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"They must also be in the grip of an overwhelming idea which is very good..."
The opening of a brand new Exploratorium yesterday in San Francisco got me thinking about its old home in the Palace of Fine Arts and a facsinating event that took place there 42 years ago this June.In...
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In case you’ve missed the media blitz elsewhere (thanks, Mitch Cormier at CBC Island Morning, and all the retweeters), I’m hosting an “Open Minecraft Lab” at Robertson Library, University of PEI, on...
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The Guardian Crossword, Feb. 1949
Comics and crosswords are some of the most interesting parts of the daily newspaper, especially when you’re reading archival issues. Here’s the “Daily Crossword” from the Charlottetown Guardian,...
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Design means knowing when to walk away...
Today was the day to print the red layer on the Youngfolk & The Kettle Black coffee bags. It started off looking like this:I struggled with various ways of squeezing “Young Folk Kettle Black” into...
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Status Board and PEI Electricity
I’m a big fan of Panic’s iPad app Status Board: it’s beautiful, and it’s easy to get your own data into. To that end, I took the PEI electricity data that I’m already scraping and created a...
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The Guild Sign: v1.0 vs. v2.0
The Guild got a new sign on the front yesterday. While I am generally against flashy electronic signs, watching the toils of The Guild staff in wrangling the letters onto the old manual sign in the...
View Article"Just say what I said last year..."
Charlottetown’s Deputy Mayor Stu MacFadyen quoted in a City of Charlottetown press release in August 2012 on cruise ship visitors in Charlottetown:“Beyond that, these passengers contribute to the...
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Coffee in Bags
Remember those coffee bags I printed up for Youngfolk & The Kettle Black? Well they’re in use now, filled with coffee and available for sale in the roastery at 142 Richmond Street (Victoria Row) in...
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Riding the Cowcatcher of Hope
The fleet of Charlottetown Transit is a patchwork quilt of ye olde trolley buses, castoffs from other transit companies (complete with signage in Spanish!) and, inexplicably, a thoroughly modern,...
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Ten Years Later
Ten years ago, on June 16, 2003, we held a session at the University of Prince Edward Island about blogging called “Weblog Night in Charlottetown.” To promote the session, Catherine Hennessey and I...
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Geeksphone Peak: Early Days
On Thursday afternoon a small box arrived by UPS at Reinvented HQ: my Firefox OS-driven Peak mobile phone fresh from Geeksphone in Spain:I ordered the phone because I like the idea of developing for...
View ArticleBrushbot Creepers Attack!
Gentle Islanders may not be aware that there are librarians in our midst this week, converging on Charlottetown from all across the Atlantic provinces for the annual conference of the Atlantic...
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How to change the search provider for Firefox OS phones from Bing to Google
One of the great things about having the source code to your phone’s operating system is that you can change your phone’s behaviour in ways you wouldn’t be able to otherwise.For example, on my...
View ArticleTo New Hampshire by Train (sort of)
At this end of this month I will make what, by my count, will be my 30th trip this decade to visit my colleagues at Yankee Publishing in Dublin, New Hampshire. Over those ten years (in in the years...
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Canoe & I or Around the Island in a Canoe (on $10.00)
One of my favourite books is Canoe & I or Around the Island in a Canoe (on $10.00) by Bill Reddin, the tale of his quest, starting in 1934, to canoe his way around Prince Edward Island.His journey,...
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Learning to Love Richard Homburg All Over Again
The plot of approximately 25% of Hollywood romantic comedies goes something like this.Young couple meet, fall passionately in love, get married, have kids.Then something happens – husband starts...
View ArticleLearning to Love Tim Banks All Over Again
While I reserve the right to have darts in my eyes with regards to past wrongs, it must be said that Tim Banks and his APM have done an absolutely stellar job restoring the Kays Building in downtown...
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How I printed parts for my desk (and felt the promise of 3D printing)
About 8 years ago the word on the street here in Charlottetown was that you could get a great deal on adjustable desks at the Summerside Clearance Centre. I ended up buying two, one for myself and a...
View ArticleRemembering KaBoom
This pierce by Laura Chapin broadcast last week on CBC Prince Edward Island’s Island Morning is a touching portrait of Eileen Higginbotham’s Prince Street Puppy Project. It’s a sad story – you will get...
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Desk Hole Filler v2.0 (with USB)
I took the “desk hole filler” (naming things is obviously not my forté) and tinkered with it a little to create a hole for a USB extension cable. You can grab the upgraded design on Tinkercad. Here’s...
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