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Making Province of PEI GIS Data Usable in the Real World
The Province of PEI has a treasure trove of public GIS data available and using my GIS-data-grabber script you can slurp it all down easily to your local machine. Run that script and you’ll end up with...
View ArticleThis is Mac calling, from the Office of Tim Cook
Adam Young, who runs the Youngfolk & The Kettle Black coffee shop with his wife Rebekha, thinks about service – real, genuine, human-level service – quite a bit.Adam told me once that he makes a...
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The Press-to-Shelf Movement
The coffee bags I designed and printed on Monday? On Tuesday morning they were on the shelf at Youngfolk & The Kettle Black on Richmond Street filled with coffee and ready for sale. I can’t tell...
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There’s a lot of Arthole to love, but my deepest love is reserved for the piece by Donnalee Downe titled The Mailroom: 59 Love Letters.It really is 59 letters, 59 from-real-life-written-to-Donnalee...
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Walking to the Royalty Junction Wye
I have long been curious about Royalty Junction, the spot north of Charlottetown where the east-west railway line met the Charlottetown railway line. I could never figure out why I never ended up...
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What makes you a "well-known businessman" in The Guardian?
In an article on August 16, 2013, The Charlottetown Guardian newspaper referrred to Tim Banks as a “well-known businessman” (emphasis mine):The provincial government is lending a total of just over $8...
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MacBook Air Repaired
Oliver’s MacBook Air broke. I got frustrated trying to get it repaired. I emailed Tim Cook at Apple about my frustration. Tim Cook’s office replied, and took on the case. We drove to Moncton. Oliver’s...
View Article"City businessman ticked that bank is frozen in time"
This isn’t quite getting hoist on my own petard, but apropos of What makes you a “well-known businessman” in The Guardian?, I note that of the 53 references to my various exploits that have appeared in...
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People Acting Quickly
One of the more satisfying aspects of my Mail Me Something project is getting to see things I’ve printed on the letterpress popping up all over the world as envelopes arrive, are unsealed, and photos...
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We use a lot of electricity on Prince Edward Island, even in the summer...
I have been archiving Prince Edward Island energy load and generation data since November and I’ve created various tools, like this graph and this gauge and this mobile app to put this data in my...
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Shutting Down the Elections PEI Operation: 17 Years of Elections on the Web
By the fall of 1996 I had been working on the website of the Province of Prince Edward Island for over a year and we were well on the way to expanding the site from its tourism-information roots to...
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Localizing my Firefox OS Foursquare Checkin App
I created Checkin, my Firefox OS Foursquare checkin app, as much to learn about Firefox OS as to scratch my own checkin itch. The next step along this road was to “localize” the app: in short, to make...
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Coffee Bags in The Guardian
While I was in getting coffee at Youngfolk & The Kettle Black this afternoon, personable owner Adam Young mentioned to me that the coffee bags I printed for them on the letterpress featured in Bob...
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Turn Right on Kent Street
We were out the door at 8:00 a.m. this morning – the bell at St. Paul’s Church had just started to chime – and headed up Prince Street, as we have hundreds of times since Oliver started school.Today,...
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We Made a Forest
My family moved to the small village of Carlisle, Ontario in 1973. It was a sort of toned-down “back to the land” effort by our parents: no cows or chickens or wind power or yurts, but certainly a move...
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Hacking Stuart McLean
The Vinyl Cafe is a much-beloved long-running CBC Radio programme hosted by Stuart McLean. The heart of each episode are the “Dave and Morley stories,” tales of a fictional Canadian family and their...
View Article"Transom.org channels new work and voices to public radio and public media"
I’ve become a big fan of the work of Transom.org, a project of the Massachusetts-based non-profit Atlantic Public Media that “channels new work and voices to public radio and public media.”Two episodes...
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The Old Farmer's Almanac for 2014
The 222nd edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac goes on sale today across North America. On Prince Edward Island you can buy your copy of the Canadian Edition at: Sobeys Atlantic Superstore Coop stores...
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Peter's Special
For many years my friend David has had his own special at Timothy’s Coffee; the details escape me, but it’s along the lines of coffee, toast and a copy of the Globe and Mail. I’ve always been jealous...
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Alfred Workflow to Find Code Examples in Drupal
Here’s something that happens to me everyday: I’m working on coding a Drupal module and I need to use a function that I know I’ve used elsewhere, and I want to use that earlier case as an example.What...
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