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Sometimes things take a while to make it to Canada. The nutrition facts label on pre-packaged food was introduced in the U.S. in 1994. Canadians had to wait until 2005 for a similar labeling scheme. When it comes to the scourge of unwanted telemarketing phone calls it's no different. The U.S. National Do Not Call Registry came into effect in 2003. Five years later, Canada is finally getting a do-not-call list . It should be operational this fall ( September 30th, so they say ). The bad news (as I see it) is that there are some exemptions. Even if we sign up, we'll still get calls—whether we want them or not—from charities, political parties, polling companies and companies with whom we have existing business relationships. I can see the argument for allowing charities to make fundraising calls, but I still disagree. When I give to a charity, I want as much of my donation as possible to go to the cause, not to pay for fundraising. I suspect that a lot of money is wasted on ...

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. —George Santayana

My son has written a program to calculate the logarithm using any base. Be careful of splinters! The log base of For more stuff about logarithms see my posts: log base 2 and double, double toil and trouble . And of course, don't forget Wikipedia .

When I think of SAS, it's usually the Statistical Analysis System I have in mind. But there are about 50 other meanings. (Not everyone likes the word disambiguation, but I think it's helpful in cases like this!) One meaning of SAS is the Scandinavian Airlines System . I bring this up because my father was a scandinavophile. Below is his hand-drawn map of Greenland. On the southern part of the West coast of Greenland is a place with the Danish name Søndre Strømfjord (Kangerlussuaq in the Kalaallisut language). If you look closely, it's marked by a little red mark (it's an airplane symbol) on the map about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Søndre Strømfjord has a fascinating aerospace history that began in 1941 with the establishment of a U.S. air base and has continued right up to the present day. Hey, it's only 3 hours to the North Pole! Part of the history of Søndre Strømfjord is described (in rather grandiose language) on the SAS website: Polar explorat...