sad day – my nano is broken

September 27, 2008

sigh – tomorrow it’s off to the apple store to see if they’ll replace this. i measured, it fell all of 2 feet, a portable device should not suffer catastrophic failure from such a relatively minor fall. i’ll post tomorrow with the results of my beg-a-thon at the apple store d_c UPDATE: i went directly [...]

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interview with Andrew Lang

September 25, 2008

alright, another interview of a local candidate done! check out the post on democraticspace! things that didn’t make it into my piece there. Andrew had a blog before running as a liberal candidate, but even though he had a bunch of people review it and make sure there wasn’t anything crazy, once the main party [...]

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interview with Sharon Howarth (green candidate)

September 22, 2008

i interviewed Sharon Howarth, the green candidate for my riding today, the details are up at democraticspace a few things that didn’t make it into that post. 1. we ran into the liberal candidate, Andrew Lang, as we walked out to the park bench where we sat and talked. was a funny moment in my [...]

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riding blogging for democraticspace

September 16, 2008

so in a fit of inspiration i answered a call for bloggers to cover our federal election. my first post is up, but i really need new material, the toronto-danforth race isn’t really all that interesting yet. anyone have any juicy inside information from the campaign trail they can send me? http://www.democraticspace.com/canada2008/2008/09/toronto-danforth-is-there-any-chance-jack-wont-win/

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politics as usual in canada

September 11, 2008

it’s that time of year again, when politicians make promises we all know they won’t keep, but we keep our fingers crossed nonetheless that the promises we care about are the ones that will somehow make it through the grinder of political expediency. yes that’s right, it’s a canadian federal election. i don’t follow hockey, [...]

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