Here’s a larger chunk of the Guardian article that ran this morning headed “Watching our neighbours,” and written by Jim Day:

The actual number of people residing in the province who are eligible to vote in Tuesday’s United States election is not known. About 600,000 U.S. expatriates living in Canada have registered in time to vote.

Peter Rukavina of Charlottetown is one of them.

Rukavina, who has dual Canada/U.S. citizenship, considers himself a citizen of the United States. Although he spent only the first four months of his life living in the States, the website developer is in the U.S. on business about six weeks a year.

“I consider it a duty to vote,” he said.

Rukavina said he has been following this U.S. election more closely than any in the past. He has cast his ballot by mail for Kerry, which, he said, is really more a vote against Bush.

He has concerns with Bush’s war in Iraq. He said the president seems arrogant and unwilling to listen to other opinions.

Rukavina said he has friends in the United States who say they would seriously consider moving to Canada if Bush is re-elected.

“I think they just don’t feel they can stay in a country that Bush represents,” he said.

As a result of this excerpt, Catherine received four angry telephone calls this morning from Guardian readers while I was out at the market with Oliver.

In general, I was accused by the callers — all of whom somehow assumed that venting to Catherine was reasonable in lieu of me — of being some combination of anti-God, anti-family, a draft-dodger, a university professor, or naive about the war.

While everyone is entitled to their opinion, it does seem a little much to make unsoliticed Saturday morning calls, to my partner, about political disagreements. Send me a letter. Write me an email. Disparage me on your weblog. Rent a billboard.

From an article in today’s Guardian:

Rukavina said he has friends in the United States who say they would seriously consider moving to Canada if Bush is re-elected.

“I think they just don’t feel they can stay in a country that Bush represents,” he said.

We encountered several models of parking kiosks during our European travels, all generally similar to the new ones in Charlottetown.

The ones in Zagreb were, like everything else in Zagreb, covered with graffiti. But you could pay for parking with your cell phone.

The kiosks in Italy had no graffiti, and were quite elegant to boot.

I actually used one of the new Charlottetown kiosks yesterday, and it worked as advertised.

And I got to wondering: if the kiosks are all wirelessly in communication with some sort of central server, and the local parking cops are all outfitted with wireless gizmos of some sort, is there a system in place to do automatic “route planning” for the cops, based on areas where there are likely infractions given recent activity? Here’s a description of the Argus software that the City uses to administer the machines; it’s not clear how sophisticated it is in this regard.

Interesting tangent: the kiosks are made by a Swedish company.

The Firefox/Mac hidden window bug that was fixed in recent nightly builds remains fixed in the latest Firefox Release Candidate. And the Release Candidate version doesn’t have the bug that prevented “right-clicking” that recent nightly builds did.

Which is to say: the Release Candidate is approaching browser perfection on a Mac.

The strangest thing about the new iPod Photo is that it is not a camera. I think a lot of people are going to assume that it is.

Here’s the top story on CBC Prince Edward Island right now:

And, at the same hour, here’s the top story on CBC Nova Scotia:

This is how I know I’m living in the right province.

Daniel Burka does TV. Neato.