…we’re just catching the last ten minutes.

Is it the worst ending to the worst political movie ever made, or is there an even more appalling candidate?… Read more...

Tiger arrived at my house just as we were leaving for work. I have yet to delve into it too thoroughly, but I can already tell that its Spotlight search function and Automator, um, automating function are going to be very big.

And Dashboard, a layer of handy gadgets that you can call up or hide any time you want, could be amazing. But at the moment, too… Read more...

1. I mistook the Educational Policy Institute for the fringe-right-wing Education Policy Institute. Oops.
2. I didn’t double and triple check before posting a blog comment based on my misapprehension. Double and triple oops.
3. I apologized over there, and I’ll apologize over here: to Alex Usher and the non-crazy EPI, I’m sorry for my carelessness and the unwarranted implications of my comment.

Tiger is coming

Transcending the boundaries of (non-tech) geekiness, I’ve now set up ODTAA to mirror headlines from the BC NDP election web site. My ally: FeedWordPress, a cunning little plugin for converting RSS feeds to blog posts… Read more...

Strange thing: The Tyee published a book critical of the provincial Liberals six weeks ago, and can’t seem to get it reviewed:

Highly decorated journalists contributed brand new reports to Liberalized: The Tyee Report on BC under Gordon Campbell’s Liberals. The book breaks news, including Will McMartin’s FOI-backed bombshell that Campbell had documents showing he was inheriting a fat surplus of $1.5 billion just before his 2001… Read more...

So at the very time I need to be focussing all my thoughts on the provincial scene, someone has gone and created the very distracting Nomination Watch:

The plan is to use this as a one-stop-shopping place to see who’s nominated, who’s seeking nomination and who’s testing the waters in advance of the forthcoming federal election. News will hopefully be rooted mainly in published reports, but word of… Read more...

You hate to say “I told you so” to a guy like Bono, especially on the urgent issues he’s fighting for:

Rock superstar Bono is irked by Martin’s refusal to meet a long-stated standard for foreign aid increases.

“I’m annoyed,” the U2 frontman says in an exclusive interview to be aired today on CBC Radio’s The House.

“I’m bewildered, really. I’m disappointed. I can’t believe that… Read more...