Rökkurró – Sólin mun skína
Iceland’s musicians (see also sigur rós) continue to be some of the countries most powerful ambassadors. Witness this video from Rökkurró: makes me want to go and hang out in a barn in the Icelandic...
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Debossing
You might think that “debossing” is some sort of revolutionary employment tactic. And perhaps it is. But it’s also “the reverse of embossing, or the use of heated dies to stamp or press a depressed...
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Soupy Saturday for Prince Street Breakfast Program
Soupy Saturday Back Alley Music Saturday, January 22, 2011 Noon to 3:00 p.m. I support school breakfast programs – where any student who wants to can get a free breakfast, every school day, before...
View ArticlePiers Morgan Tonight
Before he assumed the Larry King spot on CNN earlier this week my only exposure to Piers Morgan was through his appearance on the celebrity version of The Apprentice. While that show was a showcase for...
View ArticleTimes Tables
Skype chatting to Oliver later this afternoon about problems he’s having with the “three times table.” Me: What do you think could make it easier to figure out the times tables? Oliver: A pencil that...
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Toadstool Books
Sometimes you come across a book shop that seems, somehow, to exist in a parallel universe, with an entirely different set of books, organized in some novel way, and with a variety that makes book...
View ArticleGuidelines for Chatting
Oliver and I came up with the following “Guidelines for Chatting” together, after encountering some challenges; they’ve worked well. Do not type “hello hello hello hello.” Once is enough. Be patient....
View ArticleNotes from the Road
I’m just back from a week on the road, one of my quarterly visits to my colleagues at Yankee. Here are some notes from the road, in reverse chronological order: Flying out of Boston’s Logan Airport on...
View ArticleL.L. Bean Guarantee
About five years ago Catherine bought me an L.L. Bean winter jacket for Christmas, an olive green (officially “dill”) Gore-Tex shell with a warm removable lining and a pleasant array of zippered...
View ArticleTalking Crosswalk of Death
Upside: it’s nice that Charlottetown’s newest pedestrian signals talk to you; much better usability than the anonymous bleeps and bloops and other “accessible” signals have, it would seem. Downside:...
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My Yankee Office
For a long time I’d end up in a different “spare” office at Yankee every time I visited, but for the last couple of years I’ve settled nicely into the “crow’s nest” office high atop the Sagendorph...
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The Premier and Me (and Oliver)
Regular readers may recall the annual photo-with-the-Premier that’s been taken since 2004 at the Premier’s Levee at the Confederation Centre of the Arts on New Year’s Day. Well, the 2011 photo arrived...
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One More Business Card
I know, I know, I promised to stop it with the business cards, calling cards and other letterpress personal ephemera. But I decided I needed to put the Reinvented logo engraving to a practical use. And...
View ArticleMetered Internet: We Have Only Ourselves to Blame
There has been much hand wringing this week here in Canada over the decision by the CRTC that allows large network operators to charge their wholesale customers – generally smaller Internet service...
View ArticleT4
Being a corporation with employees, Reinvented has to file payroll summaries – T4s – with Canada Revenue before the end of February every year. If memory serves correctly, in the first 12 years of our...
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Timelines
I love timelines. I’ve maintained my own timeline in the Rukapedia for the last 5 years and it’s proved an invaluable tool for helping me keep track of my personal history – where I’ve lived, how old I...
View ArticleEmbedding OpenStreetMaps
I’ve long looked for an easy way to drop OpenStreetMap maps into another site, and although there are myriad “under the hood” ways of doing this none of them ever had the “embed” ease-of-use of...
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Berlin Sidewalks
Many of sidewalks of Berlin, like many cities in Europe, are constructed of stones rather than poured concrete. While in North America we use “cobblestone streets” as a way of achieve a sort of faux...
View ArticleA Love Letter to Betahaus
Everything about betahaus, the coworking space where I’ve worked for the past five weeks, shifted for me a few weeks ago when I saw Christoph Fahle arrive for his day at the office. Christoph is one of...
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Experimentarium
On the train yesterday Oliver and I counted 18 science museums that we’ve visited over the years, from Boston to Košice, Genoa to Lisbon. Given that I spent an entire semester of high school embedded...
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