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Cranking
You would think that after, say, the first two or three hundred, the process of printing coffee bags on the Golding Jobber № 8 would get, well, a little repetitive. Especially because printing...
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Oliver showed me ChaosInYourTown.com this morning. While it’s essentially a virality-baiting ad for State Farm, it’s imaginatively done, and, other than a few rendering hiccups, an impressive technical...
View ArticleWatching YouTube on TV
Our Nintendo Wii has had a YouTube app available for it for a while now. We installed it when it first came out and it was dreadful enough that we never used it: videos took forever to buffer, the UI...
View ArticleHow to Show a Film at The Guild
Back at the beginning of December I decided that it would be nice for the Minecraft-interested people of the Charlottetown area to get together to watch Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, a film about the...
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The 2014 Levee Awards
Oliver turned 13 in 2013 (was there ever a more handy mnemonic!) and, given that he’s a teenager now, and a curious one at that, it seemed like the right year to elevate him to my official New Years...
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Seasonally Appropriate Printing
My friend Erin passed along a few engravings that she’d purchased many years ago in Aberfoyle, Ontario. One of them was of a collection of mittens and in this season of snow and ice it seemed like a...
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Our House is on an Album Cover!
There are very few historical photosgraphs of our house at 100 Prince Street in Charlottetown, and those that are tend to be photographs of something else – Trinity Church is just up the street for...
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Peak Camera Getting Better
Here’s a photo I snapped this afternoon with my Firefox OS-driven Geeksphone Peak mobile phone. The Peak’s camera, as Firefox OS has improved and Geeksphone has applied its vendor-specific magic, has...
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PEI1914
From The Guardian, January 15, 1914, one hundred years ago today. No mention of a “Celebration Zone” at all.Add a Comment
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QEH Evolves
I updated Charlottetown’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital in OpenStreetMap this morning, as it has undergone quite a bit of change since it was first added there. I didn’t really grasp how much change had...
View Article"It's a one-day infomercial..."
The Minister of Tourism, quoted in The Guardian, describing what a visit to Prince Edward Island on a cruise ship is like:“It’s a one-day infomercial for Prince Edward Island and we are seeing some of...
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My 10 Most Viewed Flickr Photos
I’ve been a Flickr user for 10 years and I’ve uploaded just over 9,000 photos there. Over all that time, here are the most viewed of those photos:Add a Comment
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Borgen
My friend Ann turned me on to the Danish television series Borgen, a political drama centred around the election and government of Denmark’s (fictional) first female Prime Minister.Borgen isn’t an easy...
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German Crossed Sevens
I can’t imagine a better result from mailing out Christmas cards than the solving of a German postal mystery for my old friend James. It all comes down to whether the sever in the “78” in his address...
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Data Privacy Day: Goodbye to Google Analytics
It’s Data Privacy Day today, and I started the day off by reading Five Potential Privacy Pitfalls for Developers from Mozilla. One these pitfalls Mozilla describes as “More isn’t always better,”...
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How I Changed the Way I Knot
I’ve been tying knots the wrong way, I have learned.First, I’ve been knotting my shoes the wrong way, as I learned from this TED video. Six months ago I switched to the new system espoused there, and...
View Article"...featuring thoughtful lyrics sung by Cers in his native Latvian tongue."
Yesterday my brother Steve, initially a Twitter-skeptic and now one of the most prolific twitterers I know, piled on to the #CBCBands hash tag with gusto ( “‘The National’ Research Council Official...
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In the Heart of Things: Splendid room, with adjoining bath, $2.00
From The Charlottetown Guardian, February 10, 1914, an advertisement for the Hotel Martinique in New York City, at the corner of 32nd and Broadway:From Google Streetview, the Hotel Martinique today,...
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A Dream Realized: The Charlottetown Guardian Archive Goes Online
I met Mark Leggott at the Access conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1994. We kept in touch over the ensuing years, and renewed our acquaintance when Mark moved to Prince Edward Island in 2006 to...
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