TRANSIT: Blair Station Changes

Noticing the eastbound exit for buses from Blair Station is being blocked off now. I'm guessing that the contractors for Phase 2 of Confederation Line construction are about to start building out new track towards Trim Road this spring.



And as for amenities within Blair Station, we already have publicly-accessible washrooms (finally!), and now we're about to build demand for them again. There used to be a snack shop before renovations began, run by Gateway. Now we have a new outfit moving in. Some of you will have heard of Happy Goat Coffee, right?

HUMAN RIGHTS: More from the Guardian

Zoe Williams on trans rights. No relation to me that I know of, but never mind that.

"Feminism, in my life’s experience of it, takes the side of the oppressed. That is our raison d’etre."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/10/feminist-solidarity-empowers-everyone-the-movement-must-be-trans-inclusive

TECH: Cloud Computing...AKA "Microservices"?

Am I right to link the concepts of "microservices" and "cloud computing" in my own mind after watching this video?

TECH/ENERGY: Batteries as Part of the Solutions Mix

Jon Klein notes some improvements in battery technologies and usages. With documentary linkages.

http://saskboy.wordpress.com/?p=10156

CULTURE: Unity (1918)

There is a stage play I watched with my mother at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, some months after my father died: Unity (1918). We saw it because the title and setting were linkages to my father's side of the family.

The end of World War One, leading as a contributing factor into the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918...

A distressing detail: the script is only available for sale in e-formats.

Op-Ed: Picard on US Politics

I saw an earlier version on Facebook, and wanted to spruce it up.

HEALTH: COVID-19 in Ottawa

So Ottawa's had its first case.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-first-coronavirus-case-1.5493650

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ciena-covid-19-1.5494471

DT-45's War Against the EU Began Tonight

So glad that I didn't watch his speech. I'd have been screaming like a damn banshee.