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1. Building your website right can save you loads of time and money! - The FYI Motors website is a backend driven website that allows FYI Motors to save hundreds of dollars a year. They wanted a administration system that allows them to update their website on their own. They are a successful car company and don't want to have to contact us a couple times a week to mark a car as sold, or remove a sold car from their website. This only leads to more bills. So they wanted a system that would allow them to do it all on their own. Now they can go i...[More]2. Goodwin's Law - PEIinfo is a major online community coffee shop that thousands of Islanders use. Today I was reading about Goodwin's Law and it poses very true even in this day in age.
“As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. ”...[More]
3. Best of PEI Market - Today I was out at the Best of PEI Market visiting Aaron Dick, who is the web strategist at Macarthur Group Inc.. The isles were packed and I got a couple photos while visiting. The last photo is Aaron showing me the POS system they used that is MAC based.
4. Major PEI Development Projects - Oran Canada called it a "minor blip". What is Dyne Holdings calling it? "Campbell said he has approval to proceed with the project if the parking issue can be solved. The developers are due to break ground in March." The Oran Canada project was to build $25 million worth of condominiums on top of the Waterfront Mall in Summerside. Now Dyne Holdin...[More]
5. Shot in the foot by tourism? - While reports are that overall the tourism industry is up 1-2% (currently) I've heard complaints from some operators that things are down while obviously others are reporting things are up. From my point of view, the ones that have complained about things being down are the ones who haven't really changed much to their establishment. What is surprising is the recent CBC Article. Overall you would think people would want to report this in...[More]
6. Today's Restaurant Specials - I've always been interested in the local specials from our Islands different restaurants as I tend to forget what is available on what days therefore I decided to build a system that would show what is on special today. The great thing about the restaurant specials section is that it shows all applicable specials of today on one page. Therefore instead of going to multiple pages to figure out what the specials are, I've made it easier. Add in my favorite restaurants and its also a reminder service. However I identified...[More]
7. Survivor - PEIinfo Style - Rob MacDonald is planning on hosting another PEIinfo Cut Throat Island, if there is enough interest (which there always is). Cut Throat Island, PEIinfo's version of the T.V. show Survivor. It's funny, entertaining and serious all in one and Rob does a wonderful job hosting it....[More]
8. Aliant Bringing High Speed to All Islanders - Well, its no wonder Aliant is bringing high speed internet to the entire Island, after all, high speed internet is their business. Imagine for a second that Aliant did not make this investment, instead say the government gave $10 million to another company such as ISN Wireless. The $10 million dollar investment into a company like ISN Wireless[More]
9. Razzy's Road House - After spending a few moments online Friday looking for the phone number for Razzy's Road House, I have found the number on the front of their menu (out of all places). It is 892-8810 and not 566-4705 as reported on numerous websites. When I called this number on Friday, the lady who answered made it sound like she receives dozens of calls per ...[More]
10. December 22nd, 2008 Snow Storm - On Prince Edward Island, we are currently experiencing a bit of a snow storm. Photos of my excursion last night are online. ...[More]
11. Easy to use UPEI Searchable Timetable website - Today I created a UPEI timetable database which users can search to find out what classes are offered between the requested times. This makes the timetable much more easier to search for courses that people may be interested in taking between certain times. An example: Last semester I had a class on Tuesday afternoon at 2pm-3pm and Tuesday night at 7pm-10pm. I wanted to take a course between 3pm-4pm but did not see anything on the official timetable. Upon closer inspection l...[More]
12. Switch has been flicked - Tonight I launched a new morriscode website, the other one was done super fast and didn't really crank my boat as it was done in a hurry to get something up while I had numerous projects on the go. This edition, titled 2009, was done relatively quick as well but a lot more thought went into it. Welcome to the new site. ...[More]
13. New Years 2009 Snow Storm - Aren't snowstorms great?
Except for when......
[More] 14. New Years 2009 Storm Cleanup Process Begins - And the cleanup process begins.
...[More] 15. Charlottetown Bylaws Lawsuit | Laws Not Being Enforced by City? - The Guardian has posted a story about Homburg Invest. Inc. who has launched a lawsuit against the Tweels in regards to their properties downtown. The lawsuit claims properties owned by the Tweel companies in downtown Charlottetown are vacant, under-occupied, derelict, dilapidated, run down, unsightly, susceptible to fire, susceptible to crime and vandalism and are non-compliant with the city’s bylaws or building codes. Are things in Charlottetown t...[More]
16. Ice Storms A Brewing? - My friend Aaron Dick posted this ice storm video from last year's January Ice Storm. We have now had a fre...[More]
17. Email Verification - Most websites that allow you to submit a reply to articles, such as this blog, asks you to fill in usually three or four fields:
- Your Name
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- Your Website
- Captcha An Anti-Bot Code
18. Economic Downturn & PEI - Has the economic downturn really hit PEI? Kathy Hambly, executive director of the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce doesn't think so and neither do I. I haven't heard of any mass layoffs, except for Bell Canada/Aliant. Then again, when things are going good we don't exactly see lots of new companies coming in adding 100's of jobs to our economy like in the bigger centers. I still be...[More]
19. Medallion Smoked Salmon - When I was a teenager, in the Summertime I used to work for my uncle Warren at Ripley's Believe it or Not in Cavendish. Everyday I would take route 224 through Wheatley River as a short cut to Cavendish. The New Glasgow Road or Route 224 would cut through Ebenezer which is a real tiny community North-East of Charlottetown. Everyday I would notice the sign on the ...[More]
20. PEIinfo Forums - The PEIinfo forums are currently down while I upgrade the forums to phpBB 3. The process shouldn't take any longer then an hour. ...[More]
21. PEIinfo Forums Upgrades - The PEIinfo forums have been upgraded to use the phpBB 3 system. Everything appears to be back online and numerous people have already signed in. Lots of updates were made in phpBB 3 that we're not available in phpBB 2, I haven't seen all the changes yet and am too, trying to work my way through them! ...[More]
22. Storm Stayed? What? - It's Wednesday and we are suppose to be experiencing another winter storm. We are currently under a snowfall warning and at present it isn't storming outside. While we sit here on PEI wondering about this snow storm, for some people south of the equator they don't even know what being storm stayed is. Just remember, Summer's coming. ...[More]
23. Successful & Wealthy People And Why I Don't Hate Them - A lot of people don't like the Irving's. Reasons vary as to why people don't like them but for some there is a anti-success reason. Some people just don't like successful people. Why? I am not sure, especially when we should be proud of our successful people. The obvious answer might be jealousy but I can't say for sure. I think it is great we have successful people here and wish everyone was successful and rich like the Irving's. I think it is times like now that those who dislike successful people should wake up ...[More]
24. Unofficial UPEI Course Timetable Updates - I have made some updates to the unofficial UPEI course time table that include a update function that allows people to update the schedule database with the click of a button. Of course, I have set it up so it doesn't sound so technical for those who are technically inclined/worried about blowing something up. To date there seems to be an average of 8.75 searches per user and the user's are spending an average of 8 minutes on it howe...[More]
25. New Government Website - The province has released a new version of the government's official website. It pretty much follows the Tourism PEI website's design and the liberal parties website design. While the rotating top header is a hit and I like it, the bottom part where the actual content is, could use some work! ...[More]
26. What's Going On In Montague? - Montague, a small beautiful town east of Charlottetown, seems to be having its moments lately. I read in Wednesday Guardian about how the town had purchased 7 desktop computers for a sum of $5,000. When I had read it, I thought wow, they must be doing an awful lot of work with those laptops. Two weeks ago my sister called me from Halifax and was in the process of buying a laptop. She got a nice laptop for $500 including an extended warranty. My sister is probably an average user. She can go on the computer, install programs and s...[More]
27. Tourism Charlottetown - Again Tourism Charlottetown did a great job with another festival. The Jack Frost Festival brought thousands of people to Prince Edward Island during the slower winter months and the economic impact was expected to top $1.5 million according to the report in todays The Guardian. I am a firm believer that Tourism Charlottetown should continue to lead the way in performing such great revenue generators for local business. By pulling such events of, it does nothing but increase t...[More]
28. The Employment Journey Features PEIinfo - The newest edition of The Employment Journey (Feb/March 2009) features PEIinfo as the website of the month. The magazine is dedicated to career planning and job seeking however to someone like myself it provides interesting stories on local companies. It features local companies and how they are doing. Obviously, companies doing well would be more interested in hiring 10-20 more people vs companies who are going on a hiring freeze. The magazine also features informati...[More]
29. The Connector Idea Appeals To Me Too! - Currently the sun is shining and its a beautiful day outside. In fact, I think I am going to take a shot at going to the beach.....err wait. Maybe not. It's freezing raining, its miserable and to go anywhere in this city we must walk through the freezing rain. Not exactly a motivating reason to go anywhere. A connector in the downtown core would make more sense then anything, especially on rainy miserable days. A perfect example is the connectors in Halifax. You can walk to a lot of places without going outside. In Charlottetown,...[More]
30. Maid Marian's On Fire - If you haven't heard by now, you're probably not from Charlottetown or you're not in the loop but Maid Marian's went up in flames tonight, as did the Sherwood Drug Mart. A lot of photos have been posted online with many more on Facebook!
My friend Andrew got some video of the horrific fire and apparently the fire did not start from within the kitchen as someone came into the Kitchen at Maid M...[More]
