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The City Hall skating rink is presently a lake. There was a very pissed-off seagull standing in the middle of it as I passed.

Memo to visiting heads of state and their spouses: try not to wear anything that will clash with (a) the Canadian flag, (b) the Mounties. Really.



ETA: OK, that's actually Sheila Martin, who really should know better. But my comment still stands:



...good God, and will you look at Sheila's horrible fake tan?

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Mark well this historic day! For it is the first time that I have brought my own lunch to this new job!

Mmm... lunch.

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Going through my emailed tables of contents 'n' stuff (I'm down to 41 now).

A lot of the stories fail the rigourous "Who cares?" test. I find you can weed out about 50% that way, with a further 30% failing either the "Duh" or the "n>1?" tests and another 15% the "So what?" test.

When you apply the even more rigourous "Will my boss like it?" test to what's left, you don't have an awful lot.

But anyway. The boss is in a mellow mood today; I have had compliments and no corrections. Whee!

everything old is new again

Detroit is missing the boat on hybrid cars

Reading Fear and Loathing in America has been giving me weird feelings of deja vu (despised politicians in the White House! Inept Democratic political campaigns dropping the ball! Rising body counts in an unjustified war!) all week, so this is just one more.