Ed and ed
Julia Evans blogs about technology, and today’s post Batch editing files with ed is an excellent example of her clear-headed style.Like Julia, I’ve had a longtime aversion to the Unix ed editor, based...
View ArticleThe Source
Scotty Allen found the source of all the world’s consumer goods at a wholesale market in Yiwu, China. Watch.Strange Parts | China | Video
View ArticleBen Folds Composes Live
I learned a lot about music, and about orchestration, by watching this video of Ben Folds composing live with the National Symphony Orchestra.
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Sunset over Superstore
I’ve been a regular, loyal Sobeys customer for years. But a chance encounter with Rolling Meadow Dairy yogurt at Superstore a few weeks ago has led me to tentatively switch my allegiance: I’ve done our...
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Type High as a Map of Colonialism
My friend Martin returned to Prince Edward Island from his winter nesting grounds this month, and he came bearing the gift of a freshly-cast sample of printing type from the Musée de l’imprimerie in...
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Personal Netflix Analytics
Via Recomendo, a pointer to the Netflix page that shows you your entire viewing history, back the the very opening of your account.This, in turn, led me to this Chrome extension, which allows the data...
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Visualizing our Netflix Streaming Activity on a Calendar
Continuing on from my earlier post about Personal Netflix Analytics, I decided that I wanted to be able to visualize our Netflix streaming activity on a calendar. Here’s how I did it.I took the Netflix...
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When do we watch Netflix?
After seeing 8 years of our Netflix streaming activity day-by-day on a calendar, I got curious about what time of daywe most often stream, so I used the same raw data I used yesterday to find...
View ArticleStanching the Re-CompuServing of the Social Web
At the end of my post last week about weblogs and the GDPR I mentioned that Frank Meeuwsen had recorded a Pecha Kucha talk of mine at the Reboot conference in 2006. This, in turn, prompted a rumination...
View ArticleHealth in all Policies
From today’s PEI Citizens’ Alliance News:On May 1st, a most eloquent proposal to really focus on the health of people and society—Motion 40, “Encouraging government to adopt a ‘Health in all Policies’...
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Hand Cancelled
I mailed a postcard to a friend up the street and had it hand-cancelled at the Charlottetown Post Office; she generously took a photo of it when it arrived.The stamps are from a collection that was...
View ArticleMobile Home Parks and Cooperatives
On the same day that The Guardian reports on the plight of mobile home owners about to lose their rental real estate, the 99% Invisible podcast reports on a very similar situation in Utah that was...
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Catherine and Oliver at EDNA
Taken through a glass water bottle at EDNA. A satisfying supper had just been enjoyed by all.
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One if by land
The CBC is reporting that the Island’s two daily newspapers will be printed in Halifax starting this summer.With printing moving to Halifax, the papers will have to be transported across the...
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My Cool Girlfriend in her Cool New Eyeglasses
Gaudet Optical in Halifax comes through for our family again. By happenstance (or fate), Catherine selected frames from Anne & Valentine, who made the frames I bought here three years ago. Service...
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Old Dog, New Dog
Ethan went visiting today. Piccolo the lab is 12 weeks old. There was much suspicion but, ultimately, détente.Ethan | Piccolo | Cape Breton
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Sunset over Caribou
Classic PEI move: missed the 6:00 p.m. ferry home at Caribou by 10 minutes. Enjoyed fish & chips in Pictou in recompense. And then got to see the sunset over the 9:00 p.m. ferry.
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Constraints
Chef Brooks Headley, of Superiority Burger, on the agony and ecstacy of constraints:The spacial limitations are completely frustrating and effect every single second of every day. But at the same time...
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Jonas Prints
My friend Jonas was visiting this weekend, his first time on the Island in the 13 years I’ve known him. It was a lovely visit and we managed to pack a lot into his 36 hours here, including a night in...
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