PEI Electric Vehicle Association Meeting at Maritime Electric
I’ve been going to meetings of the PEI Electric Vehicle Association since the spring, and always find them interesting. The PEIEVA is an informal mix of EV owners, EV-aspirants, and the EV-curious, and...
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A Reminder: You Can Subscribe to this Blog by Email
If you’d rather consume this blog by email, a reminder that you can sign up for a daily digest of posts.The digest gets sent daily at 6:00 a.m. (a shift forward at the suggestion of my friend Ray, my...
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MOTHERLOAD Screening in Charlottetown on January 12, 2020
I was in Peterborough, New Hampshire in September and, as is my habit, I checked out the community notice board that’s located between Toadstool Books and Twelve Pine.Peterborough is an active,...
View ArticleTalking to PROBUS about Blogging
I had a lovely time this morning talking to a local chapter of the PROBUS social club. Whereas I’m usually call to present on matters technical or policy, this morning I was given the chance to speak...
View ArticleParish Activity Coordinator
St. Paul’s Anglican Church has created a new position of Parish Activity Coordinator; Archdeacon John Clarke described the genesis of this position in this blog post, and you can read the full job...
View ArticleLeif Vollebekk
Laurie Brown interviews Leif Vollebekk for Pondercast.Like she says, “There is nothing better than discovering a new artist you love.”Leif VollebekkMusicPondercast
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Visualizing Election Results: Geography vs. Population
The BBC News website presented two different visualizations of yesterday’s UK elections.The first is strictly geographical, with the land area of each constituency accurately represented on the map:By...
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Charlottetown's First Public Fast EV Charger
The first public high-speed electric vehicle charger in Charlottetown is on the brink of opening. You’ll find it in the corner of the Canadian Tire parking lot.While it can take up to 24 hours to...
View ArticleWhere is Matthew going, and why is he going there? (Or, Looking at UPEI...
The University of Prince Edward Island publishes reports of employee travel expenses every month. Unfortunately these reports are published as PDF files, making any sort of data analysis...
View Article2020 Charlottetown Levee Schedule
This is the 2020 levee schedule for New Years Day, January 1, 2020 for Charlottetown and Prince Edward Island.This is the 15th year I’ve been collating and confirming this information. If you’re new to...
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Vanilla Scented Draft Dodging
Beware “vanilla scented” draft-stopping caulking compound. Unless you like your vanilla scent to smell like an amalgam of nuclear waste and turpentine.MarketingSmellCaulking
View ArticleAlpha Charlie Limited
You watch one Alexa Chung video on YouTube and then YouTube is, like, “how about another Alexa Chung video!” And suddenly all you’re watching is Alexa Chung videos. Like The Making of the Met Gala 2019...
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The Delighted Printer
My friend Chantal, a fellow fountain pen aficionado who I met through Pen Night, is a talented artist and illustrator; after seeing my letterpress in action in July, she set out to see if she could...
View ArticlePotato Chips from Heaven
To the anonymous person who, perhaps knowing what a trying week this has been for our family, left a bag of potato chips with french onion dip in our front vestibule today: you are the greatest—the...
View Article"What's your wifi password again?"
From Matt Haughey, a guide to creating a QR code for your wifi network that visitors with mobile phones can scan to get immediate access without needing to enter your fiddly password.He points to...
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The Importance of Being in the Same Room
At the November meeting of the PEI Electric Vehicle Association there was considerable discussion about matters related to electricity and our provincial utility, Maritime Electric.While it’s always...
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3D Printing a Hole Punch Jig
I have a 3/8 inch hole punch; it looks like this:I want to use the punch to make holes in business cards; there are two problems with this setup as-is:There’s no way to ensure that the holes I punch...
View Article"It turns out that many things I thought about autism were twaddle..."
My autistic son made me see the season anew – a Christmas tree is not a fish!:I remember on the way home from nursery one December day, my son pointed at a small plastic fish in a charity-shop window....
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Christmas Blur
It’s been a blur of a couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, and this photo I took of our Christmas supper table last night is a good visual metaphor for it all:Catherine came home from a week’s...
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