Boosting Consumer Spending 2 days ago Read More 
I'm here in New England for a week visiting with my colleagues at Yankee. Aeroplan arrangements necessitated a Saturday arrival in Boston, and thanks to Hotwire I ended up staying overnight at the ...
No Longer Terrified 3 days ago Read More
When I arrived in Prince Edward Island 15 years ago, I was terrifically shy. I could conduct myself in polite society, but small talk was a foreign language for me and casual social situations were...
Restaurant Accountability 4 days ago Read More
In the November 24, 2008 issue of The New Yorker is an article Garden of Contentment by Fuchsia Dunlop concerning The Manor, a restaurant in Hangzhou, China. The restaurant is remarkable for its at...
One Day of OpenCorporations.org 4 days ago Read More
I released the OpenCorporations.org site into the wild yesterday. Here's what happened in the first 17 hours of its life:
17,046 searches in total
Maximum rate of 34 searches/minute during the busi...
Staples: That was [not] easy 4 days ago Read More
Before heading off-Island for a week I needed to print 80 copies of something. I had a PDF of the something on my phone, and so I went out to Staples on the outskirts of Charlottetown hoping they'd...
Funfrastructure 4 days ago Read More
I've been thinking a lot about something I've come to call funfrastructure community infrastructure that has no purpose other than to bring fun into the lives of the citizenry. Brother Johnny cam...
Chicken Soup for the, um, Soul 4 days ago Read More
For the past month I've fallen into the habit of dropping around the corner to the Seatreat for a bowl of chicken and rice soup for lunch. A descendant of Louis' famous soup from The Town & Country...
