Sackville, an enduring, proud maritime tradition. Allow me to present:

Baron Sackville
Sackville, Nova Scotia
Sackville, New Brunswick
Lower Sackville
Middle Sackville
Upper Sackville
Sackville Bus
Sackville Street
Sackville High School
Sackville River
Historic Sackville
HMCS Sackville
Sackville Public Library

Can we ever get enough Sackville?

Wow.

I honestly wouldn't have thought it possible that the liberals (of all people) would be the first to catch on to the other major environmental trend of the 21st century. I'm quite curious to see how this plays out. Given the shoddy record of public debate so far on climate change, I don't really have much faith in the short term that ( Read more... )

Spent some time today planting tomato, basil, cucumber, and green onion seeds in yogurt containers... less than two weeks before the last frost here in Halifax. I've been *meaning* to start a garden for the last 3 years or so, it feels very good to finally take the first necessary steps. Here's hoping that I'll be able to eat at least one or two of ( Read more... )

Two interesting stories on cbc.ca today, on the soaring prices of grain and gasoline, respectively. Conveniently, of course, these two necessities aren't factored in to the measure of inflation ("core inflation") that central banks and governments use when making decisions. Ah well, what's an extra $50 a month (or so) to the people that really ( Read more... )

I guess I deserve every one of them for being such a smart ass.

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:07:57 -0300
From: William Lachance
To: Air Canada
Subject: Re: Air Canada - Booking confirmation

On 10/31/07, Air Canada wrote:
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Ok.

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William Lachance
wrlach@gmail.com

A great deal of hay has been made recently about the "rising" Canadian dollar. I really think this is the wrong way of looking at things. It would be more appropriate to say that the U.S. dollar is sinking. Hard. Why is this? I think the basic pattern is pretty simple to understand ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I spent some time working with George Kenney over at Electric Politics to improve some aspects of his site, upgrading it to Movable Type 4.0, improving the site archives and adding OpenID support to the comments section. It was a great deal of fun, and I hope to do some more work with him in the future ( Read more... )

I just posted an article to advogato on the proper use of assertions. Perhaps I'm wrongheaded, but I truly believe that the software I use on a regular basis would be of much higher quality if people actually read and used the advice contained therein. If you want to comment, but don't have an advogato account, you may do so here.

For what it's worth... I encourage anyone living in Halifax to do the same. You can find the name/contact information of your councilor here:

http://www.halifax.ca/districts/index.html

Subject: Pending Halifax Transit Strike
From: William Lachance To: kellyp@halifax.ca ( Read more... )

apenwarr: Your bit of economic theory is interesting, but I'm still pretty certain the key driver here is supply and demand, not price optimization. See, for example, the testimony by Paul Sankey before the U.S. congress on the subject: "Gouging is an Idiotic Explanation"The facts are simple: domestic demand in the U.S. for gasoline (refined crude ( Read more... )