Type(d) In the Open
Thanks to everyone who came out to Type In The Open on Saturday evening. Over the course of the 5 hours I had about 30 people come through the door, and about half a dozen of those tried a hand at...
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Roisin Photographs Letterpress
By far and away the youngest and most enthusiastic patron of my letterpress pursuits is 6-year-old Roisin. She visited Type in the Open on Saturday night with her mother, camera in hand, and spent 15...
View ArticleChanging Bogotá through mime, design, schools and libraries...
Bogotá Change is a fascinating film about the transmormation of the Columbian city of Bogotá that started in 1994. It’s well worth watching if you are a student of urban behaviour and the challenges of...
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I have a lot of friends whose businesses depend on the cruise ship part of Prince Edward Island tourism to survive: cruise ship visitors, which cluster around the “shoulder seasons” in spring and fall,...
View ArticleAn Outbreak of Good Service
Two notable instances of excellent customer service today. First, we decided it was time to get Oliver a laptop for use in school. He’s been successfully using the hand-me-down Windows laptops provided...
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Charlottetown Perspectives
This Town Is Small — them that brought us Art in the Open and my studio-mates in the basement of the Reinventorium — have a new project, called Charlottetown Perspectives that, depending on your point...
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The Wind Tweets
Cosm (née Pachube) is a really useful web service if you’re interesting in managing open data. It’s what I feed the energy load and generation data provided by the Province of PEI to; it’s useful for...
View ArticleCodecademy
I showed Oliver the Codecademy website a couple of months ago, and we spent a little time going through a couple of lessons, but the programming bug didn’t bite. This week, though, Catherine complained...
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The Magic Photocopiers at UPEI
We took a family trip out to Robertson Library at the University of PEI yesterday and spent a couple of hours using two very neat pieces of technology to do some scanning (if you are thinking “that is...
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New Charlottetown Airport Sign
Charlottetown Airport has recently gone through an expansion of the departures area, and this has involved, in part, a redesign of the departures entrance, complete with a new sign. The design work was...
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How to keep UPEI's Wireless from asking you to login every time you turn...
I’ve you’re using the Panthernet-Open wireless network at the University of PEI from an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you’ll be prompted to enter your username and password every time you go to use the...
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Five Years Later
Oliver started grade six today, his last year at Prince Street Elementary, where he started in grade one 5 years ago. His teacher is Ms. Parsons, who taught him music in earlier grades, so they are...
View ArticleTalk to your child's teacher!
School started today here in Prince Edward Island and you likely received a school calendar in your child’s backpack inviting you to “meet the staff” night some time later this month, and it may have...
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Work in Progress
I’m playing around with some designs for printing the second verse of The Island Hymn, in two faces, one 30 pt. and one 60 pt. It’s just a concept now; nothing locked in place or committed to paper....
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Emailing Tickets to Trac
We’ve been using Trac as a ticketing system to manage the work of our web team at Yankee Publishing for five years now — ticket #1, “Correct long-range weather banner,” was created November 7, 2007....
View ArticleLike Drinking Coffee in a Closet
My friends at Youngfolk & The Kettle Black on Water Street in Charlottetown have opened a new branch on Victoria Row in the space formerly occupied by Poffertjes.The new space is tiny and there’s...
View ArticleSending Money from Canada to Ukraine
I needed to send $1500 CAD from Canada to Ukraine, and so did some research over the weekend as to the various ways of doing so. Here’s what I found. Method Fee Result in USD Exchange Rate Effective...
View ArticleBay Bulls Fish
Actual conversation en route to school this morning:“I got an email from your teacher last night. She said you had a good day yesterday.”“She’s a Newfie.”“Oh, from Newwfoundland. From what...
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Sketches in Metal Type
Some experimenting, over the course of the last week, with a business card for Youngfolk & The Kettle Black. I’ve settled on the bottom-right as the design I’ll print (these are all rough proofs...
View Articlepnp.txt
I don’t have strong opinions about the propriety of the PNP program.I do, however, have strong opinions about what it means for a government to “release data.”The Province of PEI“complied” with a court...
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