That’s the headline for this CBC story this morning. I thought, upon first seeing it, that they were reporting about property development issues. But they weren’t.

YSlow.

Bob Wiseman and Bob Snider play The Haviland Club in Charlottetown tomorrow night, July 26. They are both brilliant musicians and I expect it will be a show worth attending; all the more so given the venue.

Remember: it’s Wednesday, and if you live within walking or cycling distance of the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market you’ve got an interesting option for lunch.

I update my Plazes location and status many times a day. Which does a good job at updating my Plazes contacts about where I’m at. But I’ve also got Jaiku friends. And Twitter friends. And Facebook friends. Surely there should be a way of having my Plazes presence information trickle elsewhere.

Fortunately this is made not-too-difficult (if not exactly painless) by the APIs available for each of the above (API = “way of talking to a service using a computer program, not a web browser”). And so is born PresenceRouter, an AppleScript Studio application that grabs my Plazes presence and does the trickling.

So I use the Plazer as the “mothership” and update my status message:

I fire up the PresenceRouter, and it connects to Plazes, grabs my status, and sends it elsewhere:

The end result is that my status is now echoed to Plazes, Jaiku, Twitter and Facebook:

Whether it makes sense to do all this client-side is up for discussion, but in the meantime it lets me keep a toe dipped in many presence waters without having to wildly thrash about updating each every time I walk across the street.

No code to release yet as it’s all very fresh, but I will soon.

Back in June, after an excellent dinner and drink with Olle and Luisa, Olle walked me to the train back to my hotel. We spontaneously each took a photo of the other once I was inside the train, Olle with his Nokia N73 and me with my Nokia N70. Olle’s photo appeared in his Flickr stream this morning, providing a counterpoint to my version:

Looking at the two photos hurts my head: I can’t seem to easily figure out who took each one.

OzBus operates “a regular overland service for backpackers travelling between London and Sydney.” It takes 12 weeks and costs about $7800 Canadian.

We took our inaugural trip of the season out to the Brackley Drive-in Theatre last night, stopping at The Lobster Claw for dinner as usual (the roast turkey dinner is as good as it ever was).

Bob has been busy this season at the drive-in: there’s new lighting for the canteen, renovated washrooms, a new coat of “drive-in paint” on the screen (is there anything Northumberland Paints can’t do?), and a completely automated projection system with its own “clicker” just like you’d use to start your VCR at home (well, not quite just like that — it’s considerably snazzier).

Coming out of the canteen with the popcorn chicken in hand, Bob asked if I wanted to “do the honours” and start the show myself. I ran back to the car, dumped the chicken in Catherine’s lap, and ran back with Oliver to let him do the honours. Which, given all the new automation of the place, simply involved climbing up on a step ladder and pressing “Start Show.” The fan came on, the lights dimmed, the projector started up, and the show was on. Magic.

Coming up next week is a double bill of Ratatouille and Transformers that might be the best time to take a trip out all summer if you’ve got kids.

While waiting for Oliver to finish up with drum lessons yesterday I recorded a minute of the sounds of drum kits being tested and cool bohemian drummy types milling about.

Nutrition labels for buses. An excellent idea: