We've launched an upgraded Canadian rockers Sloan's website today. A new fancy design and completely rebuilt from the ground up using our various open source packages. I think it turned out well.

Non-Fiction: "Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest" by Ed Webster. Multiple tales of Ed Webster's journeys to the peaks of the Himalayas. Great writing and beautiful book. Full colour photos abound.  •  Non-Fiction: "Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit …

It shouldn't be too big of an event now.

Newly formed Cristobal heads right for the maritime provinces but it's still too early to tell if anything really exciting will happen. By this time tomorrow we should know how close and how big this storm will be.

Alternate non-catchy title: Why growing a small to medium sized web service business is hard and what we did that we think helped  •  At its traditional core a service company is a difficult beast. To grow, and thus make more money, you can either work more hours, bill more per hour, or both …

Charlottetown, PEI (GMT -4): There are not many of us. In fact, most of the western world doesn't even know we exist. We are the few who live life at GMT-4. As far as everyone else is concerned the Atlantic Ocean starts to the right of GMT -5.  •  A few of the few of us hang our shingles in GMT -5 …

Long Weekend #2: Becky and I ventured up to Quebec City this weekend to visit a friend who is living there for the summer. What a great place! I haven't been to Quebec City since I was an unappreciative teenager. It really has a European feeling to it. Our friend had an apartment on the same block …

As seen in the San Francisco Airport. Creepy.

I had to fly to San Francisco for a few days this week to attend a few meetings: or, as we call it around the office, "doin' the business".  •  Before I left I read warnings that most of California was in a heat wave and it was also on fire. I griped about leaving beautiful PEI in the summer for a …

Please pardon the following rant if you're not from PEI.  •  Why doesn't the snack/coffee stand inside security open early in the morning when the first flights are leaving? This morning there were two, maybe three flights leaving early in the AM and it was shut tight, as usual. Is this not the …

I decided this summer that whenever I'm on my bike I'll have my GPS unit running. Below is what I biked in the month of June.  •  Some stats:  •  Duration: 21 hours, 57 minutes, 25 seconds  •  Length: 229.98 Kilometers  •  Average speed: 10.46 km/h  •  This isn't entirely accurate as there is some …

This summer silverorange is conducting an experiment with the normal working week. We're making it shorter.  •  For the past eighteen months we've been working too many hours per week. Last summer was a write-off as we had a few major projects being worked on. That work spilled into the fall and …

This morning, in the office mail, there was a letter for me. It was post marked from Madrid, Spain. It cost the sender 0.78 Euros to send. AND IT WAS SPAM! Not the kind of junk mail we usually get but the "I have millions of dollars to send you because your last name matches some dead guy's …

Nathan and I decided to celebrate our nation's birthday by biking to Mount Stewart and back. Here is our GPS trail for your enjoyment.