The CBC Archives on the web, which remains a beacon of sanity inside the sometimes crazy online presence of the corporation, has an excellent feature on the Toronto and Montreal subway systems. Well worth a browse and/or listen.

Note that if you’re behind NAT, and forward port 5060 to an Asterisk server to allow connection to remote SIP proxies, and have a Mac running iChat behind the same NAT, you’ll probably run into problems (I did) because iChat is, under the hood, a SIP client itself.

I’ve been doing some additional experimenting (read “procrastinating” or, more charitably, “long term R&D”) with Asterisk, the open source PBX that now answers my phone.

Tonight I added a “The temperature in Charlottetown is X degrees” line to the opening salvo, pulling the current temperature from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

You can hear it for yourself at (902) 892-2556. Don’t worry, you can hang up the phone before you disturb me. Or you can ring through and say hello!

Just for the record, I’ll mention here that I asked Brent, creator of NetNewsWire whether it was possible to easily export the subscription list as OPML via Applescript. His response: “There isn’t a simple way. I’ll take it as a feature request.”

I mention this simply in case others are thinking that it should be simple, and can’t seem to find a way nonetheless.

Kevin O’Brien indirectly reminded me today that it has been ten years this month that Reinvented (then known as Digital Island) has been doing whatever it does.

In January of 1994, we started working for the Province of PEI on www.gov.pe.ca.

One of the things I learned from the endless cocktail party on January 1 was that Matt McQuaid, the son of Justice John McQuaid, who I worked with on a Supreme Court of PEI project, is in The Rude Mechanicals.

As coincidence would have it, Steven Garrity’s Acts of Volition Radio, Act III includes a song by the band, with appropriate commentary. Well worth a listen.

As regular readers will know, our client Yankee Publishing is based in Dublin, New Hampshire. And as followers of U.S. politics will know, New Hampshire is the focal point of the Democratic Primary this month, running up to the polling day on Tuesday, January 27th.

As luck would have it, I’ll be in New Hampshire that week (I arrive on the 23rd, and leave on the 30th), so I’ll have my first opportunity to experience primary mania first hand.

Helpfully, one of my colleagues at Yankee is working with the Howard Dean campaign, so I’ll be able to get more oriented than I might otherwise once I arrive.

I’ll blog and post photos throughout my time there. Stay tuned.

Adam Curry points to this feature on the MSNBC website. Notice how, at the bottom of that page there’s a “License this Interactive for your web site!” link that leads to this page at the Copyright Clearance Centre, which tells you that you can license the content for inclusion in your website for only $99.

Why on earth would anyone actually do this, rather than simply linking to the resource itself, as Adam did?