Deluge
I arrived in Vemont yesterday to a light drizzle. The rental car place dropped me off at the Brattleboro Coop, a brand new colossus of cooperation quadruple the size of the old coop grocery store they...
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I Spent the Night with Jane Jacobs in an Abandoned Post Office
The James Farley Post Office is an imposing behemoth of a building right across 8th Avenue from Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station. To say it’s “abandoned” isn’t completely accurate: it’s...
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The Sketchbook Project
Right around the corner from our apartment in Brooklyn was the Brooklyn Art Library, home to The Sketchbook Project. The walls are lined with sketchbooks from all over the world; you can browse through...
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Prince Edward Island GIS Numbers
I’m posting this so that I can refer to it later, as I’m always finding myself looking for these numbers. Latitude and Longitude of PEI Places Charlottetown (City Hall): 46.23527, -63.12958 Summerside...
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OpenCellID.org and Firefox OS
The OpenCellID.org site isn’t much to look at, but it’s a powerful project with a rich data set that can be used to drive development of location-based services for mobile devices without a GPS (or...
View ArticleRukavinas on This American Life
If you’re in the radio game – and it’s something of a family business for we Rukavinas – then This American Life is the bigs. Which makes it both unfortunate and somewhat delightful that there was a...
View ArticleRichard Homburg: Bing vs. Google
Journalist Sonny Motké interviewed Richard Homburg for Quote magazine. The article summarizing the interview, Richard Homburg: ‘Nieuw management Homburg Invest pleegde een coup’ is in Dutch, so I ran...
View ArticlePrince Edward Island School Calendar, 2013-2014
The School Calendar for 2013-2014 has just been released and I’ve again taken the official Prince Edward Island School Calendar and updated a set of public calendar files to make it easier for parents...
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Notes from the Summer
I ran into my friend Susan this morning at Casa Mia Café and she mentioned that she and her husband Perry (reference) are making a list of things they want to do this summer.This strikes me as an...
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Behold my awesome consumer power!
On Sunday afternoon I was sitting at the front table at Casa Mia Café here in Charlottetown eating lunch. As I have many times before, I watched new customers walk in the front door, stop, and, looking...
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Anne of Green Gables and I are living together...
As you will know if you follow me on Twitter, from a series of alternately mournful and celebratory tweets of late, the musical Anne & Gilbert is running in The Guild this summer. And by “in The...
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The Nascent UPEI Fablab
I spent this morning being trained to use an Objet30 Desktop 3D printer up in the nascent fablab in the Engineering Department at the University of PEI.Remember last week when it was announced that an...
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King of Prince Street Growing Up
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View ArticleIn Praise of Mary Gillis
Catherine and Oliver are spending two weeks up in Ontario visiting her family and mine and they took the opportunity to stop over in Ottawa for a couple of days to give Oliver his first opportunity to...
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The Evans McKeil visits PEI
I have a MarineTraffic.com alert set up to let me know when vessels arrive and depart Charlottetown Harbour; early Friday morning one of these alerts landed in my email:Not so remarkable, perhaps: it’s...
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The Great Charlottetown Frozen Yogurt Wars of 2013
Remember frozen yogurt? It was big in the early 1990s. For a time there it seemed that you couldn’t escape it, whether you were filling up your car with gasoline or buying chicken. I went to the big...
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The One Where I Buy Beer for the Crew of a Tugboat
Remember the Evans McKeil, the tug that visited Charlottetown Harbour last week? Well I noticed last night that she was back, and I decided that I couldn’t let this second visit pass without going down...
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Mud Starts in 20 Minutes
This popped up on my Macbook Air’s screen a moment ago:It appeared there because I finally got around to adding a feature to the City Cinema website that I’ve been meaning to add for years: for any...
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How to Delete Many "Unsorted Items" from HERE Maps
There’s a lot to like about HERE Maps (née Ovi Maps, née Nokia Maps), especially, for my purposes, that it runs very well on Firefox OS mobile devices – indeed Mozilla is promoting it as the “maps”...
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