Online from the Formosa Tea House
WiFi and lemon iced tea. Who could ask for anything more. SSID is formosateahouse. WiFi Access Point donated by my colleagues at silverorange.
WiFi and lemon iced tea. Who could ask for anything more. SSID is formosateahouse. WiFi Access Point donated by my colleagues at silverorange.
I incurred my first Prince Edward Island library fines today.
In the olden days — before May 1, 2004 — Prince Edward Island didn’t charge fines for overdue library books. You received a polite notice in the mail, or by email, telling you your book was overdue. And you brought it back.
That was then, this is now. Today I had to shell out just under $5.00 for an overdue book and an overdue VHS tape.
As much as I appreciated the novelty of PEI being fine-free, I don’t have a huge problem with paying penance for keeping materials longer than I should, especially if there’s evidence that this system generally keeps materials more available to everyone.
And I can always take comfort from the notion that the money from my fines will be used by the library for Good.
Except it isn’t. I learned today that money from library fines flows into general revenue. It goes to pay for potholes and MRI machines and wind turbines. And, I suppose, in some small, small way, to buy books. A small, small, small way.
That’s a shame.
Liberal candidate Shawn Murphy is scheduled to join us on Thursday, June 3 at 4:00 p.m. here at 84 Fitzroy Street, Charlottetown. Like our meetings with Will McFadden, Dody Crane and Darren Peters earlier in the week, this will be an informal opportunity to learn more about the candidate and his ideas. All are welcome.
Federal NDP candidate Dody Crane is coming to a gathering here at 84 Fitzroy Street in Charlottetown on Tuesday, June 1 at 4:00 p.m.. This will be an informal opportunity to learn more about Dody and her ideas, and for us to provide feedback to her. All are welcome. Please drop me a line if you’re going to be coming, so we can plan coffee capacity.
A reminder that Green Party candidate Will McFadden is dropping by here today at 2:00 p.m.
Here’s the latest update of the table listing candidate websites for the 2004 Federal Election on
Prince Edward Island. Comments below.
PARTY |
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Cardigan |
Weblog Windows 2000 Microsoft IIS Aliant | No Weblog Linux Apache ISN | No Weblog Linux Apache ISN | No Weblog Mac OS Lasso Newton |
Charlottetown |
No Weblog Linux Apache ISN | No Weblog Linux Apache ISN | Weblog Windows 2003 Microsoft IIS Velocity |
Dody Crane Weblog Solaris 8 Apache Aliant |
Egmont |
No Weblog Linux Apache ePark | No Weblog Linux Apache ISN | No Weblog Windows 2003 Microsoft IIS eNom |
Regina Russell No Website |
Malpeque |
No Weblog Linux Apache EV1Servers | No Weblog Linux Apache ISN | No Weblog Linux Apache ISN |
Ken Bingham No Website |
I’ve added new website addresses for Lawrence MacAulay and Reg Harper, and changed all
of the Green Party addresses to point at their Island-based party website candidate pages.
There are now pointers to candidate weblogs where they exist.
Dody Crane’s website is being moved to a new address at Eastlink, and I’ve been
told it will be live later today; I’ll update this page when it’s available online.
There are now NDP candidates in Malpeque and Egmont, although the national NDP office can’t give me telephone numbers or website addresses yet. I do have local email addresses, and I’ve sent out a query looking for information, which I will post when it arrives.
I have become addicted to the BBC series Coupling again. After renting season one on DVD last summer, I’ve found seasons two, three and part of four online. I’ve been watching all week. It’s very funny.
Wily-eyed friend Gary found this Robert Harris watercolour in the online Confederation Centre Art Gallery.
From the church, count three buildings to the left: that’s our house at 100 Prince Street. When the watercolour was painted, in 1870, our house was already 33 years old (see also this photo taken 34 years after the watercolour).
Kudos to the team at the Centre for developing this wonderful, elegant online resource. Who would have ever thought that the Centre would employ people with the job title of Metadata Technician.
I do shudder to think that our house is now part of the grade 4-5 curriculum, although I do take some pride in knowing that this will help students “identify and describe how people create places that reflect human needs, values, and ideas.” That’s certainly the effect we’re going for here, now.
So far Dody Crane, Shawn Murphy and Peter McQuaid are the only candidates with blogs. Only Dody’s has a complete feature-set, with things like an RSS feed (she’s using TypePad). Shawn’s “Daily Update” is built using DotNetNuke and Peter’s looks like HTML homebrew.
By the way, Dody’s website has gone dark; it’s still being pointed to by the federal NDP site, though.
And Shawn has a campaign website to replace his regular MP website during the campaign.