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Vertical Panorama
The Creative Studio app from Nokia for Windows Phone has an elegant panorama-taking function that I’ve been experimenting with. One of the problems with panoramas on the web is that they’re hard to...
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Tympan
The tympan — the top layer of oiled paper on top of which paper to be printed is laid on the letterpress — is a sort of archaeological record of the printing process. Here’s the tympan for the Richmond...
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Video from the musical swings in Montreal. Music was broken the day we visited, so we had to be content simply with the swings. But it was still pretty neat. I can’t watch this without getting dizzy....
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I shot this short video a few weeks ago in Montreal. It’s a detail from Peter Flemming’s Instrumentation installation, which was part of the International Digital Arts Biennial. I usually find the...
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Korean Restaurant Call Buttons
One of the novel things to show up in Charlottetown restaurants in the last few years, courtesy of the sudden influx of places operated by Korean newcomers, is the table-side call button. Here’s what...
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“The Premier says we have to innovate through thrift and creativity...”
Earlier this spring, along with my colleagues from the PEI Home and School Federation and with the PEI Teachers Federation, I had the pleasure of meeting with Premier Robert Ghiz to express our...
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"The Premier says we have to innovate through thrift and creativity..."
Earlier this spring, along with my colleagues from the PEI Home and School Federation and with the PEI Teachers Federation, I had the pleasure of meeting with Premier Robert Ghiz to express our...
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A Frank Abagnale Kind of Day
I have been putting the pieces together for a new Casa Mia Café gift certificate for a couple of months. Not quite finished yet, but the paper (from Papeterie Saint-Armand) is ready, and I’m...
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Red Envelope
I didn’t plan for this, but I really like the way it worked out: “Casa Mia Café” is framed perfectly by the envelope when you open the flap. A taste of things to come, so to speak. The envelope, like...
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Bright Red Posters
No matter your opinion on plans to re-route the Trans-Canada Highway out in Bonshaw, you have to admire these posters, which have gone up all over downtown Charlottetown over the past few days. Simple,...
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Tai Chi Men
One of my favourite places to eat — indeed one of my favourite places on earth — is the back garden at Tai Chi Gardens here in Charlottetown. Every time I visit there’s something new to see, and this...
View ArticleA tiny website with a single purpose...
Is there a cruise ship in Charlottetown today? Data scraped out of here with this handy Chrome extension, cleaned up in Numbers and imported into a MySQL table around which a PHP app was wrapped....
View ArticleCruise Ship Tweaks
I’ve become a tiny bit obsessed with this tiny website, and so have added a few new features: Is there a cruise ship in Charlottetown today? was the original page. 2012 Cruise Ship Calendar is a...
View ArticleWhere the Ships Are: AIS and MMSI
You never know where the tangents will take you. My cruise ship schedule experiments began when a newspaper ad led me to a not-helpful-enough web page and, in learning about cruise ships and how and...
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Oh, right, PEI really is beautiful...
We had our annual meeting of the L.M. Montgomery Land Trust last night out in Sea View, and on the way out I snapped this photo of French River from the lookout. Add a Comment
View ArticleDowntown Schools Family Fun Day
You may recall a post here back in January about a project to bring the home and schools of the five downtown Charlottetown elementary schools together to organize a joint activity together. I’m happy...
View ArticleFake Letterpress
I never imagined that I would be a “purist” in any discipline. But apparently, as regards letterpress printing, I am one. There are two schools of letterpress printing. In the “old school,” where I am...
View Article13 Years
I note, only because it’s the generally accepted practice of old tyme bloggers, that yesterday was the 13th anniversary of this blog, or at least the ancestor of this blog. Here’s post number one, May...
View ArticleHow much do PD Days cost?
The PEI Home and School Federation has three representatives on the School Calendar Committee, a committee that includes representation the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, the...
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