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Grand Pré
We were in Nova Scotia for a long weekend, and on the spur of the moment Sunday decided to drive up the Valley toward Wolfville, an area of the province we hadn’t been to, as a family, in more than 15...
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It’s Autistic Pride Day today, a day that, Wikipedia tells us, is “is a celebration of the neurodiversity of people on the autism spectrum.” I know this because Oliver, who’s the person in our family...
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Ultra Selfie Avatar
Oliver and I were having coffee this afternoon and I took this photo just to see how it would look if I held it up to my face:Cropped into a square and filtered through Instagram, the photo ended up...
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Talking to the Queen’s Printers
I spoke to the Queen’s Printers Association of Canada this week and wrote a little bit about my experience and included the slides I used.Queen's Printers | Presentation | Open Data
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Well, that was a horrible mistake...
What was I thinking updating my avatar to one that made me look like a foreboding, drunken, bruised, giant-nosed weirdo?I have recanted, and removed most traces thereof, replacing it with a variation...
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The Island Good Bread Explosion Reaches Cape Traverse
Thanks to Laura Chapin, who mentioned it on Facebook, Oliver and I headed to Cape Traverse for lunch at The Fifth Ingredient this at.Part of what might be called the “Island Good Bread Explosion,” a...
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Inside a Hard Drive
I’ve been using hard disk drives for more than 30 years. It was only today, during preparation of a load of e-waste that included an old iMac, that I opened one up and looked inside it for the first...
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Red Rocket Pi
A couple of years ago I bought canister of Red Rocket-brand breakfast tea at Sobey’s. I knew nothing about the brand, or the tea; I was 100% driven by the sharp-looking aluminum canister and its...
View ArticleWhat is there to see and do on Prince Edward Island?
A couple of times a year I get an email from faraway friends or family that’s some variation of “my buddy Gregor is coming to PEI in a few weeks: what should he be sure to see and do?”I’ve just had...
View ArticleShore Market in Stanhope
It’s on my list of Things to See and Do on PEI, but it bears additional highlighting: the newly-opened Shore Market in Stanhope, next to Richard’s Seafood, is that kind of place you wish were just up...
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Renting a Fiat 500 for the Weekend
I was taking the bus by Enterprise car rental on University Avenue a few weeks ago when I spotted a Fiat 500 in the lot. When I got back downtown I called them up to see if it was available, but it was...
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Burning Pizza Boxes to Make Pizza
Remember how I mentioned that, here in Prince Edward Island, the ballot boxes from the Provincial General Election are burned in an incinerator that, in part, generates the heat for Province House...
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Direct Action on Climate Change
I arrived at Charlottetown City Hall this morning on my bicycle only to find that the single bicycle rack in front of the building already had a bicycle attached to it, with the space for a second...
View ArticleDemocratic Renewal with a Techno Backbeat
I went a little wild this afternoon taking the White Paper on Democratic Renewal, released in the Legislative Assembly today, and liberating it from its PDF prison into a variety of more open formats...
View ArticleOff to New England
I’m off to New England tomorrow afternoon for the first time since January.I’ll be spending Monday night through Friday in southern New Hampshire, working with my colleagues at Yankee Publishing on...
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We Are the Walrus: A Summer Day for Father and Son
Here’s where life took Oliver and I yesterday, a roughtly-walrus-shaped track from Charlottetown up the spine of the Island, down to Borden, across to Summerside, back to New Glasgow and then...
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Three States
Last night, having concluded my business with my comrades at Yankee Publishing in Dublin, NH, I headed west to Brattleboro, Vermont for the evening.Brattleboro is one of my favourite towns: it’s so...
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New Type
I acquired two new fonts of type from Letterpress Things on Saturday.Tourist Gothic 36 pt.Futura Bold 30 pt.Letterpress | Letterpress Things | Type
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A SIM Card Primer for Canadians Traveling in the USA
These days the go-to solution for a Canadian traveling to the USA and needing a short-term prepaid SIM card for their mobile phone is Roam Mobility. They’re a Canadian company in the business of...
View ArticleLucy Angus Dives Deep into Samuel Holland's Map
You might think, pressing “play” on this video of conservator Lucy Angus, speaking at the Confederation Centre of the Arts on July 6, 2015, that you’ve missed a bit at the beginning.But you haven’t:...
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