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 utility of the pact isn’t statistical, though (output, rather than outcome): it’s been a nudge toward building a habit, and that nudge has become linked to being thirsty, and feeling the positive ...

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 ...

I use K-9 Mail on my Android phone as my email client. It’s ugly, inelegant, and quirky, but it works, and has all the functionality I need. One of its quirks is that if, under Account Settings > ...

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 ...

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 ...

I missed this when it was published in 2020: Paul MacNeill interviewed Fred Hyndman about his uncle, the businessperson and philanthropist Robert Cotton. From the transcript: Robert L. Cotton was a ...

Canadian Tire has now completely switched over to digital price tags, wireless e-ink shelf displays that show the item name, price, and barcode. Under the hood I imagine this both saves hundreds of ...

Johannes Kleske wrote an ode to Readwise, and, knowing Johannes to be both wise and organized, I dove in. Without bogarting his description of the app and its place in the digital ecosystem, Readwise ...

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 ...

You had to see this coming: Oliver and I walked the 1.3 km to Dairy Queen tonight after supper so as to throw off the shackles of my childhood and have Dilly Bars for dessert. And to engage in ...

In the April 2019 Prince Edward Island general election both the Green Party and PC Party platforms promised to incentivize electric vehicle purchases (“Create a purchase incentive for electric ...