On tonight’s edition of CBC Compass there was a story by Laura Meader on Oliver and Ethan.

Thanks to Laura, and to Dave Campbell (one of Oliver’s educational assistants) and Frances Squire (his homeroom teacher) for helping to tell their story.

And to Oliver and Ethan for putting up with all the “could you scratch his head a little more to the right” stage directions (a teachable moment in its own right: Oliver learned that news is storytelling, and is partly real real and partly simulated real).

With the new synergized CBC, it was wall to wall Ethan and Oliver today: in addition to Compass, a version of the story aired on Island Morning on the radio, another version on the local news, and yet another on the CBC website. We need to go into seclusion now.

I had KKP print up some PDF extracts of OpenStreetMap maps of Charlottetown this afternoon.

And so here I sit in Receiver Coffee looking at a map showing Receiver Coffee.

Come see them tonight at the Delta Hotel from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

I’m talking about OpenStreetMap tonight, and I thought it would be useful to have some cards to pass out to remind people of the web address. Fortunately, I own a printing press. I really hope the ink dries in time!

Every board I’ve sat on in recent memory has grappled with the issues raised in this article.

I always ask, at my first meeting, what the consensus on sharing discussions is, and how widely the minutes will be distributed. I have a strong personal belief in 100% transparency but I know enough from the conversations that have resulted to know not everyone shares that belief, and that some feel that the prospect of transparency inhibits free-flowing discussion.

See also Chatham House Rule and PEI Home and School Federation board minutes (which we publish online after they are approved at the following meeting).

We’re going to experience almost every weather condition today in Charlottetown: clear, partly cloudy, cloudy, light snow, heavy snow and rain.

And the wind is going to do a 180 as the day progresses and the temperature climbs from -11°C to 2°C.

(Screen shots from Forecaster, a nice little Android app that uses Forecast.io data).

I ordered a Rii wireless mini keyboard last week for $23 from Amazon and it arrived today.

I plugged it into the Raspberry Pi that we run Kodi on and, presto, now I have a supercharged remote control for our homebrew media centre.

Citizenship edge case:

I was born on an airplane while it was flying over the USA. Do I have a claim to US citizenship?

Answer: Maybe.

Hey, look, my picture was in the paper on Friday, raking the snow from our roof.

If you’re looking for a roof rake, I highly recommend the Garant Yukon model. It costs about $45 and has stood up to a winter and a half of punishment.