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How to host a Municipal Election Website for $2.44
It was municipal election day for Charlottetown, Summerside, Stratford and Cornwall here in Prince Edward Island yesterday, and my primary role in the process was to ensure that there was...
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The End of GOOG411
One of my favourite Google services is 1-800-GOOG-411, its automated free “directory assistance and call completion” service. The telephony geek in me appreciates its elegant design (and the...
View ArticleLeo Broderick is a Patriot
I’ll not comment on the particulars of PoppyGate, other than to offer this: the president of the Royal Canadian Legion’s P.E.I. command was quoted by the CBC as saying “The people who are distributing...
View ArticleSeasons Change
Every year I know that spring has arrived when Dave Coffin arrives on the Island from wherever life has taken him over the winter. And I know that autumn is upon us when I run into Eugene Sauve at Casa...
View ArticleTranslating Home and School
Oliver’s school has large population of new immigrant students, and not all of their parents speak English. At the Prince Street Home and School we began to become concerned last year that because of...
View ArticleTiny Letterpress Gallery
I’ve been accumulating examples of letterpress printing, and needed a place to hang them, so I strung a length of twine between two hooks in my office, and hung them all up with binder clips, inspired...
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Thinglink
Remember Thinglink? It started off as a “everything in the world gets its own unique ID” project focused on handmade items and has recently reinvented itself as a “tag stuff in photos” project that...
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Letterpress. In Colour!
Somewhere – likely on the excellent BriarPress.org – I read that one way of obtaining ink to use with your letterpress is to ask local print shops for their “so little ink in the bottom of the can that...
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Downtime
I use a modified Linksys WRT-54G wireless router as the heart of the Reinvented network here at HQ. It’s not an industrial strength router, but we’re not sending people to the Moon here, and it’s been...
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Mrs. Rachel Lynde on Fabric
The first sentence of Anne of Green Gables printed on cotton fabric with an Adana Eight Five letterpress, using blue soy-based ink.
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Choice is Overrated
For a while there it looked like we’d be traveling to Tokyo instead of Germany this fall. Europe won out, but Tokyo’s still high on my list, and by way of experimenting both with the city and with...
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How to remove Mayor Clifford Lee from the City of Charlottetown Website
The City of Charlottetown has a serviceable website with one fatal flaw: a very annoying video of Mayor Clifford Lee that’s forever popping up right when you’re looking for the telephone number for...
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Reinvented in Metal
The Reinvented Inc. logo in metal, produced by The Augustine Company. Original design by Tom Hughes (whose original EPS file simply got converted to a PDF and emailed to Iowa).
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Reinvented Logo Letterpressed
I took my new Reinvented logo engraving out for a ride this afternoon, printing it on 200 lb. Crane Lettra card stock. There was a small issue with the “bottom swoop” that I think I can solve by...
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How we Prioritize with Trac
For almost three years we’ve been using Trac as a project and issue management application in our work with Yankee. This after many years of experimenting with other systems, some homebrew and some...
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Gill Sans
Newly arrived from M&H Type Foundry in San Francisco, Gill Sans in 18pt. and 12pt., caps and smalls. Never have I been so excited by the delivery of lead by post.
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I Like Traffic Lights
This is a picture of a situation that, in the world of pedestrian traffic signals, should never happen: the “walk” signal is still counting down while the light for cars is red, and the light for cars...
View ArticleCircus
I’ve really enjoyed the six-part television series Circus that’s been airing this fall on PBS (it came to an end this week, but you can watch the entire series online). It’s beautifully photographed,...
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Prince Street Raffle Tickets
I’ve printed the tickets for the annual Prince Street Home and School Association’s Christmas raffle for the past 2 years using a simple “design in OmniGraffle, print at Staples” technique. This year I...
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