It’s upgrade time

Things may be strange for the next bit while I overwrite some files. Should be back to normal in a few minutes. I’ll update this post when the upgrade’s done. edit — done!

I was unfaithful…

Look, I am new to the city and I am lonely. My husband is busy day and night doing important and confidential things that he cannot talk to me about. What is a woman to do when a sweet, friendly face shows up at her door begging for affection? Yes, I have been feeding thecontinue reading

Cheese, Gromit!

The BBC says: Trouble at’ Mill is a murder mystery that sees Wallace and Gromit running a bakery business – with their house converted into a granary with ovens and robotic kneading arms. Some details on (where else) http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/, which is a thoroughly silly and entertaining site.

Never fear — PR is here!

So it seems Pearson airport is firing its nurses — who handle 700+ patients per month, meeting them at or on the plane if necessary — and turning their jobs over to the Peel Fire Department and local ambulances (i.e., if there’s an emergency at the airport they’ll just call 911). But [spokesperson for thecontinue reading

Shout out Up

Been meaning to post this for a while… One of the projects I set for my recent vacation in England was to rewatch, with Kelly and my mother, the 7 Up documentaries, up through the most recent one, 49 Up, from 2005.  We didn’t get all the way through, so I left the set withcontinue reading

Oh, come on, people –

Wikipedia: Starting with the execution of John Boyd in January 1908, [[hanging]]s at the Don took place in an indoor chamber, which was a converted washroom, at the northeast corner of the old building. Previously, condemned men had been hanged on an outdoor scaffold in the jail yard. The Globe: 1908 John Boyd is thecontinue reading

The brave bloggers of Burma

In 1989, I was glued to the television for weeks watching the pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square make their peaceful case for democracy. The entire world could watch because of the footage that was broadcast. In Burma, foreign journalists are banned. In 1988 information about the junta’s crackdown was limited, and verbal. But thanks tocontinue reading

Fight the Power

Would-be car buyers launch a class action suit claiming sticker prices on Canadian cars are illegal. One analyst points out that when the C$ was at US$0.65 — not so very long ago — prices here were actually lower and no one was complaining. What the plaintiffs ignore is that Canada is a different countrycontinue reading