Posts Tagged: Charlottetown & PEI
It's Official - Hurricane Noel
Posted by on Thursday, November 1, 2007 in - leave a comment
“"MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 75 MPH...120 KM/HR... WITH HIGHER GUSTS. NOEL IS NOW A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR/SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE. HOWEVER...IT IS EXPECTED TO LOSE TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. NOEL SHOULD THEN STRENGTHEN AND INCREASE IN SIZE …
Hurricane Noel Heads Straight for Prince Edward Island
Posted by on Thursday, November 1, 2007 in - leave a comment
Tropical Storm (and potentially a hurricane) Noel has veered left of its last forcasted track and is now bearing down on Prince Edward Island. This seems to have saved me a drive to Cape Breton. • I've got a digital video camera, a sunroof, and a willing wife. Should be legendary.
Hurricane Noel Heads For the Maritimes
Posted by on Thursday, November 1, 2007 in - 3 comments
I'm an extreme weather junkie and this is the kind of thing that really gets me going. It's not a hurricane yet but is forecast to be one. • I'm charging the camera & GPS batteries, prepping the car, and patching up the Goretex.... Check back here for updates.
Geocaching on PEI
Posted by on Sunday, October 21, 2007 in - 1 comment
Geocaching is basically a treasure hunt for nerds with GPS devices. • “"Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere …
Prince Edward Island IT Industry Stats
Posted by on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 in - 1 comment
I got an email today announcing a new provincial sponsored project for employers to find employees and vice versa. A nice idea really. On this page I found this chart: • Total Employees by Sector • Advanced Technology • 19 • Communications • 335 • Computer Sales and Services • 3 …
2007 Summer Album - Little Jabs by Two Hours Traffic
Posted by on Monday, August 13, 2007 in - leave a comment
Each summer an album takes over my car's CD player for drives to the beach, to hikes, and to get ice cream. This summer it's Little Jabs by Charlottetown band Two Hours Traffic. • It's a sing-out-loud, feel good album that will have you singing the songs in your head day and night. • Buy the …
Perma-Fresh Loaf
Posted by on Monday, July 30, 2007 in - 1 comment
Today the local CBC website posted a news story about a loaf of bread that has been fresh for eight months... I'm not sure as to whether I'm happy that we don't have enough bad news to fill up the day or sad that this makes the news here... Either way the world should know about this amazing loaf …
Looking for Another Web Designer
Posted by on Monday, July 16, 2007 in - 3 comments
The word just hit the information-super-highway: silverorange is looking for a new designer (again). • This time we are looking for someone who lives in PEI (and would work in Charlottetown) or someone who would be willing to move to Charlottetown. • This position will become a full-time …
Care to Administer our Systems?
Posted by on Friday, June 1, 2007 in - leave a comment
silverorange is hiring once again. This time around we're looking for someone who has an interest in managing the systems behind the web systems we build. You'll be in charge of running, installing, and managing our servers, managing our network (both server side and workstation side), and doing …
Tim Banks
Posted by on Monday, May 14, 2007 in - leave a comment
Peter Rukavina had an interesting encounter with Tim Banks, celebrity Charlottetown property developer & owner of the APM Group, this weekend. Peter has posted a full account of the incident on his weblog. • Apparently the blog post at the center of this altercation was Peter posting a photo of …