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Letterpress Part MIA
Despite the helpful efforts of CBC’s Island Morning, the local Newcap stations, Facebook and this here blog, the important part of my Golding Jobber Letterpress that, it seems, fell off the truck in...
View ArticleFree Education Act of 1852
From Ian Robertson’s Reform, Literacy, and the Lease: The Prince Edward Island Free Education Act of 1852, which discusses the context of the coming of free public education to the Island (emphasis...
View ArticleTo stimulate the inhabitants to that increased solicitude...
Thanks to the efforts of Canadiana.org, the Journal of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1852 has been digitized and is freely available online. The Free Education Act was passed that...
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Alfred + Government Directory
Here’s a quick solution to finding Government of Prince Edward Island telephone numbers using the excellent Alfred app for the Mac. Under Preferences | Custom Searches, enter the following: Search URL:...
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“We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited”
I was talking with a friend the other day who mentioned that he was surprised that he was seeing advertisements from a particular company on completely unrelated websites. The company in question was...
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“We infer your age and gender based on the websites you’ve visited”
I was talking with a friend the other day who mentioned that he was surprised that he was seeing advertisements from a particular company on completely unrelated websites. The company in question was...
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$3,242.94
The first car I ever owned was a blue 1978 Datsun 510. It was about 9 years old when I bought it, and it was the first in a long line of 8 or 9 year old cars that I owned over the course of 15 years:...
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Prince Edward Island's Printing Heritage
I was given a tour of the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation’s “Artefactory” storage facility in the West Royalty Industrial Park this morning: Linda Berko, Boyde Beck and Jason...
View ArticleOliver and Peter Walk to School
Map Tales is a lovely little tool for telling stories with words, maps and photos. Jeremy Keith tells the story of its creation; here’s a little story about our daily walk to school each day up Prince...
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Parts and Recreation
A big day of developments in the letterpress world. Or at least in my small slice of it. First thing this morning I headed out to the edge of Charlottetown to Precision Mechanical to pick up the...
View ArticleThe Golding Jobber No. 8: It's Alive!
After two months of struggle — finding it a home, finding a way of transporting it, finding a way to replace the part the fell off the truck during transport — my Golding Jobber No. 8 letterpress...
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Hire Cousin Sergey!
As I’ve mentioned several times over the last couple of months, my “Cousin Sergey” — Sergey Datsenko, married to my third-cousin — has been here in Prince Edward Island studying English since the...
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First Print on Golding Jobber
When I first acquired my tiny Adana Eight Five letterpress last year I was a little obsessed with tuning up and cleaning the press to “perfect” condition before actually getting down to printing. Then...
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Did you mean “Treadmill”?
This summer in Berlin I had the pleasure of meeting the founders of Readmill. I’d been a beta-user of the service for a few months and, truth be told, didn’t know they were a Berlin company until Eric...
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Readmill as Groupware Infrastructure
Did you know that recent versions of Apple’s Pages word processing application can export to the ePub format? Presumably this was a step taken by Apple to enhance the utility of its own iBooks...
View Article$784 million
I was interested to learn this morning from CBC News that the combined assets of the O’Leary and Evangeline credit unions, which voted last night to merge, will be $100 million. This got me wondering...
View ArticleDon't Let Us Get Old
I am old. As far as I can remember, I didn’t used to be old. Back in the late 1980s in Ontario I remember being young. I had a good group of friends, mostly around my own age. We played charades and...
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Christmas Card
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, so I decided that it was time to dust off the Mail Me Something list and set up something for the holidays. I set some type tonight, and I hope to start...
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Beth Cudmore
Our friend Beth Cudmore died last week. Our lives overlapped with Beth’s in innumerable ways over the last 20 years: I used to shop at Henderson & Cudmore, the Charlottetown haberdasher run by the...
View Article2012 Charlottetown Area Levee Schedule
Here’s is the first draft of the 2012 levee schedule for January 1, 2012 for Charlottetown and area. If you’re new to all of this and want to give it a try, read How to Levee. And if I’ve missed...
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