Pete's Design Patterns for Welcoming Events
I am frequently infuriated by the lack of attention paid by event organizers to creating events that are inclusive to all. While I recognize that event-making is complicated and that event staff are...
View ArticleMake More Gerry
Few people have been as selflessly helpful to me in recent years as Gerry Hopkirk has.I first met Gerry when he facilitated a planning session for the L.M. Montgomery Land Trust. He took us through an...
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Love Fades: A Poem
I accidentally left a 4em space under the type. This is what resulted.Letterpress | Poetry
View ArticleThe Peter and Oliver Podcast: EasyLife Edition
Play / pauseJavaScript is required.0:000:00volumemenuThe Peter and Oliver Podcast: EasyLife Edition< previous> nextOliver and I spent a lot of time today talking about an app that could be used...
View ArticleOpen Data and the University
I’m scheduled to make a presentation on open data to the Governance and Appeals Committee of the University of Prince Edward Island Board of Governors on Tuesday. The committee is interested in the...
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The Final 500 Kilometers
Oliver started grade 10 at Colonel Gray High School today, his first year of high school, and the first of his last three years in the public school system. As we have every day since kindergarten, we...
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Updating Colonel Gray in OpenStreetMap
My habit regarding OpenStreetMap edits is to dive into improving the map for places that are new to me. After ignoring Colonel Gray Senior High School since we moved to Charlottetown 23 years ago, it’s...
View ArticleSchool Inspection Reports Archive
I mentioned yesterday that I’d been able to find a detailed floor plan of Colonel Gray High School in the school inspection report that resulted from the 2010 identification of mould and moisture...
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The Field of Words
I completed the principal printing for my contribution to the Sonnets 2016 project on the weekend. I reasoned that, given that the words are to be crammed up inside a library catalogue drawer together...
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
With apologies to John Muir, who wrote an excellent book of the same name, my mechanic Dave and I are engaged, it seems, in a wordless project to keep my 2000 Volkswagen Jetta alive.We are aided in...
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On Television
Back in June, when visiting with my colleagues at The Old Farmer’s Almanac, I naively said something like “if you ever need anyone in Canada to help with promotion of the 225th edition in the fall,...
View ArticleThe Clip Show
When I last wrote, earlier today, I was between a television appearance and a radio appearance, parts of my visit to Halifax to talk about the 2017 Old Farmer’s Almanac.The day has continued to be...
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Evacuation Day
The day I happened to be in Halifax this week happened to be the day that all Prince Edward Island schools were evacuated, so Catherine, bless her soul, bore the brunt of consequences-management.While...
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Mr. Van Dyke's Wardrobe Furnished By Botany 500
I was, as a child, always intrigued by the end credits of the TV shows we watched that mentioned the providers of the stars’ outfits. For The Dick Van Dyke show, for example, it was always Mr. Van...
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Rural Internet Access Town Hall
Robert Morrissey was Minister of Economic Development in the Catherine Callbeck government in the early 1990s when I began work on the first website of the provincial government. As such, he was the...
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Where are you, Sonnet No. 99?
I shipped Sonnet № 99 off to Oxford last Tuesday by UPS, with a promise that it would arrive there today.It did not.Here’s the latest UPS tracking information for the parcel:The UPS call centre tells...
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Why you should have a voicemail PIN
I’m traveling in New England this week, and having reconciled myself to the fact that most travel SIM cards I’ve purchased in past result in no mobile service, I’ve just left my Canadian Virgin Mobile...
View ArticleReal vs. Fake
Play / pauseJavaScript is required.0:000:00volumemenuReal vs. Fake< previous> nextCompelling real political protest in front of Province House meets a fake Father of Confederation and his...
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TeacherNet: In Memoriam
Four years ago my friend Ken Williams and I cooked up a plan, which we dubbed TeacherNet, to provide teachers at Prince Street Elementary School with high quality wireless Internet. As I detailed here...
View ArticleFour Minutes of Perfect Television
For the past two years I’ve been living with a heightened thrum of emotional complexity.The greatest survival advice I’ve received came from my occasional psychologist, who reassured me, in a moment of...
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