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No Poppy Emoji
Oliver is on top of the situation:It does seem like a shocking omission. EmojiPoppyRemembrance Day
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The one where I try to explain mailto: links to Martin
I sent my friend Martin an email wherein I tried to explain how to include a mailto: link in his blog posts to make them easier to share. My overly-technical email failed at its task, and Martin asked...
View ArticleKärlek & Anarki
I love the Swedish sitcom Kärlek & Anarki, Love & Anarchy on English Netflix, something fierce.I have not laughed out loud at my television so much for a long, long time.Addendum: things turn...
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Non La Vegetarian Cafe
Non la is the name for a traditional Vietnamese conical hat; it’s also the name of a new vegetarian café on University Avenue (bringing the number of Vietnamese restaurants in Charlottetown to nine;...
View ArticleArt Houses: Becky Bradbeer
Friend of the blog, and friend of the Island, Nell Bang-Jensen is one of the creative forces behind Philadelphia’s Theatre Horizon, a theatre that is making the best of coronatimes by launching myriad...
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Cast Iron
Catherine was clearly the liaison to pioneer days in our household; had the end times arrived before she died, it would have been her out in the yard keeping the cooking fire burning and tending the...
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Oliver’s New Eyeglasses
Oliver picked up new eyeglasses this afternoon, the first new pair since his stylish orange and blue ones, now retired, from spring 2017. We returned to Matheson Eyewear, and received customary good...
View ArticleSongs that reference other songs
Not samples. Not covers. Somewhere in between. Beguiling Eyes from Stephen Fearing references Both Sides Now from Joni Mitchell. Save Us from Lennon Stella references I Love You Always Forever from...
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Micro-pottering
When rearranging a drawer is restful: the magic of ‘pottering’:Micro-pottering is defined as “those moments in the day when you do something that is not strictly necessary but gives you a short...
View ArticleBaba ghanoush
As the secrets of cooking for the household reveal themselves to me, the next step in my questing was baba ghanoush.I’d imagined all sorts of alchemy would be required; turns out to be as simple as:Cut...
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Remembering My Dad
My father died a year ago today, marking the start of difficult season of loss and grieving that lasted, two months to the day, to Catherine’s death this January, and beyond.It has been hard going, by...
View ArticleMac Script to Update Photos Dates to match EXIF
Because of various excavations of photos from platform to platform to platform (Flickr, OVI, Google Photos, iPhoto) over the years, now that I’ve settled on Apple’s ecosystem to maintain my photos,...
View Article“Why Virtual Offices Suck”
I pointed to this 19 years ago; it’s since disappeared from its home place, but the Wayback Machine kept a copy.I have been working remotely from my clients since 1995, and, on balance, it suits me....
View ArticleTo Do List Claustrophobia
Remember time claustrophobia?I have a new claustrophobia to add to the canon: the weight of the mostly undocumented, and thus theoretically endless, list of tasks to be completed around the house. Not...
View ArticleEnough is Enough
Enough is Enough by Karine Polwart, Oi Musica & The Soundhouse Choir:This piece of music has been composed with the express purpose of inviting choirs, street bands and community groups to learn...
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Walking Zoom
I had a meeting, on Zoom, of the Island Studies Press Publications Committee this morning. I wasn’t looking forward to it: the meeting itself wasn’t the reason—collegial company and interesting...
View ArticleA List of the Ways Things Have Disappeared
This is a list, which I’ll add to as I encounter new things, of ways in which content on this blog has disappeared over the years.Share on OVI: As documented here, for a time in 2008 I embedded photos...
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Share with Catherine? Or, Apple Photos needs a "they died" mode...
Apple’s Photos apps, across iOS and Mac, have matured very nicely since the days of iPhoto. One of the things they do remarkably well is face recognition; because of this, I have a huge collection of...
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