What’s happening May 19, 2010:
Within a couple of days of announcing it, the city has painted rush-hour sharrows. I tried one on College, sadly, after rush-hour – so it didn’t really do anything. Unless by me not getting killed, it did work. Deterrence is so nebulous.
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That is unless you’re talking about the G8 – where it’s pretty clear thousands of mounties and Ottawa paranoia have deterred cottage country life from continuing normally. Example wacky government at work: fire chief lends security pass to deputy chief. Gets fired for this. Replaced by deputy chief.
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Bangkok is in disarray and if you want to follow just three Twittering journalists there, they should be @markmackinnon, @journotopia, and @tulsathit.
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Google’s gone and done it this time. Apparently, while they were siphoning info on our wifi for GPS use, they (if you believe them) innocently took in hundreds of gigs of un-encrypted web data like passwords, status updates, web sites you visit, and emails. Ooops.
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NOW will have full coverage on the mayoral debate last night shortly, but until then, imagine what Rob Ford would do to this city if he got his wish to bring back the Fantino reign of corruption scandals and undercover beatings.[rssbreak]
