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The Island Fringe Festival
When I moved to Prince Edward Island, in the early 1990s, I was 27 years old.And as near as I could tell, every other person on the Island was older than 50 or younger than 15. It was as if a...
View Article"It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time"
I awoke this morning to the news that Charlottetown City Police is to install “somewhere between 60 and 80 video cameras” in my neighbourhood to, it says, “assist in the protection of the public.”While...
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How to Print The New Yorker
The entire August 31, 1946 issue of The New Yorker magazine was devoted to a single article, by John Hersey, about the bombing of Hiroshima the year before. The magazine has re-published the article to...
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I've Gone Californian
In the fall of 2009 I took a short trip to Copenhagen as part of a climate change blogging project. Once the formal activities were over, I had four days to wander the city as a tourist, and it was...
View ArticlePublic-Private Surveillance
Remember that new CCTV surveillance network that Charlottetown City Police are installing?Today The Guardian reports that this is being done at “no cost to taxpayers” as it’s a business-supported...
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Charlottetown CCTV on OpenStreetMap
Using this man_made=surveillance page as a guide, I’ve started to add the new Charlottetown Police Service CCTV cameras to OpenStreetMap, You can see the position of one here.I’m adding them each with...
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Story of a Bicycle Rack
In the beginning there was no bicycle rack at all in front of The Guild. So I took a photo of how I parked my bicycle vs. how there was a large expanse of bicycle rack-friendly space a few metres away,...
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Summertime
It’s August 9. In previous years I was doing all manner of things this week:In 2014, I lamented the passing of Ron BoylesIn 2013, I was just starting out printing coffee bagsIn 2012, I was railing...
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Backing off Ligatures
Remember those discretionary ligatures I wrote about last week?Well, with regret, I’ve realized it’s best Istop using them, and so, by changing the settings in the Typogrify module for Drupal that...
View ArticleSpreading the Word about Dave's
Remember Dave’s Service Centre, my mechanic of choice?Well I had the Jetta in the shop there today to replace the pads and rotors on the front brakes – Dave suspects the rotors were the...
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These are the people in my neighbourhood (via Instagram and IFTTT)
Every day at around 4:00 p.m. I get an email, via IFTTT (IFThis Then That, a free web service that glues disparate services on the web together in interesting ways), that contains a digest of the...
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To the Fallen Elms of Charlottetown
Back in April, seemingly on the spur of the moment, Catherine created a quilted wall hanging for a public event at Trinity United Church to memorialize the many city elm trees that were being cut down...
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The Hotness of the Murrays
Prosperity, in the limited “is there a place to get good coffee, a good meal, and some interesting people to meet” sense that I use it, is like a roving spotlight that passes over Prince Edward Island,...
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Subscribing to the Royal Gazette
Back in June I spoke about open data to the Queen’s Printers Association of Canada, and the occasion reintroduced me the notion that perhaps chief among the roles of Canada’s Queen’s Printers is the...
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O'Neil Home Gallery (or "oh, look, a café right where we need it!")
Yesterday was an unusual one for me and Catherine: Oliver was off with Derrick camping and Cloggerooing and so we were left to our own devices as a couple. It was like 1998 all over again.Sitting in...
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Farewell ETAOIN SHRDLU
Here is an image of the front page of the New York Times from July 2, 1978, an auspicious day for the paper as it was the last day that the paper was composed from hot metal type using Linotype and...
View ArticleDuncan, Nardag, Morty, Hooper
There is notice in this week’s Royal Gazette that a person with middle name Nicole has changed it to Cole. Changing your name isn’t the most difficult thing to do, but it involves paperwork, and a $185...
View ArticleArt in the Open 2015
Oliver and I enjoyed another excellent iteration of Art in the Open, Charlottetown’s yearly end-of-summer outdoor site-specific art-infused celebration.There were houses in trees, and surround-sound...
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SSH to an EC2 Instance via Alfred
This may a task limited to me, but in case it’s not, here’s my goal:I have a collection of identical Amazon EC2 instances, all sharing the same “name” tag for identification; together they make up a...
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Upstreet: a neighbourhood pub, with better aesthetics
Let’s stipulate for the record, before I begin, that I’ve no great fondness for beer.If basil went extinct, I would be gutted. If I could never drink another beer, well, meh.There are some few small...
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