Dr. Glendenning died this week. On the spectrum of thoughts about how we educate our children (and ourselves), there was no one I was more aligned with. And there was no person who had more lasting ...

There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away. It’s not the guilt of having done something wrong, exactly. It’s more like the feeling of walking ...

Via University of Winds, a link to Open Infrastructure Map, useful here on Prince Edward Island for seeing a map of Maritime Electric and Summerside’s electricity infrastructure.

Lisa writes about Leona’s Fox, the varied edition of reduction prints she’s been working on this month and finished up yesterday: For the past few weeks I have been picking away (well, carving away) a ...

When Lisa and I were in the first flush of new love, Mondays would see a flurry of texts from me to her, a deluge of sparks and inspirations, pointers and exclamations, all to fill the hole that was ...

If there’s a lesson about getting on in prison it’s that everywhere there are human communities that don’t rest on authority and coercion and that people form their own neworks of mutual support.

There was a promo in regular rotation on CTV many years ago for the morning show Canada AM that featured Ed Robertson from Barenaked Ladies responding to a question about whether the band regretted ...

We watched the documentary Between the Mountain and the Sky last night, and were quite moved by it: From the Duplass Brothers, Between the Mountain and the Sky follows CNN Hero Maggie Doyne and Top ...

Prince Edward Island electricity load exceeded 400 MW for the first time ever today, measured at 5:44 p.m (chart). The temperature at the time was -16ºC, with a wind chill of -21ºC. The previous peak ...

Bookbinder JS is a heartbreaking work of genius. It’s a standalone JavaScript-based application for imposition. If you have a PDF file that you want to bind into a book, this is the tool you want.

A postscript to my Amazon post from earlier: here’s a chart showing my annual order volume and total spend from Amazon from 2001 to 2025: I generated the chart by ...

I received the sad news this morning that my friend Allan Rankin has died. I was introduced to Allan many years ago: he and Roy Johnstone and I got together to see about having me make websites for ...