CalDAV Saves the Night
We decided to make a family trip to see the latest X-Men movie tonight. To avoid the rush, I bought tickets online and had the ticket retrieval code delivered to my phone.When we arrived at the movie...
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Make yourself at home!
We have entered the era where the ability to “make yourself at home” is touted as a selling feature for tea bags.King Cole | Tea | Design
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Steve Rukavina, CBC News, Facebook
My brother Steve reports on a “mob hit” for CBC News in Montreal. On Facebook.He is the living embodiment of the “convergence” that we’ve all been talking about since 1995.Family | Facebook | Journalism
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Where should we start counting, 0 or 1?
Here’s something you might do when you’re writing a computer program:$months = array("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec");This happens to be a bit of the...
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Running a 30 year old BASIC program on my Mac
One aspect of our shared childhood that my brothers and I all remember clearly is The Budget.We were never completely sure what it meant, but we all remember our parents talking about it, and we...
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Blogging by Email
I’ve been making a concerted effort – although, to date, with somewhat lackluster results – to wean myself from Twitter, Facebook, et al., given their increasingly low signal to noise ratio.Facebook’s...
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Top Fresh Asian Market
Spending time in Berlin with my friend Morgan reignited my interest in learning more about Chinese cooking. To the point where, sitting in Morgan’s living room, I ordered a copy of Every Grain of Rice...
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Mail from Mainz
I’m not sure how Rukavina became Rukàvinà, but, setting that aside, my colleagues at the Internationale Gutenberg-Gesellschaft in Mainz know how to give good envelope.Gutenberg Society | Germany | Mail
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Bookmark In Situ
Granite Island is the subject of the next The Happy Reader issue so I got myself a copy. And, now that the ink is dry, I have a bookmark.
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The New Tree's First Day
For the benefit of future residents of 100 Prince Street, reading this on your holoreaders, here’s a photo of the replacement tree that was planted the City of Charlottetown on Monday, May 30, 2016 in...
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I Own a Stethoscope!
We visited the new Princess Auto store in Charlottetown for the first time tonight (it opened yesterday).We had little idea what to expect. And even after visiting the store I can’t tell you exactly...
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Torrential Rain
Play / pauseJavaScript is required.0:000:00volumemenuTorrential Rain< previous> nextI landed in Boston 3 hours ago and it’s been pouring rain since.Things died down a little as I stopped for...
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I had the lucky chance to be able to share coffee with an insightful group of people last week, most of them dietitians, to talk about school food.At one point in our conversation I admitted that I...
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It's Me! On the Almanac Webcam!
The more passionate among fans of The Old Farmer’s Almanac can sometimes be seen posing in front of the Almanac.com Webcam to create a souvenir of their drive through the Almanac’s home here in Dublin,...
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In Preparation for Embarkation
Back in the early 1990s, shortly after moving to Prince Edward Island, Catherine and I had our first occasion to take the Borden ferry to the mainland, as part of a trip to Halifax to visit...
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Prince Edward Island Does Open Data
Without any fanfare, the Province of Prince Edward Island launched a new website today, PrinceEdwardIsland.ca, and the most exciting aspect of the new site is that it telegraphs the Province’s plans...
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The Dog Stares Out Sea
If Ethan ever records an album, this will be the cover image.Ethan
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