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OpenStreetMap & Cartographica
My first issue of Cartographica arrived in the mail this week and I was thrilled to see that the cover is an OpenStreetMap of Munich using the Stamen Watercolor tiles, with a Creative Commons license...
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Making Drupal Email Fields Keyboard Friendly
Olletweeted this morning:@ruk I use yr Comment fieldset on iPhone. Email input field does not change keyboard layout to the email-positive one. Can HTML5 attrs?What Olle means is that when he’s...
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Ethan at the Dentist
A couple of years ago, just after Ethan joined our family, Oliver needed to have a tooth extracted. Ethan came with him. I just found a photo that Catherine took of Ethan and Oliver together in the...
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Learn to OpenStreetMap on Feb. 4, 2016
I’m hosting a Learn to OpenStreetMap table at the City of Charlottetown’s Inspired City event on February 4, 2016 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Delta Prince Edward Hotel. It’s free, and everyone...
View ArticleGoing Secure. Or All the Images
I’m in the midst of a plan to migrate this site to a secure server – https instead of http– and as part of that plan I need to ferret out all the embedded images that are called from non-secure hosts,...
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professor ruk
Next month I’ll be a guest lecturer in the University of Prince Edward Island course Philosophy 105: Technology, Values and Science, a course described like this for prospective students:This course...
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Peak Juice Bar
With the move of juice bar Rawsome into the old Dynamic Fitness space on Queen Street, directly beside juice bar Freshii, we have, I believe, reached Peak Juice Bar in downtown Charlottetown.Let’s use...
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I’ve been playing The Dictionary Game (who knew it had another name?) for years; it’s second only to charades in the Pantheon of party games in my book.My friend Stephen Southall sent me a recipe for...
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Charlottetown Transit Update
You may recall that I’ve been working on massaging Charlottetown-area transit information into open data suitable for feeding to things like Google Transit.I’ve made good progress. There’s now a draft...
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Roof Raking in The Guardian
Hey, look, my picture was in the paper on Friday, raking the snow from our roof.If you’re looking for a roof rake, I highly recommend the Garant Yukon model. It costs about $45 and has stood up to a...
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Birth While Flying over USA
Citizenship edge case:I was born on an airplane while it was flying over the USA. Do I have a claim to US citizenship?Answer: Maybe.
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My New Tiny Keyboard
I ordered a Rii wireless mini keyboard last week for $23 from Amazon and it arrived today.I plugged it into the Raspberry Pi that we run Kodi on and, presto, now I have a supercharged remote control...
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All Weather Day
We’re going to experience almost every weather condition today in Charlottetown: clear, partly cloudy, cloudy, light snow, heavy snow and rain.And the wind is going to do a 180 as the day progresses...
View Article"Managing Defiance on a Nonprofit Board"
Every board I’ve sat on in recent memory has grappled with the issues raised in this article.I always ask, at my first meeting, what the consensus on sharing discussions is, and how widely the minutes...
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The Joy of Owning the Means of Production
I’m talking about OpenStreetMap tonight, and I thought it would be useful to have some cards to pass out to remind people of the web address. Fortunately, I own a printing press. I really hope the ink...
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Maps on Paper
I had KKP print up some PDF extracts of OpenStreetMap maps of Charlottetown this afternoon.And so here I sit in Receiver Coffee looking at a map showing Receiver Coffee.Come see them tonight at the...
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Oliver and Ethan on Compass
On tonight’s edition of CBC Compass there was a story by Laura Meader on Oliver and Ethan.Thanks to Laura, and to Dave Campbell (one of Oliver’s educational assistants) and Frances Squire (his homeroom...
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