How to remove duplicate sent emails in Fastmail caused by K-9 Mail quirk
I use K-9 Mail on my Android phone as my email client. It’s ugly, inelegant, and quirky, but it works, and has all the functionality I need.One of its quirks is that if, under Account Settings >...
View Article90 Minutes on a Guitar
Singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing and luthier Linda Manzer, hosted by Tom Allen, spend 90 minutes talking about the guitar Manzer made for Fearing 30 years ago.
View ArticleThe Library Company of Philadelphia
Bookseller Dan pointed me to a documentary about facsimile printing presses, which, in turn, led me to learn of The Library Company of Philadelphia:The Library Company was founded in 1731 by Benjamin...
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My COVID-19 Operational Plan
Businesses on Prince Edward Island are required to have a “COVID-19 Operational Plan” and the province has provided a template to use for this:The various professional associations and organizations,...
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I Have Established Dominion Over the Cutlery Drawer
The interior organizer has been taken apart and re-glued, the more hated of the forks, spoons and knives banished.CutleryOrganizationKitchen
View ArticleChaste Polyamory Now Permitted
Friday’s update from the Chief Public Health Office, announcing a slight easing of the Prince Edward Island lockdown, makes allowances for polyamory, but with limits:You may extend your household unit...
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Oliver's Unconference
Oliver is organizing an unconference, in Zoom, for this Friday.Because we have all been confined to our homes for many weeks, the theme of the unconference, taking off from the theme of earlier...
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Harbourside
With most of the new apartment buildings that are going up in Charlottetown these days coming right out of the “Apartments, Boxy” pages of the Sears catalogue, it’s easy to forget that, in Harbourside,...
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The New Yorker Comes Back Home
In September my subscription to The New Yorker expired. I didn’t renew it.I’d been a subscriber for more than 25 years, and I felt that a lapsed subscription, due nothing more than a change in credit...
View ArticleCherish x Abolish
Publisher Black Ink’s free May Day book this year is Cherish x Abolish. You can download a free PDF, or receive a printed book for the cost of postage.BooksBlack Ink
View Article“Access your Inner Fonzie”
The Morning Message from Archdeacon John Clarke today uses the sitcoms of Gary Marshall as its starting point. In other words, it is as if targeted directly at me.
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"Don't shout. Don't whisper."
Rules for using the telephone from The Island Telephone Company. We need the equivalent for Zoom.
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What are the right Pedestrian Call Buttons for the Pandemic?
The City of Charlottetown is in the final stages of rebuilding the traffic signalling at two downtown intersections, Kent & Great George and Kent & Prince. The new infrastructure at both...
View ArticleIn Favour of Tourism
Henry Jamison dropped a new album today, Tourism:The songs are about the road but also about the effect my touring had on my relationship (which was…not good).The subject matter is clearly very...
View Article"This is another one we count on different time signatures..."
Karine Polwart, Inge Thomson, and Steven Polwart listen to, and talk about, their 2018 album Laws of Motion together. It’s like DVD commentary, but for an album. Fascinating.“This is another one we...
View ArticlePeter Mansbridge
Cynthia interviews Peter Mansbridge, cementing her position as the foremost interview of people named Peter in the country.Cynthia KingPeter MansbridgeThe Belong Podcast
View ArticleIn Praise of Home
In Praise of Home from Rura:Steven wrote this tune reflecting on home as a feeling rather than a place; acknowledging the privilege of being connected to the people and places that define ‘home’ at a...
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Downtown Charlottetown from the Air in 2008
My “on this day” in Google Photos surfaced this 2008 photo I snapped while flying into Charlottetown Airport. Can you spot the things that have changed in the last 12 years?PhotoCharlottetown
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