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Charlottetown: Then and Now
Oliver and I went for a walk last night after supper: I wanted to show off my new PirateBox so we took his laptop and browsed around for a while looking for something interesting.We settled on Prince...
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ruk.ca: 2007 vs. 2013
From June 28 to July 27 in 2007 this site received 30,906 visitors. They spent an average of 1 minute and 6 seconds here, and visited 1.64 pages on average. Here’s where they came from:Six years later,...
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Act Quickly Summer is Almost Over
When I woke up this morning I realized that July 31 is coming up on Wednesday, which means there’s only a month of summer left. I panicked and fled to the letterpress shop to compose myself.These...
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Arthole
In addition to a non-stop supply of Anne & Gilbert, we are blessed here in the Reinventorium with an art gallery two floors down, in the basement of The Guild. Honestly, I don’t know how those of...
View ArticleFablab Open House 24 Hours Late, But Awesome Nonetheless
Early last Saturday morning I ran into Andy Trivett, the Adama of the nascent Fablab at the University of PEI, at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market.“Are you coming to our open house?”, Andy asked.“What...
View ArticleThe Future of Offline File Sharing
This video was shown at PirateBox Camp earlier in the month; it describes a “3-Day Masterclass during Dutch Technology Week” held last summer in the Netherlands and it’s a good review of the state of...
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Fellowcountrymen
Oliver and I walked through Queens Square in Charlottetown early one evening last week and stopped to read the Boer War memorial. I noticed that it used the word “fellowcountrymen” as a single word,...
View ArticleMake Your Own PirateBox Workshop
I’m hosting a Make Your Own PirateBox workshop on August 18, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Confederation Landing Park (where better to host a pirate-themed workshop than on the wharf!). Details...
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A PirateBox on My Back
I took delivery on Friday of a Anker Astro2 Dual USB Output 8400mAh External Battery, ordered a few days earlier from Amazon.ca. It’s a box about the size of a 1994 mobile phone with two full-size USB...
View ArticleBit and Bytes from TV Ontario
The great Canadian actor Billy Van died 11 years ago; the blog post I wrote to mark his passing continues to get traffic and comments, and I think of Billy often.I knew Billy for two things:...
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PirateBox + Firefox OS = PirateFox
I built a cool little app called PirateFox that knits together my two digital distractions of the moment, Firefox OS and PirateBox.The app has a simple function: to share images, audio and video from a...
View ArticleEric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton
Pan Wendt, Curator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, tumbled into me at Youngfolk & The Kettle Black the other day and introduced me to Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton, current...
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Prince Edward Island Library Service Ebook and Audiobook Statistics
I was searching about yesterday looking for some information about the DRM system that Overdrive uses to lock up ebooks it makes available to public libraries (including Prince Edward Island’s Library...
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Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry...
On a cool summer night last year I joined a couple of dozen other people in Kings Square in Charlottetown to watch WOLVES>BOYS, one of the shows the 2012 edition of The Island Fringe Festival. It...
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Beta-Testing Coffee Bag Design
It’s good to take a coffee bag design out for a ride, to experience how it looks when it’s filled with coffee (or, in this case, rags standing in for coffee) and folded up and out in the wild. So I...
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Reconsidered Coffee Bag
After sitting with this coffee bag design for a while, I reconsidered the layout, moved the type around, and ended up with this for the final design:(I don’t know my my camera took a photo that makes...
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Dear Apple: This is Not Good Enough
Dear Apple,Just under a year ago we bought a MacBook Air for my son Oliver. He was 11 at the time; he’s 12 now. It’s a great little machine, and it served him well in school all year long. I refer to...
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Anatomy of a Coffee Bag Design
A little more detail about the new design of the Youngfolk & The Kettle Black coffee bags (which are now available at the Richmond Street location to hold your pound of coffee, should you wish).The...
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Turkey on $14 a Day
Here are the tables from the 1975 Island Tel directory listing the cost of making “station-to-station” and “person-to-person” long distance calls to Canada and the United States. Wikipedia summarizes...
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geojson.io
From Olle comes a pointer to this great news from GitHub about supporting GeoJSON in Gist (keep reading if you’ve no idea what that means; I promise it gets better soon).In that announcment post is a...
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