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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 ...
Most likely this will involve a radial head replacement with titanium. It’s a simple surgery, done under anaesthetic, that takes about 30 minutes. It’s got good outcomes. All of this is contingent on ...
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 ...
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 ...
Some helpful advice from the postmistress at the Charlottetown Post Office this morning. If you have standard stamps, which right now are $1.44 singly or $1.24 in books, these can be used like this ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Some months ago I discovered Incline Press, a fine press publisher in the UK, and its founder Graham Moss, who found his way to printing through the same Adana press that I did: Spine labels are the ...
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 ...
Ten years ago, at pei.consuming.ca, I released a web app that displayed the current Prince Edward Island electricity load, and the proportion of that load being met by wind energy generation. Ten ...
Earlier this year I added an “imported” column to the pei.consuming.ca web app. I was pulling this figure from the New Brunswick System Operator System Information page. I’ve since learned that this ...