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Localizing my Firefox OS Foursquare Checkin App 25 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
I created Checkin, my Firefox OS Foursquare checkin app, as much to learn about Firefox OS as to scratch my own checkin itch. The next step along this road was to “localize” the app: in short, to make...
Shutting Down the Elections PEI Operation: 17 Years of Elections on the Web 23 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
By the fall of 1996 I had been working on the website of the Province of Prince Edward Island for over a year and we were well on the way to expanding the site from its tourism-information roots to be...
We use a lot of electricity on Prince Edward Island, even in the summer... 22 Aug 2013 | 01:21 am
I have been archiving Prince Edward Island energy load and generation data since November and I’ve created various tools, like this graph and this gauge and this mobile app to put this data in my “per...
People Acting Quickly 20 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
One of the more satisfying aspects of my Mail Me Something project is getting to see things I’ve printed on the letterpress popping up all over the world as envelopes arrive, are unsealed, and photos ...
"City businessman ticked that bank is frozen in time" 20 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
This isn’t quite getting hoist on my own petard, but apropos of What makes you a “well-known businessman” in The Guardian?, I note that of the 53 references to my various exploits that have appeared i...
MacBook Air Repaired 20 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Oliver’s MacBook Air broke. I got frustrated trying to get it repaired. I emailed Tim Cook at Apple about my frustration. Tim Cook’s office replied, and took on the case. We drove to Moncton. Oliver’s...
What makes you a "well-known businessman" in The Guardian? 19 Aug 2013 | 05:12 pm
In an article on August 16, 2013, The Charlottetown Guardian newspaper referrred to Tim Banks as a “well-known businessman” (emphasis mine): The provincial government is lending a total of just over ...
Walking to the Royalty Junction Wye 18 Aug 2013 | 04:46 am
I have long been curious about Royalty Junction, the spot north of Charlottetown where the east-west railway line met the Charlottetown railway line. I could never figure out why I never ended up driv...
0882 18 Aug 2013 | 04:09 am
There’s a lot of Arthole to love, but my deepest love is reserved for the piece by Donnalee Downe titled The Mailroom: 59 Love Letters. It really is 59 letters, 59 from-real-life-written-to-Donnalee ...
The Press-to-Shelf Movement 15 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
The coffee bags I designed and printed on Monday? On Tuesday morning they were on the shelf at Youngfolk & The Kettle Black on Richmond Street filled with coffee and ready for sale. I can’t tell you h...
