Introduction to LoRaWAN
This video introduction to LoRaWAN, in addition to being a great introduction to LoRaWAN, is also a great introduction to the ins and outs of sending data by radio. The explanation of the “link budget”...
View ArticlePEI Doodle Romp 2018
There is a gathering of people and their doodles this Saturday, June 23, 2018, at the PEI Humane Society’s dog park. It’s both a fundraiser for the Humane Society and a social gathering for people and...
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FOIPP Eating FOIPP's Tail
In February I made a written submission to government on its Modernize the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act paper.Today I received a letter requesting my views on releasing my...
View ArticleAnnotated Shell Script for Counting Blog Posts by the Week
Ton wants to count the number of blog posts he writes per week. I responded with a shell script, but without any documentation.Here’s the missing manual.First, the entire script:curl -s...
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Underground Business Society
Every Saturday morning at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market, after we have our smoked salmon bagel and coffee (or smoothie), we swing around to Lady Baker’s Tea, where we order up whatever the iced tea...
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Google Made me a Panorama
A project took me to the top of the Holman Grand this morning, and I took the opportunity to take some photos from different vantage points.By the time I got home, Google Photos had, automatically, and...
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On the Internet, Google Knows You're a Dog
Google Lens successfully identified Ethan as a Standard Poodle.At the withers was new to me; here’s what it means:The highest part of a horse’s back, lying at the base of the neck above the shoulders....
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Rounding Down
I’ve been migrating my corporate bookkeeping over to AccountEdge (the final chapter of a saga that started 12 years ago).One of the nice features of AccountEdge is that it automatically...
View ArticleStephen Fry Prints the Bible
This documentary presented by Stephen Fry about the Gutenberg printing press will teach you everything you need to know about modern printing.Letterpress | Gutenberg | Mainz | Stephen Fry
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Behold the Exoskeleton
On Friday afternoon I returned to the roof of the Holman Grand hotel to so some additional LoRaWAN gateway testing, and, as it was an absolutely stellar day, I took the opportunity to take a photo of...
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Phantom Phone Number
In the 2018 Prince Edward Island white pages—yes, the white pages still exist—you won’t find a listing for our house, or Catherine’s studio, or my office: we long ago made our numbers virtual ones that...
View ArticleStephen Fry on Oscar Wilde
I challenge you to tear yourself away from this captivating holding forth by Stephen Fry at Oxford once you start watching it.Among the things you will learn is the backstory to Oscar Wilde’s visit to...
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Photo of PEI's First Webserver
My friend Simon, engaging in some admirable proactive librarianship, passed along a clipping from the July 23, 1993 edition of The Guardian with a story headlined “Crafts Council going high tech,”...
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Inside the Province House Restoration
I received an invitation to attend a “stakeholders tour” of the Province House restoration this afternoon; I hold no office that entitles me to such an invitation, other than that of being a...
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The Other Club
The Other Club was founded in London in 1911 by Winston Churchill and F.E. Smith, reportedly after Churchill and Smith were passed over for membership in The Club.Twelve rules were drafted for the...
View ArticleRevisiting Consumed by Technology
A recent visit to the Internet Archive unearthed a cache of text and audio related to a summer series I presented in 1996 on CBC Prince Edward Island’s Island Morning that we called Consumed by...
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I Switched to Public Mobile
After my wireless provider, Eastlink Wireless, decided that it would only support phones purchased from it, I went looking for a new wireless provider.My first quandary was that Eastlink’s pricing–$40...
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Sketchbook Pace
The labels on my sketchbooks show considerable variation in sketching activity over the past year: the book I finished up today was one I started in February, 5 months ago.My pace has picked up...
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