30. March, 2004 - life getting in the way of blogging

• Last night, Jim and I went to the presentation on Transit Workers’ Struggles, Past and Present. We both took a lot of notes, and mean to write it up one of these days. I’m also still waiting for the time to write up the weekend in Toronto, and the fix I found for my problems with my VPN hardware yesterday afternoon. I guess I’’ve just been too busy doing stuff to blog about it lately.
• The transit Strike delays LRT opening, but work - and debate - continues. The interesting thing that this article points out is that the LRT is contractually obligated to open before the year is done as part of the federal funding that was received for it. While I’d hate to see a strike go on that long, that might give the union some leverage if things drag out. [daily]
• Says here the strike is hurting business, but only a few businesses so far. [press-patch]
• Twins Geek reports on the The Victory Sports One Conflict and also mentions (in an article that I can’t find a permalink for) that he’ll be writing for the Strib sometime before the start of the season. Congrats!
• ADHOC now has a blog. There’s not much content there yet, but we’ve got it running so we can add stuff. Woo? Setting that up was another one of the things that got in the way of the normal blogging-time yesterday.
• Ireland’s smoking Ban has Emerald Isle seeing red. And Turly suggests (via Jim, but not that Jim) the following anagrams for “The smoking ban in Ireland”
  • Irishman knelt in bondage…
  • Banned Irish kin go mental!
  • Irish inn mob take England!
  • Irishmen gonna TALK in bed???
  • Kinsmen lighten. NO bad air!
  • Inhaling debt: sinner amok!
  • Amen ash! Binge lit on drink.
  • Drinks be: AMEN to inhaling!
  • I’m English! Drink tea on ban?
  • Nation blames drinking, eh?
  • Dining mate? Bonk inhalers!
  • No dinner-table ash. I’m KING!
  • Inhalation men beg drinks!
  • Mankind on isle breathing?
  He also reports that the pubs were packed last night with people out to say they’d been there on the first day of the ban. [press-patch]

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