for several years now, after flirting back and forth with Apple Music, Google Play Music and the late Rdio for several years before that. We have a family...
View ArticleMidwifery Shouldn't Be "User Pay"
During Question Period in the PEI Legislative Assembly on Friday came this exchange between the Leader of the Opposition, Peter Bevan-Baker, and the Minister of Health and Wellness, Hon. James...
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The Altruistic Smart Grid. Or "how to charge your mobile phone only when...
At the last meeting of the PEI Electric Vehicle Association there was talk of how, at some point in the future, we’ll have a “smart grid” on Prince Edward Island, with electricity rates adjusted to...
View Article"Just remember to put your phone down sometimes"
About a decade ago, I went out to lunch with several friends in Berlin at La Bonne Franquette, a French restaurant near the Nokia office where they all worked.Beyond the good company and the good food,...
View ArticlePocket Casts Import and Export
Given what I wrote about Spotify being a prison for podcasts, it might be helpful to point out that Pocket Casts (acquired last year by NPR et al), my podcast player of choice, supports export and...
View ArticleExperiment Three: Bus, Bus
The third installment in the series.Today’s trip to and from Stars for Life was on the bus in both directions: I caught the 3:45 p.m. Route № 2 bus in front of the Polyclinic and rode out to the corner...
View Article"Representative McCormack does not own a car"
My friend Valerie pointed me to the Sustainable Transportation Vermont blog, and I’ve found it refreshingly grounded and practical. My favourite post so far as been Walking the Walk, about the...
View ArticleWanderlust
I’ve been watching my way through the BBC-Netflix co-production Wanderlust this week, a program that The Evening Standard called, accurately, a “meandering polyamory drama.”I’ve never had the...
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And the Jeeps returned to the earth whence they came...
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View ArticleDid Brad Trivers' kids just save the climate?
David Remnick interviewed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for The New Yorker Radio Hour, and asked her about what it was like being in Congress after a year in office:David Remnick: What shocked you the most…...
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The Universally Ignored Stop Sign at Maypoint and Beach Grove
Yesterday’s trip to pick up Oliver at Stars for Life followed much the same template as the day before: I took the bus out, we took the bus back.This method is proving to be quite workable: it’s much...
View ArticleCycling in Utrecht
Another excellent film about cycling and urban design from Street Films, Utrecht: Planning for People & Bikes, Not for Cars, dropped a couple of weeks ago.My favourite passage comes near the...
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