Today a question on the TLUG mailing list asked about peoples' experience in shopping for computer components in the College/Spadina area of Toronto.

Most of what I want can be found inexpensively enough at Canada Computer at Yonge & Sheppard, TigerDirect, or a store whose name escapes me on the north side of Sheppard just west of Allen Road. If I really want the clone-parts experience, these days I would go to Pacific Mall, which IIRC has more hole-in-the-wall PC parts places than College & Spadina while boasting IMO the world's finest food court.

Here's a list of rapid transit systems I've been on, based on the subway logo page at http://metro.b3co.com. I try to avoid taxis, so I often take transit whenever I can, especially to and from the airport.

This week I attended two very different meetings at the Yorkwoods Library.

Monday, I was at the open house and a formal presentation regarding the work being done by the city and the York University Development Corporation to update the York Secondary Plan (a component of the city's Official Plan).

OK, so it's taken a while, but the site is up and going. There will be some new things I've been working on that may actually make this a place worth visiting again.

Congratulations are in order for the launching this past weekend of the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research (NCOSPR). This part think-tank, part resource centre and part lobby group is certainly welcomed and needed. Given the well-monied resources now being used to lobby against the preference for open source and open standards, it's about time that an organization came forward to extend the open source community in the fields of academia and politics in the way described on the NCOSPR website.