"Can you sing me that pie song again?"
Play / pauseJavaScript is required.0:000:00volumemenu"Can you sing me that pie song again?"< previous> nextI’ve returned again to the task of sorting through my various bits of sound scattered...
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We’ve had the better part of a month with our new Home Depot window fans. The verdict: thumbs up.The 9 inch blades suck in a good quantity of air, and with the pleasantly cool nights we’ve been having...
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This Will Be My Last Post Pushed to Facebook and Twitter
Back in October of 2014 I made a presentation on behalf of the PEI Home and School Federation to the Prince Edward Island Standing Committee on Education. In the question and answer session after my...
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Advice from Warren Ellis if you’re attending Comic-Con, from his excellent weekly email newsletter, Orbital Operations:If you’re going to San Diego, buy hand sanitiser, gallons of it, and some...
View ArticleI Joined the PEI Writers' Guild
I joined the PEI Writers’ Guild yesterday.The workshop I attended – How to Get Published– was my second Guild event of the year (the first was the launch of J. J. Steinfeld’s book in January).They are...
View ArticleSonia Painchaud on Victoria Row
Play / pauseJavaScript is required.0:000:00volumemenuSonia Painchaud on Victoria Row< previous> nextAt this hour, Sonia Painchaud, an estimable musician, is playing on Victoria Row as part of the...
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The Summer of Cold Brew
This is the summer of cold brew coffee in Charlottetown.In our house this was brought on by the introduction of a Japanese Hario Water Brew Coffee Pot, ordered from Amazon in March. We coarse-grind up...
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Wordstar 2000 and Prince Edward Island
When I started working with the Province of PEI on its website in 1995, Wordstar 2000 was the word processor used by most public servants in the province.Within a few years it was largely replaced by...
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Russians Have Driven the Teutons Across the Lipa
If there was every a headline from The Guardian that could also be a secret password to gain admission to an underground club, this is it.The Guardian | 1916 | History | Secret Passwords
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International Great Lakes Datum
Given that I was born on one side of Lake Ontario and grew up on the other side, you might say I have the Great Lakes in my blood.And even more so because my father, a nearshore sedimentologist, was...
View ArticleFrom Little Pigs to Friendly Water Buffaloes
Play / pauseJavaScript is required.0:000:00volumemenuFrom Little Pigs to Friendly Water Buffaloes< previous> nextMany, many years ago I happened to be present on the day that Stefan Kirkpatrick...
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A Few Updates to the Blog
A few minor updates here.First, due both to a longstanding request from my friend Oliver Baker, and to meet my own needs when using the 17 years of blog posts as personal reference (i.e. “what was I...
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Seeking Emancipation from Evernote
My friend Ton and I are engaged in parallel but otherwise uncoordinated efforts to, as Ton describes it for himself, “reconfiguring my online routines to increase privacy safeguards, and bring more of...
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Charlottetown's War on Time Uniformity
The Guardian reported on March 7, 1956 that the PEI Federation of Agriculture, in its annual report to the Legislature, “used strong language in denouncing the municipalities for violating the Time...
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Why do we still have summer hours?
It is standard practice here on Prince Edward Island for government offices to use special, earlier “summer hours.”The City of Charlottetown describes its hours as follows:At its March 2016 Council...
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65 Elizabeth II
My research on the history of time on Prince Edward Island took me to the Government Services Library on Monday.This little library is one of my favourite branches of the Island’s Public Library...
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New London: The Lost Dream
Since I joined the Publishing Committee of Island Studies Press I’ve had the opportunity to read many interesting manuscripts. The first of these to come to publication happens to be by my friend John...
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"The Spirit of Charlottetown"
Catherine just installed her latest piece – “The Spirit of Charlottetown” – on the back wall of Receiver Coffee in Charlottetown. The piece is a collaboration with glass artist BJ Sandiford; Catherine...
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My Great-Grandparents and the Matheson Fire of 1916
Since the launch of IslandNewspapers.ca, the Robertson Library project to digitize the archives of The Guardian newspaper, I’ve been reading the 100-years-ago-today paper every day (you can do this...
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