2015 Charlottetown Area Levee Schedule
Here’s is the 2015 levee schedule for January 1, 2015 for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and area. This is the 10th year (wow!) I’ve been collating and confirming this information. If you’re new...
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If it can't be found in Canadian Tire, try the 3D printer...
I’m coming up on the end of a 14 year program of resuscitating the old metal window blinds that were in our house when we bought it in 2000. They’re generally in good shape structurally, but the cords...
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Alex Campbell in a Tiny Box
My colleagues at Robertson Library have been hard at work in recent weeks publishing the audiobook and ebook versions of the Alex B. Campbell biography by Wade MacLauchlan.Librarians are nothing if not...
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12 minutes and 29 seconds later in Charlottetown
I have become diverted by an interest in the history of time on Prince Edward Island. To this end, ably aided by Simon Lloyd at Robertson Library, I have begun to explore the relevant legislation.Here,...
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Casa Mia Gift Certificates
I spent the afternoon printing a new round of gift certificates for Casa Mia Café, to feed the demand for the holidays. They’ll be on sale as soon as the ink is dry.They are printed on Indian cotton...
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Making The Guardian website slightly less annoying for subscribers...
My in-laws are visiting us, and my father-in-law is a dedicated newspaper reader, so I was prompted me to take out a subscription to The Guardian, Prince Edward Island’s newspaper of record, for the...
View ArticleAnnals of Excuses for Sexism
Wade MacLauchlan reports in his biography of Alex B. Campbell that January 1, 1975 – 40 years ago next week – was the first occasion that women were permitted to attend the lieutenant-governor’s levee,...
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Governor Bars Women from New Year's Levee
As I reported yesterday, January 1, 1975 was the first year that women were welcomed, albeit somewhat grudgingly, at the annual New Year’s Day levee at Government House in Charlottetown.But that wasn’t...
View ArticleAlex B. Campbell 2.0
About a month ago I received an invitation, under the aegis of my role as Hacker in Residence, Robertson Library, to a meeting in the library with the team working on publishing the ebook and...
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Mystery Virus Destroys Capitalism
In the fall of 1992 I was living in Peterborough, Ontario doing freelance design work after almost 2 years spent in the composing room of the Peterborough Examiner newspaper. Catherine and I were...
View ArticleConsumption 2014
Here’s a summary of all of our metered consumption for 2014. The electricity, heating oil (furnace, domestic hot water) and water are for the 2048 square foot house that Catherine, Oliver and I live...
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How's the electricity out there?
I’ve been archiving Prince Edward Island electricity load and generation data for more than 2 years now, but to date the only way of visualizing that data was a confusing graph. A graph that loads...
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L.L. Bean Jacket 3.0
Longtime readers will recall that 4 years ago I related the story of how L.L. Bean exchanged my 5 year old winter jacket with a broken zipper for a brand new winter jacket (and an $86 windfall).That...
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Wherein random things are delivered to our house, daily, from China
A few weeks ago I noticed an advert on A Softer World that looked like this:If there was ever an ad crafted to attract my attention, it was that: the “interesting” caught my eye, the “$1/Day” pulled me...
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Alex Campbell's Signature
I have found myself in possession of a letterpress cut of former Prince Edward Island Premier Alex B. Campbell’s signature.While I thought briefly that I might use this great power dash off some quick...
View ArticleInvisibilia and the Podcasting Renaissance
Podcasting, it seems, is undergoing a renaissance. And my favourite of the new crop is Invisibilia from NPR, a podcast (and, apparently, also a radio program) that “explores the intangible forces that...
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Snow Day for the Jetta
After a slow start, the snow has come to Charlottetown in droves over the past several weeks. By some miracle, we’ve managed to keep our car shoveled out and driveable, in no small part due to the...
View ArticleJetta Protests My Love
So yesterday I gave my Jetta the day off, in the humid and warm confines of the Delta Prince Edward underground parking lot.Around supper time I retrieved the car and returning it to the frigid...
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It's like The Great Storm never happened...
It snowed. For two days. 86 cm worth of snow in Charlottetown at last report.And then it was over. Today is a bright, sunny day. Schools are closed. Businesses are closed. There is a lot of snow....
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Apache Hung, But Why?
Posting this here just in case others find themselves in the same situation.Since migrating this site from my own silverorange-colocated server to Amazon AWS, I’ve been experiencing seemingly random...
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