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Memo To Self:

Move up my Member of Parliament election plans, so I can get some of that sweet, sweet, tax payer cheddar.

MPs hike expense allowance by 20 per cent
Members of Parliament are welcoming their three month hiatus from Ottawa along with a 20 per cent increased allowance... MPs will now get $24,000 a year -- $2,000 a month -- to pay for living in an apartment or hotel in Ottawa. The increases accompany a soar in MPs' salaries by 34 percent, to $147,000.

Write to Premier Dalton McGuinty,to stop the construction of new nuclear power plants in Ontario.Critics are accusing the Ontario government of behind-the-scenes moves to avoid environmental assessments of a controversial electricity generation plan that calls for the construction of new nuclear reactors. The Liberal cabinet quietly passed a regulation Monday that exempts the province’s 20-year energy strategy from environmental assessments.

Go to the Ontario Clean Air website to get the info on sending McGuinty a message. And while you are on their site, take the time to read their Clean and Green, and A New Electricity Strategy for Ontario, papers.

This is what I like to call a placeholder, enjoy it untill I make a post.

Comparison of multiple liquid partition chromatography to fractionationate human serum for LC-MALDI mass spectrometry and LC-ESI tandem mass spectrometry. [link]

Sounds kind of boring I know, so I am enclosing a picture of her ass to entise more people into reading it (that my friends is what good advertising is all about).

If that whet your whistle, go read the full thing.

Meat encounter the first; I had some moose sausage, no that's not an innuendo, I literally had moose meat, this guy brought some into work today. Apparently someone hit a moose, and then they turned it into moose sausage. That BTW is the first time I've strayed from farm animals, it was odd.

Meat encounter the second; After work I met up with Seaturtle out in Burlington because she lives there, and I work next door in Oakville. She told me about a big organic grocery store out there, because she knew I was looking for one to purchase some Goji berries. So we went to this place and it was awesome! From everything we checked out the prices were quite low and competitive with regular grocery prices, but with organic quality goodness.
At the meats and poultry counter, they had a bunch of sample platters up with various barbecued meats which were delicious, without all the chemicals they taste so much better. A while ago Mycophile had served us some tasty organic meats and these were just as good as I remembered those being. So I picked some up, along with some organic milk, which I was also quite glad to find, because ever since I saw The Corparation and all the horrible things they do to dairy cows in order to increase their milk output, I've been weary of lactose products. I also found my Goji berries so I was pleased, it was a good hippy outing.

Linux Host > Windows XP Virtual Machine > Citrix Session > Remote Console Windows XP Virtual Machine > Virtual Center server session > Remote Console Windows 2003 Virtual Machine

I've seen nested russian dolls with less layers.

There were DNS issues, don't ask further questions...

So if the company one works for is featured in a front page slashdot story does that mean that by proxy one has himself been slashdotted?

Why yes, I think it does : )

So you have a Brazillian client, who speaks the native language of Brazil, which is Portuguese, NOT Spanish as the uninformed think. But no one in the office speaks Portuguese, so what do you do? Well the honkeys at said office, threw this Spanish speaking guy into a Portuguese phone call, which resulted in perhaps the most awkward fiber channel discussion known to man. After a painfully long, extended dance remix length conversation with this guy, I believe that I'm either marrying his daughter, or he is going to fix his fiber path setup, either outcome is cool with me (Brazillian girls are hot!).