background: two warring factions from an unknown planet have landed on Earth and are fighting each other all over the place. One crashes in Cardiff and Torchwood manages to take in one of the fighters. In the meantime, they are contacted by the opposing force to get their help. They invite a representative to the hub for three-way talks ( Read more... )

Upgraded to Firefox 3.5rc1. Nightly Tester Tools has once again saved all my yet-to-be-updated extensions that work fucking well even though nobody has flipped a number somewhere (what's the deal with that? It's so annoying!).

Also, from Revital Solomon's blog:

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geeze...

I actually emailed my supervisor today. Of my own volition. I'm quite proud of myself, really.

So, fellow Ontarians, I'm trying to make sense of this GST/PST harmonization thing. Why is everyone saying it's going to make stuff more expensive? Aren't we already paying 13% taxes on everything? Why should it matter whether it's divided into GST and PST or if it's all in one lump?

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During out visit back home I dropped by the local Tzomet Sfarim bookstore to see if there's anything that I might be interested in, despite the fact I had no time in the past 18 months to read anything not study-related except for a single Pratchett book. Anyway, as I was strolling by depressed by the complete lack of anything mildly interesting, I ( Read more... )

This past week I was frantically trying to finish reading Huntington's Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), on which I was supposed to give a 40 minute presentation today in my Core Developing course. The book is some 460-odd pages long, but we were spared a hundred of those. Still, that meant I had to do about 100 pages per day (including ( Read more... )

My LJ style-thingie broke sometime recently, and all the subject lines were blacked out, so I've changed it, for the first time since - oh, I don't know, 2001? Yeah, I'm that sort of guy.
This needs some getting used to. I don't deal well with change.

On a happier note: our child care subsidies finally got approved, so we not longer need to pay ( Read more... )

"USAGE NOTE   Decimate originally referred to the killing of every tenth person, a punishment used in the Roman army for mutinous legions. Today this meaning is commonly extended to include the killing of any large proportion of a group. Sixty-six percent of the Usage Panel accepts this extension in the sentence The Jewish population of Germany was ( Read more... )

Look what I found on the way to university yesterday:


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