After being registered for a year and using it actively for a few months I now get twitter. Two recent uses have twigged me to twitter’s terrificness. This month when the roads on Bowen Island were slippery and dangerous a group of us worked over twitter to create a road status tool that uses crowdsourcing to report on road conditions on our island. Road conditions are incredibly variable depending on the altitude of the road (from sea level to 500 feet and more) and so it’s not enough to say “Grafton Road is clear” because it might be snowchoked up …
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Back from Maui and here are the things that you need to know about that amazing island. This was our fourth trip there and we’re very much in the flow of Maui as an almost second home. If there was a theme to this trip it was LOCAL. We stayed close to our living quarters for the most part, ate local food, consumed local media and tapped in to local issues. When we are in Maui we rent a little condo at a place called Hale Kamaole, which is an older condo complex in Kihei on the sunny …
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Stuff people threw my way: Brad Ovenell Carter has been using Webspiration. It works for me in Chrome but not Firefox… Mark Brady on when times will get good again. Dervala Hanley, whose taste I trust absolutely, posts her favourite books and music from last year. My own Bowen Island Journal has a new home See you all in a couple of weeks.
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I’m closing up shop, unplugging and dropping out for two weeks and going on holiday, and I don’t have time to work through this problem, but can anyone speculate about why my wesite shows up as a smiley face in Explorer but works fine in Firefox and Chrome? See you on after the 24th
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San Jose, CA We’re planning a gathering of the good food movement, so naturally, the pursuit of good food is everything. Since arriving here yesterday I’ve eaten in three places, all of them good for various reasons. First, the Grill here at the Fairmont is crazy expensive, but if you cover your eyes and just order, the food is good. I had a cabrese salad with buffalo mozzerella that melted in my mouth and some lamb chops cooked on the rare side of medium rare (which is how I like them). Lamb was good, but the side …