“Ok. Get up at 6:00 and have a cup of coffee, but don’t eat anything. Then stand by for a phone call.” Instructions both for ...

The good news is that nothing’s changed in Catherine’s bones: there’s no sign of any additional cancer in any additional bones, and the spots on the femur where cancer is thought to be present haven’t ...

While we’re on the topic of Ethan, my friend Heather Mullen, who is the best “snap a quick interesting photo on their phone” person I know, captured this shot of CBC’s Kerry Campbell about to do an ...

Since I migrated this blog to a Hetzner server, I’ve been paying attention to the “Graphs” tab of the server dashboard to see how the capacity of the server matches the traffic I’m expecting it to ...

If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your ...

Did you know there’s an open map of memorial benches? There weren’t any added on PEI yet, so I added Catherine’s bench in the Gardens of Hope, and the bench in Victoria Park in memory of Lisa’s ...

Book Information: Slessor, Tim. (1957), First Overland: The Story of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, The Companion Book Club, London.

Remember ALLEX and ELSIR and the Fish Points, two rabbit holes I fell into earlier in the week? Well part of my struggle for coming to understand this world of aeronautical waypoints has been my weak ...

I don’t understand the role of this Bridging humanity and efficiency video from Health PEI — is it marketing? celebration? politics? education? — but it’s well-produced, and uncommonly clear for ...

Since the launch of IslandNewspapers.ca, the Robertson Library project to digitize the archives of The Guardian newspaper, I’ve been reading the 100-years-ago-today paper every day (you can do this ...

In An app can be a home-cooked meal, Robin Sloan wrote about “home cooked” apps: I made a messaging app for, and with, my family. It is ruthlessly simple; we love it; no one else will ever use it. I ...

We had occasion to cancel Eastlink Internet service this month. And it took the entire month to do so. There’s no way to cancel online. There’s no way to email a request. The Eastlink toll-free number ...