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Reboot was my gateway to cultivating a love of Europe, an easy facility with Europe, and a network of European friends.
Every time I visit Province House I find something new. This time it was the skylights, which I’d never noticed before. They run all the way from the second floor up to the third floor and the roof: ...
The magazine section at our local Indigo has been condensed over recent months: a substantial section of magazine racks has ...
I followed up by asking ChatGPT to give me a robots.txt file that includes all of the bots, and I’ve added that to this site’s robots.txt (leaving out some friendly user-agents like NetNewsWire).
I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...
Because I was raised in an era when we were willing to conceive of mobile devices as servers as much as clients, it’s always bothered me that the ability to mount an Android phone’s storage on a ...
Order bread, coffee beans and meals for curbside pickup or $5 delivery in Charlottetown. Order by 9:00 a.m. Wednesday for Friday delivery.. It’s a win-win-win: Receiver gets business, you get food, ...
Prompted by Aaron Parecki’s efforts, I set out to conjure up a system to set my Slack status when I’m in a Zoom meeting. Like this: The secret sauces turned out to be: Slack status updater, a ...
I’m forever looking for ways to make finding library books easier, and recently I found something that I use almost every day, a “shortcut” for iOS and macOS that let’s me easily search the PEI Public ...
Was in that building too many times to count. In addition to the haircut (less frequent then compared with now), CFCY was in this building until it moved across the street to 141 Kent in 1981.
We dipped our toes in the waters of vinyl this spring: I was gifted a collection of LP s, and the loan of a portable turntable, to see if we could muster what it would take to replace Spotify et al ...