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 ...

I felt even more kinship when I learned of the book that Graham crafted, following Kathryn’s death in 2020, Memento Mori : ...

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 ...

Tonight, echo of that, I’m overnight at Acadia University in Wolfville. It’s $85 a night, no breakfast included. But it’s ...

Lisa marks her birthday as the halfway point of summer, and as her birthday was this week, it seems like a good time to ...

The title of the book (and this post) is an homage to Just Mary Stories, a CBC Radio program that my mother listened to as a child; sufficient connection might exist only in my head to make it a ...

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 ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

Last week the Canadian Cartographic Association held its annual meeting here in Charlottetown. By way of a delightful cartographic coincidence, I made the acquaintance of the program chair, Roger ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you take the elevator from the main concourse at Toronto Union Station down to the GO Train concourse, you pass a room marked “New CACF Room.” Croatian American Charitable Foundation? Common ...