Embed Google Voice Messages
A handy new feature of Google Voice: if I get a voicemail message there’s now the option to embed it in a web page. Like this 3-second voicemail, origin unknown, that I got this morning: The message...
View ArticleEast by Condor
I’ve just pulled the trigger on what promises to be a fun multi-city obstacle course through Europe for July. I call it the “visit almost everyone I know on that side of the ocean in 24 days” trip. The...
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How much of PEI's electricity is coming from the wind (right now)?
Since I started experimenting with visualizing Prince Edward Island energy information over a year ago, one of the most important pieces missing from the data puzzle has been Island’s “load” — what the...
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Setting Patrícia Right
Some time ago I came across a letterpress hack from the 1890s: Today I had cause to consider setting the Portuguese name Patrícia in metal type (note carefully: that’s a lower-case “i” with an acute...
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Last Day of Grade 5
Oliver’s first day of Grade One, back in 2007: Oliver’s first day of school back in the fall of 2011: This morning, 8 months later, on the last day of Grade 5: Add a Comment
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96.47%
Throughout the day yesterday I was glued to my phone reloading the “how much of Prince Edward Island’s electricity is coming from the wind?” gauge as the percentage grew from 0% the day before to...
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Stones and Fishes
Our second floor perch here in the Reinventorium on the corner of Queen and Richmond in Charlottetown gives us a great view of the old Dominion Building across the street as it springs back to life as...
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Why I really don't need a car...
Here’s a map of the last 7 days of my Google Latitude history, wherein my current location is grabbed by my mobile phone every 30 minutes and squirreled away by Google: In an entire week I have not...
View Article(Rumour Has It) You're Somebody That I Used To Know
As proof that anything you can dream the Internet will make for you: last night on our after-supper walk, Oliver and I came up with the idea of a mashup of Adele’s “Rumour Has It” and Goyte’s “You’re...
View ArticleWhen I Grow Up I Want to be Nora Ephron
Tom Hanks on the recently-departed Nora Ephron: For a wrap gift, she would send you a note saying something like, “A man is going to come to your house to plant an orange tree — or apple or pomegranate...
View ArticleOff I Go
I’m off in a few minutes for the start of my Grand European Tour. A tour that starts, somewhat ignominiously, with a 4 hour drive to the Halifax airport. By the time most of you get up tomorrow morning...
View ArticleWhy do German institutions seem to trust me more than I expect?
I’ve just left the offices of The Gutenberg Society, a 101-year-old organization with a mission “to promote research into the history of printing and of the book, as well as to give moral and financial...
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Printing with Gutenberg in Mainz
I’m in Mainz, Germany to spend time at the Gutenberg Museum. Yesterday I visited the excellent library at the museum, and this morning, at the very last minute, I made arrangements to spend some time...
View ArticleHallo Oliver!
Send an SMS to +49 152 369 74123 and your text goes up in lights at The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. It’s part of the Moving Types special exhibition. So here’s a message for Oliver. Or, indeed, for all...
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Eight Photos from Düsseldorf
My first really nice-looking Polaroid photo taken on one of Pedro’s amazing collection of cameras, with film from The Impossible Project: Pedro and said camera: Kissing lovers atop a signpost near the...
View ArticleIan Petrie on Supply Management
As we were speeding along the highway from Düsseldorf to Enschede last night my friend Elmine asked me what the Canadian view of the situation in Europe is, and this led to a conversation about supply...
View ArticleOn to Enschede
To create this post I had to create a new tag for the blog, The Netherlands, as it’s my first time in the country. And, apparently, my first time expressing anything about the country at all in public....
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Making Type on a Laser Cutter
My friend Elmine graciously took me on a visit to the Fablab in Enschede yesterday — my first visit to a bona fide Fablab — and, to my surprise and delight, she asked “so, shall we make something.”...
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Mint Tea from Mint
While I was in Enschede I was twice given mint tea made from, well, mint. It was a nice surprise. To make it you put mint in hot water, wait, and drink. Perhaps not novel to those more well-travelled...
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