* I played with an iPhone on the weekend. I was right. I want one.
* I have solved the mystery of the heat in my oven. When it is set to 350ºC, it is really 450ºC. So, if you put the dial on just over 250ºC, it is really 350ºC. I will now stop burning everything.
(oh, & btw, one of these is presently in the oven).
* There’s a cool show on CBC show Ideas today & tomorrow called, “The Trouble With Tolerance” Check it out if you have some time. I just heard the first half while getting the point above sorted out and I thought it was good listening (well, nothing new for those of us who listen to this topic a lot).
*I was hoping to have something to say about a book I’m reading, but I didn’t quite finish it this weekend, since i was playing with a wee friend on the train yesterday… so you’ll just have to wait of that.
*I ate some good eats with some good friends yesterday for lunch and some great Lithuanian celebratory eats at a wedding Saturday night. And the rest of you plain old missed out!
G sent me the link to allergicgirl, who makes my occassional posts about my hyperallergies look wimpy. However, it is very annoying that she only allows other people with Blogger Blogspot accounts to comment on her blog. Is she allergic to the rest of us, or something?
Ok, I can honestly say that I’ve finally had some *seriously* good eats here in Ottawa. I had a veggie burger at Cafe Paradiso today for lunch and it was good good good. Unlike most restaurant veggie burgers, this one was soy-free and homemade. It was made out of pecans! And came with a mango salsa and some pickled onions. The side salad was yummy, too!
I don’t know why it amuses me, but Six Apart is borked. I guess I’ve lost faith in them after their efforts to break up all that makes LJ beautiful (i.e. community). So, yeah, I’m just laughing at them. This is what happens, folks, when you concentrate all the important intarwebz sites in one location.
In other blogging news, I was speaking to my mother & said, “I danced tango on parliament hill” and she said, “I know”
Huh? How did my mother know that?! Oh wait… she read my blog!
She said that she hasn’t heard from me for awhile and was wondering what I was up to, so decided to check my blog.
And now she wants an upgraded computer and wifi… so she can watch the videos I put up.
This article brings insight into the challenges of connectivity outside of the overdeveloped world. When I lived in Quetta, Pakistan in the late 1990s/early 2000s, people spoke at length of the fibre optic cable which was “on it’s way”. In 2 years, it never arrived. I wonder if it’s there, even now?
Anyhoo… some of the challenges listed in this article remind me of the subtitle of a paper I published awhile ago: What if more than half the world wants Internet access?. In that paper I didn’t cover the technical challenges of getting bandwith everywhere, as I was thinking more about how to design and introduce the ‘Net to communities, but there are technical challenges listed here which seem to be yet one more way in which the overdeveloped can continue to (neo)colonise the least/less developed.
What is more appropriate for Diss on the night I sent him off to my other two committee members than this song? I remember when this song first came out. My brother (or was that me?) bought a 45 of it. And I just loved it. Maybe that’s why I always wear a lot of black? But nevermind that… I think it’s perfect for singing from mountain tops when things are going right & you’ve got swagger in your gait.
Cause I’m back on the track
And I’m beatin’ the flack
Nobody’s gonna get me on another rap
So look at me now
I’m just makin’ my play
Don’t try to push your luck, just get out of my way
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although those Oolong shoes (in cherry) really kick ass. I was so discouraged that I saw but did not try these mirabelles on in black although I’m fairly sure that they might fit me. Woe to be a AAA! 
Is she allergic to the rest of us, or something? 
btw, I’ve got