The library computers at Dana Porter (where I am right now) now have Mozilla Firefox installed. I think this is a good move. I suggested that in a survey months ago and now it has happened. I haven’t checked DC, but I assume that all computers at Waterloo are like this.

Last week some free-lancer wrote a story about actors in academia (Actors in academia, Torst, 10 April) He or she described actors from Hollywood lecturing at universities.

…last year actress (and Kiefer Sutherland’s mom) Shirley Douglas lectured on universal health care at Ryerson University

It seems like he or she was squirreling these events into his or her thesis. Perhaps she has an interest, expertise, or knowledge about healthcare — not from being an actor or from being Keifer’s mom, but being Tommy Douglas’s daughter.

Eugene Levy conducted a tutorial at the University of Toronto alongside L.A. talent agents and managers on how to get an agent in the U.S. in 2002.

Eugene wrote in and pointed out that the seminar happened at Hart House, was not for a university course, and was on a topic about which he has knowledge. He wrote that if the writer had done research “you would be reading another letter here.” It just seems dumb. I wonder if the writer incurs any penalty for stupid errors.

It is the anniversary of the battle at Vimy ridge during the Great War. When I was younger I toured Vimy ridge. I wrote a story about it for Remembrance Day years ago. I’d like to see it again now that the monument has been restored.