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Peace
Sometime between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time last night a peace sign miraculously appeared on the lawn of the Yankee Publishing campus in Dublin, NH, something captured on the webcam.
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Night Drive
Still one of my favourite musical moments on Prince Edward Island: Garnet Rogers at the Trailside Café in Mount Stewart in the fall of 2007. For reasons I cannot recall I was the emcee. The night ended...
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Basler Papiermühle
Although it was overshadowed by our visit to Tipoteca the following week, it was not only the Italian take on the printing museum that we experienced during our trip to Europe: our first destination,...
View ArticlePlazes + Yahoo Query Language
It’s been awhile since I turned my attention toward Plazes: since its acquisition by Nokia several years ago there’s been no evolution of the application, and I’ve been expecting Nokia to quietly pull...
View Article2011 Charlottetown Area Levee Schedule
Here’s is the 2011 levee schedule for January 1, 2011 for Charlottetown and area. If you’re new to all of this and want to give it a try, read How to Levee. And if I’ve missed anything, please leave a...
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Empire Theatres Mobile Ticketing
Back in the 1990s when you thought of Empire Theatres you’d picture a pokey regional film exhibitor with tiny, cramped theatres and a bad eye for picking films. Things have changed: Empire has expanded...
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Peter Pan Corner 2.0
Not sure what stage this re-imagining of the Peter Pan Corner in Charlottetown is at, and whether it’s a Peter Pan in name only, without the hamburgers, or not.
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Stopping Virulent Homburgism
CBC Compass broke the story last night that the Charlottetown Area Development Corporation has been secretly developing a plan to extend the Queen Parkade across through to University Avenue, tearing...
View ArticleSpy Glasses
When Oliver and I spent the afternoon along together last month in Munich, we found ourselves in the gift shop of the BMW Museum. While most of what we found there was product for the BMW aficionado,...
View ArticleSurviving the Airport
Anyone who has flown to Charlottetown from Montreal is familiar with the remote bunker to which Charlottetown-bound passengers are consigned by Air Canada, forced to crowd into a cattle yard-like...
View ArticleDecember in Toronto
From the interesting this town is small blog that Bruce turned me onto last week comes a pointer to this video from Millefiore Clarkes, who gets bonus points for naming her website...
View Articlereboot 7 redux
I’ve been feeling nostalgic for the reboot7 conference back in 2005, rereading the posts I wrote back then. It was such an awakening, on so many levels. In late February I’m heading back to Berlin for...
View ArticlePictorial Webster’s
I’m very late to the party with this, but man-oh-man was this an amazing project.
View ArticleThe Inviolable Laws of the Workday
There’s a great article in the New York Times today titled Where Do All the Cabs Go in the Late Afternoon? which cites the following as the reason that taxi cab shifts switchover between 4:00 p.m. and...
View ArticleThe Bhutanese Make Lunch
One of the great gifts we’ve received at Prince Street School this year is a large community of Bhutanese and Chinese students whose parents are becoming very involved in Home and School activities....
View ArticleMy Crazy Nexxtech USB Headset
I’ve been using a cheap Nexxtech-brand USB headset with my MacBook for several years now. I bought it at The Source (née Radio Shack) for under $20.00 and I like it: it’s light, the microphone boom...
View ArticleWhat's good on Netflix Canada...
To my surprise, Netflix Canada has been serving up enough interesting stuff to keep us on the hook for the $8.00 a month subscription. Indeed if they continue to expand their selection and add more...
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An Act to Provide for the Prohibition of Certain Public Gatherings
This April marks the fortieth anniversary of the passage of An Act to Provide for the Prohibition of Certain Public Gatherings by the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly, a law considered and...
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