rants

Does this look familiar? [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/notice-of-confidentiality.gif) Keelan at the Capital PR blog wonders what the point is of these email notice of confidentiality disclaimers : Is all this text really necessary in every email sent from every person in your organization? ...

On Dr. Yoni Freeedhoff’s Weighty Matters blog today about “Tickers”, the cafeteria at the Ottawa Heart Institute : ** ** Eat at Tickers too often and heaven help your tickers. While there may be a healthy option here or there, the bulk of the food served at Tickers is junk food. ...

Here’s a fun post from the Elgin Street Irregulars blog: Ten Things I Hate About You – all about the Sparks Street Mall. Highlights: * 4. Wanna ride your relatively unobtrusive eco-friendly bicycle down Sparks? Pay a hefty fine. ...

** Zoom has a post on knitnut.net titled " Mayor Larry’s Snow Job “: ** A snow tax! Can you believe it? As if we haven’t suffered enough this winter. Talk about adding insult to injury. I only heard about it a few minutes ago, but right off the top of my head, I have three problems with Mayor Larry’s proposed $50 per household snow tax. ...

Alison on the Party of 3 blog has a gentle rant about winter: Dear Winter, Although it hurts me to do this, I have to tell you that it's over between us. This relationship has gone on for too long now and I just don't feel the same way about you that I used to. ...

Check out Richard Akerman’s take on Ottawa’s new light rail plan . (Warning: swear words!) ** ** Honestly, just call the train a tram, which is more accurate, and build the f*****g thing. Everyone's all "billions of dollars blah blah blah" ...

Megan rants about President’s Choice Blue Menu Two-Bite Brownies . A sample: ** ** "Our great tasting PC Blue Menu products offer healthier options without sacrificing the flavours you love. The big blue menu on the front of each package shouts out why the product is a better choice so that making better choices is simple! ...

Today’s great rant comes from the Independent Observer on the ELgiN StreEt iRReguLars blog. It’s a complaint about The Current, a daily program on CBC Radio. Here’s a sample: ** ** I realize the men and women of the fourth estate must dutifully skulk among the dregs of our ailing global village, overturning slimy stones in an effort to expose the charlatans and evildoers of the age. ...

Keelan from Capital PR rants about bad corporate e-Christmas cards: ** ** For me, nothing says “I refuse to put any effort or expense whatsoever into this” quite like an e-Christmas / e-Holiday card does... a lot of them have been very similar: a winter scene with the ‘cutting-edge animation’ of falling snow and some generic, unoriginal greeting. ...

Several local bloggers are complaining today about city council’s decision to hike bus fares by 7.5% in each of the next three years. Blake Batson writes: I’m mad, disappointed and discouraged at 16 Councillors who feel that solving budget problems should be done on the backs of those who can least afford it. ...