Kevin O'Donnell's blog

A hat tip to OpenFile Ottawa for digging up the "2007 Interprovincial Roadside Truck Survey". OpenFile's key takeway from the report was: Read more »

Ontario is fighting a deficit. That means each month the 10% "Clean Energy Benefit" is paid for by new debt. I can't put an end that that right now, but at least I can put my money where my mouth is by redirecting the money that was "borrowed on my behalf" to useful purposes.

This month $11.59 goes to Causeway Work Centre for the good work they do in Ottawa. Like RightBike and Cycle Salvation. Read more »

Two "want to tinker with this" impulses combined to yeild: Read more »

I have absolutely no use for the Yellow Pages.

If you want to opt-out of YP delivery then use this form every two years. After two years they put your house back on the list for delivery.

Thank goodness for my biennial Google calendar reminder.

Hundreds of photos have been submitted to the 2012 GPO calendar contest. Obviously I'd like you to look at all of them - but in the interest of saving you some time, if you just want to go vote on the images below (which just happen to be my submissions) then that's fine too. Read more »

I said almost exactly the same thing at a recent dinner party, though I would add "and tax it".

(from this CBC article on Stephen Blais' suggestions on curbing gang violence)

From Cycling and car-shares produce small but significant drop in oil use (Globe & Mail), here's the money quote: Read more »

I got an Eye.Fi card for my camera yesterday from Henry's. Very neat to just turn on my Android phone's WIFI hotspot while I finish the bike ride to work and voila: pictures already uploaded!

I stayed at Bridgehead too long and missed most of the good "Golden Hour" light. Only three pics from Maplelawn turned out. Gallery.

You can help put clean water and prime farmland ahead of aggregates mines.  Speak out today! Read more »