So a handsomely profitable corporation buys a London Ontario locomotive factory in June 2010 and promptly tells the 465 or so members of the CAW local there that they’ll have to cut their wages in half and give up their pension plan to keep their jobs. Things lead to things
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cmkl: They’ve got their own government, their own TV network
Naturally they’ll be feeling a bit cocky. So cocky that they figure they can fake the oath. That would be the citizenship oath. A fake oath with fake citizens on TV show about fake issues.
Continue readingcmkl: C’mon people now, smile on your brother everybody get together try to love one another right now
A line from a cheesey hippie song from the sixties. À propos of nothing, really, except this. No, I’m not expecting Stephen Harper will start getting together and trying to love all the low-income seniors he’d screw out of two years of OAS even as the F-35s scream overhead.
Continue readingcmkl: Seventy five pages today
There were a bunch of other things I was doing today, but I got through seventy five pages. Of content inventory. Without falling asleep. Are you impressed? Me neither. Ah well.
Continue readingcmkl: So I’m doing this content inventory at work
I hit 400 pages today. I’m maybe 25 per cent of the way there. If I had my druthers I think about 380 of them would be kept near-line if not deleted. Of course I’m working my way through a part of the site that’s rife with disposable content. Namely
Continue readingcmkl: Patched ceiling, wounded pride
So this weekend I started in on fixing the hole I opened in the ceiling to figure out the leaky toilet thing. The toilet is fixed. Thanks to Pegg Plumbing. Sigh. I’m not giving up my day job to become a handy dude any time soon.
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Mallory and her friend C’s grand finale from their late afternoon play date was a fashion show. Complete with runway, lighting, music and intro from Irene.
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory was out partying tonight
Well, okay, not really. But she was over at her friend C’s (movie and pizza night) til 8:30. Waaay past her bedtime.
Continue readingcmkl: And while I’m ranting
Do you ever notice how the people who will complain about unionized workers making a little (or a lot it doesn’t seem to matter) more than non-unionized workers always argue that the solution is for unionized workers to earn less?
Continue readingcmkl: Fewer good jobs around so let’s eliminate more of them
That’ll make everyone feel better. A CIBC report covered today says there are fewer good jobs in Canada these days. The bank’s job quality index dropped by a per cent over the last year. Wow they have a job quality index. It’s almost like they care.
Continue readingcmkl: And now we fire the people who encourage us to make homes energy efficient
Natural Resources Canada is eliminating 100 jobs, Postmedia’s Kathryn May reports. Ministry spokespeople say the positions being cut were those managing “sunsetting” programs and that there are no new decreases to service cuts.
Continue readingcmkl: So my friend Teresa Healy aka @FinnegansMum has a blog
Teresa is definitely one of the people who should be publishing a blog. And now, she has one. Courtesy of yours truly. Congratulations Teresa on your first couple of posts. I hope to read many more.
Continue readingcmkl: Fell on my ass
For the second time. In – what – three weeks? That perfect slam right on the tailbone. Or whatever that bone is called. I could feel it coming. It happened maybe five minutes before the end of this morning’s skate skiing lesson.
Continue readingcmkl: Toilet tales part three: the gasket at the bottom of the tank
I don’t think I seated it properly. At least I hope that’s where the water’s coming from now. The alternative explanation has a far worse solution.
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Skate skiing lesson this evening. Quite cold but manageable. I have to say it was a bit distressing.
Continue readingcmkl: What does it mean to ‘scan’ web content?
Trying to use numbers to settle an argument today at work I found this (somewhat old) Jakob Nielsen column about how much reading most people actually do on the internet. The answer? Of the words you write, about 28 per cent on average get read.
Continue readingcmkl: Wolf Lake Wednesday
It’s late but here’s my week’s contribution to Wolf Lake Wednesday. Friends of Temagami, Earthroots and no doubt a bunch of other organizations and individuals are trying to pressure the Ontario government to take Wolf Lake in the Chiniguchi waterway off the table for mining and logging.
Continue readingcmkl: Hello rear derailleur, good to feel you again
The past couple of days have been evidence of why some people like single gear bikes in winter. My cassette has been covered in solid ice and my rear derailleur cable has been frozen in its housing. I don’t have a garage at home and at work the parking garage
Continue readingcmkl: Urgent action required: remember you are not your audience
I send and receive a fair number of appeals for online actions. And I see phrases like “Act now” or “Urgent! Your help needed” a lot and I admit if I ever have any control over it, I usually edit them out. Especially if they’re in the subject line or
Continue readingcmkl: Toilet tales part two: the big reveal
So I took the toilet off to discover the base had been sealed to the top of the drain with heaps and heaps of stuff (felt like about half a kilo) of goo the consistency and colour of bees wax. And I’m guessing, from the location of little bits of
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