LARP
I have known about the Nordic “Live Action Role Playing” (LARP) movement since my friend Olle, one of its practictioners, first told me about it when we met all those years ago.For someone like me with...
View ArticleAm I old?
I made a hacky little AppleScript to sort through the birthdates for the 90 of my 784 contacts (11%) where I have record of something. Of those 90 contacts: 41 are older than me (45%) 4 are the same...
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Get Cell ID: A Cell Network "Stumbler" for Firefox OS
Last week Mozilla unveiledMozilla Location Services, which it describes as “a new experimental pilot project to provide geo-location lookups based on publicly observable cell tower and wifi access...
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Oscar Wilde visits Charlottetown
In the fall of 1882 Oscar Wilde made a 9-stop tour of the Canadian Maritimes, a tour that brought him to Charlottetown on the evening of October 11, 1882 for a lecture, Decorative Arts, presented at...
View ArticleBreakfast with the A-Team
I expected the day to start with a small meeting – perhaps 3 or 4 people – around a table at Casa Mia Café: “teacher agent of change” Bonnie Bracey Sutton is in Charlottetown for the StopCyberbullying...
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Suddenly, a New Avatar
For as long as I can remember – for as long as avatars have been a part of the Internet – the visual representation of “me online” has been a photo I took a decade ago, in July of 2003, and then...
View Article"A Short Sugar Rush of Superiority"
A few weeks ago my friend Daniel Burka wrote something that continues to resonate with me, a personal essay about endeavouring to be “more wholehearted.” He wrote, in part:I’m often sarcastic about,...
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Drop Caps
I’m working on setting an excerpt of the lecture that Oscar Wilde gave in Charlottetown in 1882, and using the opportunity to experiment with setting a drop cap for the first time:I’m setting the body...
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Drop Caps Through the Ages
Google Books is a treasure-trove of books from the 19th century, and thus a good place to turn if you are, as I, setting metal type and trying to get a feel for spacing drop caps. Here are some...
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Grotesk Drop Cap
Applying what I learned from history along with some liberal interpretations of advice from my friend Fred the Printer, this has now become this:I switched the drop cap from 30 point Univers to 48...
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Catchbox: Liberating the Microphone
When I read about Catchbox, a “throwable microphone,” on the Alibis for Interaction blog in September I didn’t get it.“What’s wrong with regular old microphones?”, I thought.Then I went to Alibis for...
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One Year in PEI Electricity
One year ago today I started archiving the energy load and generation data that the Province of PEI makes available at 15 minute intervals on its website. I’ve collected 34,471 data points (if you like...
View Article"...to step at once aside from and yet deeper into the world as you...
Through one of those rabbit holes that the web is so good at conjuring I came across the heart-wrenchingly-good tract The Playwork Primer (PDF) this morning.When I was young I wanted to be a teacher,...
View ArticlePlazeCamp Demo Video
I was cleaning out an old long-forgotten S3 bucket this morning and came across the video of the demo session from PlazeCamp, the developer hackday we held at Plazes back in January of 2008. An...
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Howto: Firefox OS + Calendar + Raspberry Pi + ownCloud + Self-Signed SSL...
I’ve been experimenting with ownCloud on my Raspberry Pi as an alternative to Google (for contact and calendar sync) and Dropbox (for file sync). Because of the contrained resources of the Raspberry Pi...
View Article"Scalable designs for educational transformation..."
From Challenges to learning and schooling in the digital networked world of the 21st centuryBeyond making 21st century competencies a part of education, understanding how ICT might shift our...
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On Target
So the new Target store opening here in Charlottetown last week, taking the place of the old Zellers (which, in turn, took the place of the old Towers and the old IGA).Target, for we here on the...
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My Sexy New Firefox
I updated my Firefox Nightly and, blamo, this ye olde UI:became this sexy new UI:It’s called Australis and you can read more here and watch a video introduction here.Add a Comment
View ArticleNørd Camp
Nørd Camp (“Geek Camp” in Danish) is a project of the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. In poorly-translated-from-Danish it describes itself as a summer camp where:Every day is a new day filled with new...
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