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A Train across Slovakia
Six years ago today Oliver and I were on a train running across the top of Slovakia, from Kosice to Bratislava, midway through our 2009 father-and-son trip to Europe.It was a crazy, wonderful trip, the...
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A Bus Across America
The inspiration for any travels I’ve taken with Oliver as a father flows directly from a trip I took as a son in 1980: my father and I got on a Greyhound bus in Buffalo, New York the spring that I...
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"...to establish a Gopher/World Wide Web service for PEI..."
Twenty years ago this winter, in January of 1995, I signed a 3 month contract with the Government of Prince Edward Island “…to establish a Gopher/World Wide Web service for PEI…”Prince Edward Island |...
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Preparing for The Flood
A month ago my arch enemy was snow. As spring gradually arrives, it’s water that’s the new foe: with 5 feet of snow in our backyard (and I am not exaggerating) and temperatures forecast to be above 5ºC...
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I am a Canadian
Once I discovered that I had a letterpress cut of Alex B. Campbell’s signature in my collection, I needed to print something that took advantage of this lucky happenstance. And I found my inspiration...
View ArticleThe Setup
Using Mita’s post as both inspiration and template, here’s a snapshot of my hardware and software setup as of the spring of 2015.InfrastructureMy office is on the second floor of The Guild in downtown...
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Death to Trees
After Hurricane Juan in 2003 I wrote, in my diary of the events surrounding the storm:Catherine gets up with an awful barometric headache, and decides to sleep in Oliver’s bed just in case a tree falls...
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14 km above our heads at 1200 km/h
I’m now 3 weeks into my experiment using a PiAware to track airplanes flying over Prince Edward Island. And I’ve been joined in the effort by my friend Ken, who, fortuitously, lives in Tyne Valley and...
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Install What's My Lot?
Remember What’s My Lot?, my web app that will tell you, if you’re on Prince Edward Island, what lot you’re standing in?Now, in addition to being a regular everyday website, at whatsmylot.com, you can...
View ArticleWHOIS making websites for PEI poltical parties?
Every time you type a web address into your browser, you’re using something called a domain name– the one for this website, for example, is ruk.ca.Anyone can register a domain name and there’s a...
View ArticleWhat is making websites for PEI poltical parties?
Now we know who is making website for PEI political parties, what about the underlying software, the so-called “content management system” that parties use to maintain their websites.For every site on...
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PEI Political Parties on Twitter
Twitter displays a “followers” count for every user and using the Twitter API this information can be extracted for a collection of Twitters users. I fed the Twitter handles of PEI’s registered...
View ArticleHTML Colour Codes for Prince Edward Island Political Parties
Green#168E45Island#9F100CLiberal#E31B25NDP#F78F1EPC#013E7FPolitics | HTML | Prince Edward Island
View ArticleWomen Running in the 2015 PEI Provincial Election
According to the 2011 census, Prince Edward Island is made up of 48% men and 52% women. One would expect, then, that political parties would seek to run approximately equal numbers of men and women...
View ArticleMike Duffy at the Movies
Among the many things contained with the Mike Duffy Diaries are notes of the movies he attended from January 2009 to December 2012.Our taste in movies has considerable overlap; of the 34 movies he...
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Remembering the Fallen Elms
It’s been remarkable to hear the degree to which the wholesale eradication of the elm trees of Charlottetown has affected people of the city.People from all walks of life, of all political stripes, of...
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Car Backup Camera Display + Raspberry Pi
One of the challenges in setting up the Raspberry Pi’s I use for the Social Consumption Project is that I need to arrive at my test households with a ungainly HDMI monitor plus a keyboard to allow me...
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Gallery of Levee Photos
The annual photo-with-the-Premier-at-the-levee arrived in the mail a few months ago (how those experts in the Premier’s Office manage to connect all the photos with all the people in the photos...
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The Amazing Story of Meddie Gallant, Henry Pineau, the District of First...
In the February 8, 1899 edition of The Guardian, a story of election intrigue from Prince County concerning the rise and fall of Amédée “Meddie” Gallant, farmer and fish exporter and Liberal candidate...
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