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The Heatmap of My Life
Google Maps for Android has a feature that has been alternatively referred to as “Latitude” “Location History” and “Timeline” that allows me to drop a constant stream of digital breadcrumbs marking my...
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Electric Lawnmower Acid Test
After a lifetime of combative relationships with gasoline-powered lawnmowers (and, by times, those that would force me to use them), I cannot do sufficient justice to the joy I have found in this...
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Leonhard's New Menu
After a few years of forgetting to go to Leonhard’s, a café just up the corner and around the bend from our house, I’ve started dropping in again, from time to time. As I did today. Where I encountered...
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The Bell Tower Job
There are a lot of reasons to take on a job: love, money, fame, power.Today’s job, however, I took on almost entirely because it afforded me the opportunity to see inside the bell tower of...
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My friend Catherine Hennessey has called me twice in the past week, claiming to have heard me talking about rabbits on CBC Radio. It turns out that, in celebration of its 400th episode, CBC’s Spark...
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Testing The Things Network in Charlottetown
I’ve spent the week experimenting with The Things Gateway and The Things Uno, with hopes that we might deploy them as the basis of a low-cost sensor network in Charlottetown. I’ve written about this on...
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"No checks of $100 million or more accepted "
I wonder how often this presents a practical impediment.IRS | 1040
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Quilt Raffle Tickets
When I agreed to make up the tickets for this year’s Kindred Spirits Quilt Guild raffle, I bit off a little more than my time would allow to print on the letterpress (they need 1,500 tickets,...
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Airport Success!
I am so enormously proud of Oliver for breezing through airport security this morning like it was the most natural thing in the world.This was a Herculean effort for him, and the culmination of 18...
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New CACF Room
If you take the elevator from the main concourse at Toronto Union Station down to the GO Train concourse, you pass a room marked “New CACF Room.”Croatian American Charitable Foundation? Common...
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One Passenger, One Fare
If you’re someone who requires a support person when you travel, that person can travel with you on Air Canada, WestJet and VIA Rail at no cost; our family has benefited from this several times, and...
View ArticleHolland College's Unfortunate Accessibility Policy
Oliver and I had the chance to learn about my nephew’s plans for community college this fall, where he’ll enter the Community Integration Through Co-Operative Education program at Georgian College in...
View ArticleMobile Phone Carrier Locking 2.0
My first couple of mobile phones were ones that I bought directly from Island Tel Mobility, the only local wireless carrier at the time on Prince Edward Island. I had to buy a phone from them because...
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Following William Lyon Mackenzie
Until last week, I’d conflated William Lyon Mackenzie and William Lyon Mackenzie King, despite them occupying different centuries. I wasn’t entirely off-base, as the former is the latter’s grandfather....
View ArticleA New Driveway for 100 Prince Street
Between our house at 100 Prince Street and our neighbours toward the water at 98 Prince Street is our driveway and, on their side of the property line, a strip of sidewalk that leads to their...
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drop around map paper
I have the benefit of having, in my friend Andrea Ledwell, a design-focused Toronto concierge who never steers me wrong.On last week’s trip to the city, Andrea again showed her expertise, first by...
View ArticlePie Auction and Pickle Contest
The The 24th Annual Fred Eaglesmith Charity Picnic, coming up in August, includes both a pie auction and a pickle contest. As well as music from Fred Eaglesmith and his retinue. The mind boggles.Fred...
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AI and Text Messages
Google is rolling out a lot of updates to its text messaging suite this month; most recent is the appearance of context-sensitive suggested replies. In this case it did a good job: its suggested...
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Auto-Detect Appointments in Emails
While we’re on the topic of (delightful | creepy) computer-assisted lifestyle logistics, I’ve just taken advantage of a feature that I’m pretty sure has been part of the Mac Mail application for a long...
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