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Five Islands
I’m in the final stages (I hope) of a year-long project to produce sets of Prince Edward Island “Terms of Union Flash Cards.” Today was the day to start printing the envelopes. I started out with too...
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Terms of Union
Today was the day to overprint TERMSOFUNION in black over the red Prince Edward Island. See also Five Islands.Letterpress | Terms of Union
View Article2016 Charlottetown Area Levee Schedule
This is the 2016 New Years Day levee schedule for January 1, 2016 for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and area.As it’s still early yet, the schedule isn’t complete: I’m waiting to hear back from...
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Green Party Expenses as Open Data
In a laudable effort toward transparency and open data, the Office of the Third Party (the name bestowed on the Green Party in the Legislative Assembly) has released its expenses in comma-delimited...
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Cellar Trap Door Here
At the Lovell Litho & Publications plant in Montreal, home of the Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec.Signage
View ArticleAirport Security with Autism
We’ve been traveling in airplanes with Oliver since he was 2 months old. He loves to travel, is comfortable in different places — sleeping, eating, exploring — and travel is one of the defining shared...
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La bibliotheèque, la nuit
Last last week Oliver and my mother and I visited the exhibit La bibliotheèque, la nuit— “The Library at Night” – at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in Montreal.We weren’t really sure...
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Taking the AirPort Extreme out of the Cupboard Tripled my Bandwidth
In mid-2014, I switched the bandwidth provider here in the Reinventorium from Eastlink to Bell Aliant.While I’d previously been using an Apple AirPort Extreme wireless router hooked up to the Eastlink...
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Le Serpent
Five years ago in Montreal, on a trip to celebrate my brother Steve’s wedding, Catherine and Oliver and I had lunch at Cluny ArtBar on 257 rue Prince; I described the place like this:A little out of...
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Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec
Five years ago, on a walk through Old Montreal, I spotted a sign for Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec– the Printing Museum of Quebec. I didn’t have a chance, back then, to investigate what lay behind...
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Exporting Short URLs from Bitly to Drupal
I’ve been using Bitly.com as a URL-shortening service for many years, mostly via IFTTT in a recipe that automatically tweets my blog posts here and post links to them on Facebook.I took advantage of...
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Get your set of Terms of Union Cards!
For the last several months I’ve been working on printing a set of Prince Edward Island Terms of Union cards on my letterpress.There are 18 cards in the set, each one summarizing a point in the 1873...
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Saturday at the Market
Longtime readers will recall that, for as long as either of us can remember, Oliver and I have been going to the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings.I first wrote about this back in...
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Realigning the Trans Canada Highway in Tryon in OpenStreetMap
I’ve been spending time this fall volunteering with Bryson Guptill and his team at Island Trails to improve the representation of hiking trails on Prince Edward Island in OpenStreetMap (here’s a list...
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Campbell's Printing and the Highway
While we’re talking about Tryon and roads, I note for the record that the Tryon highway realignment plays in role in how I came to acquire my Golding Jobber № 8 printing press.The former owners of the...
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Open Seafood Pie
The Premier tweeted his Seafood Pie recipe. I turned it into open data.Fortunately, the Premier received this in the helpful spirit in which it was offered:Go forth and make pie!Premier | Prince Edward...
View ArticleBusting Data out of PDF Forms
For future reference, mostly my own.I was given a disk with almost 100 PDF files containing form data that I wanted to be able to analyze. Every one of the PDFs had an “owner password” assigned – a...
View ArticleOur First Christmas Eve on the Island
Catherine and I arrived on Prince Edward Island in the spring of 1993; our first Christmas Eve here was that December.We opted not to travel back to family in Ontario for the holidays; thus left to our...
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Tip the Day during the Holidays
Here’s a little holiday project I tried to spin on Twitter: in the days leading up to New Year’s Eve, when you’re in a position to tip your server, tip them a percentage equal to the day. 21% on...
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Falling, Raining, Pouring, Barfing
The time between Christmas and New Year’s Day, it seems from our experience, is always filled with the unexpected.Last year it was my father-in-law taking a tumble on a Charlottetown sidewalk and...
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