We’re clearing out our “items to blog” file tonight. Here are three recent items seen on David Reevely’s Ottawa Watch Greater Ottawa blog that deserve a mention: ** ** 1. [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/Google-Maps_1195262386859.png) Mapping Ottawa: David McLelland has started a very colourful Google map showing Ottawa's neighbourhoods. ...

Scott Feschuk rants about Ottawa’s Remembrance Day ceremony on his Maclean’s blog: If you go to the ceremony, here’s what you discover. You’ll discover it is pretty much impossible to see anything. Depending on where you end up, you’ll discover that it’s pretty much impossible to hear anything. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/octranspo-Interesting-picture_1194828041765.png) Here’s a nice pic posted to the OC Transpo Community on Live Journal. The photo shows one of Ottawa’s streetcars, on Wellington Street in front of Union Station (now the Government Conference Centre). The Daly Building is on the left - now torn down and replaced by a condo . ...

Over on the Postcards from the Mothership blog, DaniGirl has posted a great round-up of all of the Santa Claus parades in the Ottawa area , plus some more big Christmas events in the Nation’s Capita ** l. Related: ** Ottawa Events Guide

Yoni Freedhoff posted an open letter to the Heart and Stroke Foundation on his Weighty Matters blog. Here’s a snippet: ** ** ...Since starting to pay attention to the Heart and Stroke's Health Check program, I have been regularly shocked and frankly appalled by many of the products, recipes and meals that have secured Health Checks and am very concerned that the Health Check program is not only not steering Canadians to healthier choices, but rather steering Canadians to truly unhealthy ones. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Ping-Pong_1193619377453.png) With sadness, we report that Andrew Knapp’s wonderful ping pong photoblog is coming to an end. Andrew posted this note last week: ** ** Well folks, this is it. The last post you'll see on Ping Pong. ...

We received this email today from a reader named Kathie: ** ** To the folks who borrowed my friend’s stuff permanently while on your ATV’s: Back about 3 weeks ago, you came to my friend’s camp in Perkins, on Rue Lac Croche, (Lac Serpent). ...

Today’s rant comes from knitnut.net . Here’s a snippet from post titled Baby buggies on the bus bug me (awesome alliteration): Why do they have the stroller section at the very front of the bus? It just creates a bottleneck and an obstacle course for everybody else, and I can’t believe the parents with the strollers like being in everybody’s way all the time. ...

Matthew Good played in Ottawa last week, and posted some pics of his audience to Flickr . What a good looking bunch of music fans. Apparantly his tour bus was vandalized during his visit here. Good blogged about it earlier this week in a post titled " Dear Cowards of Ottawa “. ...

[ NCC to Install Rideau Canal Skateway Chalets this Saturday ](http://www.ottawastart.com/story/6879.php) ** Related: ** Ottawa Winterlude Guide