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: ...

To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve ...

The salvation of any Island family with needle-averse children in recent years has been the “flu mist,” an alternate form of the yearly influenza vaccine that gets squirted into the nose rather than ...

Subsequent to my email from David Carey, Publisher of The New Yorker I received the following email from Jim Mate, VP - Retail Marketing, Conde Nast Publications:. We apologize for the difficulty that ...

Every time I visit Province House I find something new. This time it was the skylights, which I’d never noticed before. They run all the way from the second floor up to the third floor and the roof: ...

“Time to dry” is one of the significant limiting factors when you have just five days of press time, especially when multiple layers are involved. Yesterday, late in the day, the box design evolved to ...

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 ...

I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...

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 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 > ...

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 ...