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Digital Moved
I managed to get the digital side of the Reinventorium moved today, with the generous help of my friend Ray, who popped over with his station wagon at exactly the right time.No bandwidth yet—the Bell...
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Well that was interesting...
The team from McQuaid’s came through yet again, and the 103 year old Golding Jobber № 8 has a new basement to call home.If you ever need something impossibly heavy moved in Charlottetown, I...
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I called. They were there.
For all the corporate merging and rebranding and offshoring that’s happened to what we now know as Bell Aliant, there are vestiges of Island Tel that show up from time to time, offering the kind of...
View ArticleChristine
I love everything about this video. The song. The choreography. The cinematography. The performance. Everything.If I could dance like that I would be so happy.Christine and The Queens | Music
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Edge Case
I spend a good portion of my working life, as all coders do, dealing with edge cases, those remote, seldom-seen corners of systems that confound original expectations. Discussion about edge cases often...
View ArticleParenting by Echo Drop-in
One of the amazing/creepy features of the Amazon Echo is that you can opt-in to allowing other Echo users to “drop in” on your Echo, and this establishes an instant audio connection between the two of...
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Things Node to Things Gateway to IFTTT to Google Sheet
I’m finally, at long last, in possession of a gateway from The Things Network, and so I’m ready to start laying the groundwork for an open sensor network in Charlottetown.What does this mean?Well,...
View ArticleMarch for Our Lives
Last night as he was going to bed, Oliver was frustrated that nobody had organized a PEI instance of the March for Our Lives that’s happening around the world today.I asked Oliver who he thought would...
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Next time I'll choose a lighter hobby...
After a valiant effort to move my many drawers of cold type myself yesterday, I called the experts at McQuaid’s back in to do it. As they hefted I could feel the years terraforming back onto my...
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Goodbye Reinventorium 1.0
I moved the last batch of stuff out of The Guild tonight, thus closing the books on Reinventorium 1.0 once and for all.Johnny and I moved into The Guild in January of 2012, so it’s 6 years and 2 months...
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2018 Halifax Highlights
Oliver and I spent the Easter weekend in Halifax; it was the tail end of his March Break. We drove over on Thursday night and returned on Sunday afternoon, packing a lot of fun and adventure into those...
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The Sackville Diversion
I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears repeating: the civilized way to drive from PEI to Halifax involves a stop for coffee in Sackville, New Brunswick.I’m the first to admit that this is...
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Heart Charlottetown
In Ottawa last month, at the celebration of the life of my late friend Laurie Kingston, each of the chairs in the Glebe Community Centre was adorned with a piece of knitting, created in Laurie’s...
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52
We’ve just finished an excellent birthday supper crafted by Catherine and Oliver, and so I officially turn 52 years old.We started with appetizers, moved on to shrimp tacos, and finished with a...
View ArticleA Daily Email Newsletter Supporting Active Island Citizenship
One of the good things to spring from the regrettable Plan B expressway development here on PEI some years ago was the PEI Citizens Alliance.And one of the great things about the PEI Citizens Alliance...
View ArticleSix Feet Under the Budget Lock-up
It’s budget day in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island today.I arrived for work at the new office in St. Paul’s Parish Hall to find some very serious looking people protecting the...
View ArticleThe 1,759 Things I Bought from Sobeys
Last month I requested and received data about my use of my Air Miles card in an access request to the company that manages the program. One of the things I learned from analyzing the data I received...
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Blood Pressure
Back in late February I went to see my family doctor about a suspicious-looking mole on my back. The mole turned out to be nothing to worry about, but when the doctor took my blood pressure before I...
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Composing and Printing Together At Last
When I was first learning the printing trade at the Peterborough Examiner, back in the early 1990s, I worked exclusively in the Composing Room. There we made up the pages for the newspaper each day,...
View ArticleHon. James Aylward Gets Interesting
By all accounts, Hon. James Aylward, Leader of the Official Opposition here in Prince Edward Island, is a capable politician: he seems well-respected by peers of all political stripes, and...
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