Turning LEDs on and off with Python
I am one of those “never quite got the hang of electronics” kids. Sure, I built myself a crystal radio. Got that drugstore prescription printer to work with my TRS-80 Model I. And I’ve wired up my...
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Hacker in Residence
I began a new appointment today, as Hacker in Residence at Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island. Under the aegis of the university’s “visiting scholar” program, I’ll be a part-time...
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Canada's First Domain Name: Twenty-five Years of upei.ca
One of the unsung aspects of the University of Prince Edward Island is its pioneering involvement in the early Internet: under the leadership of Jim Hancock (Director of Computer Services from 1972 to...
View ArticleJim Hancock on Island Morning
Former Director of Computer Services at the University of PEI, Jim Hancock, appeared on Island Morning today to talk about the 25th anniversary of the upei.ca domain.Add a Comment
View ArticleResurrecting a Lost Website
In a somewhat irrational move, back in 2004 I migrated from using Flickr to share my photos to using an installation of the open source Gallery project. In theory this should have been a perfectly fine...
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A Rainy Day in Þingvellir
We tracker down an old digital camera, the one that Catherine tool to Iceland in the fall of 2008, and I found 338 photos on it that I thought had been lost. Among them is this one, taken on a...
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The Guardian HQ in 1904
Here’s an undated postcard from Charlottetown (from from here via here, originally from Doug Murray, Postal Historian), showing “Sunnyside,” along Grafton Street between Queen and University:And here’s...
View ArticleHacker Blogging Over There
Just in case you missed a point buried in the comments, I’m doing my Hacker in Residence blogging over at http://hack.ruk.ca/ (a server that, despite the domain, is hosted at UPEI and will shortly be...
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The 2012 Guardian Montage
Regular readers may recall a project I undertook last month to create a montage of covers of The Guardian newspaper from 1912 to mark the newspaper’s 125th anniversary. It only seemed appropriate that,...
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Oliver's Popular Word Search
Just over a year ago, in December of 2011, Oliver created a Christmas Word Search and I posted it here for all to see. A year later it proved very popular (relatively speaking) over the Christmas 2012...
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Catherine's Show at Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Catherine and I started off as neighbours on George Street in Peterborough. I remember clearly the first time I laid eyes on her: she was wearing clothes covered in paint. Over the months of that...
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Japanese Bookbinding
Earlier this month, by chance, I noticed an ad in The Buzz for a Japanese bookbinding course in Bonshaw this past weekend. I registered right away, as I’ve always been fascinated by bookbinding. After...
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23 when you only have 22
I borrowed the third volume of Anaïs Nin’s diaries, on interlibrary loan, from the public library; it covers the period 1939 to 1944 in New York City, a period where, in part, she and Gonzalo Moré ran...
View Article"This digital revolution is a learning revolution. As long as we don’t waste...
I’ve been thinking a lot about technology in education over the past several years prompted, in part, by [Oliver]’s experiences as a public school student, and, in part, by my work on behalf of the PEI...
View ArticlePuppies in School
Eileen Higginbotham, Resource Teacher at Prince Street Elementary, has been doing very interesting work at the school with dogs and children, and she’s started to write about this “Prince Street Puppy...
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How I updated my Nokia Lumia 800 to Windows Phone 7.8
I’ve been driving around a Nokia Lumia 800 phone for the last year. Given that everyone else I know carries either an iPhone (80%) or an Android phone (15%) or no phone at all (5%), you might think...
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Printing a Four Page Book
I’ve been working out various ways of printing a paragraph of Anaïs Nin’s diary and finally settled on a tiny 4-page book. Which means that I needed to again get my head around the geography of...
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Welcome to Crazytown: Public Libraries Confront Digital Objects
Yesterday I saw this tweet, about a teach-yourself-Norwegian audiobook available from the Public Library Service:As I do want to learn Norwegian, at least in theory, I followed the link, which led me...
View ArticleTerry MacIsaac: One of Canada's Outstanding Principals
Terry MacIsaac has been the Principal at Prince Street Elementary School for Oliver’s entire 6 year stint there, and over that period I’ve come to know him as a smart, engaged, caring educator. Not...
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Queens Square in OpenStreetMap
I decided that it was only right, given the work I’ve been doing with OpenStreetMap on the UPEI campus, that I should revisit the neighbourhoods closer to home too. Given that my life is lived, in...
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