Many of you, Mukodu’s fine, upstanding, and tasteful blog readers, have asked for a way to get blog articles delivered to you by email. If you are one of this erstwhile crowd, please read on.

Thanks to the miracle of Internet technology, you can now choose from two shiny new email delivery options:

Option 1, a.k.a. “The Full Meal Deal”: You receive an email in HTML format with the full article text and images whenever a new article is posted.

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You can find out more and sign up on the blog. Please let us know by emailing mukodublog at mukodu dot com if you run into trouble. (With the site, that is.)

And of course, if you are suffering from email overload, the old standbys still work just fine: visiting the web site, or RSS updates.

Osh, a.k.a. “The Tech Department”

The Toronto Zombie Walk is tomorrow, Sunday October 21st, starting at 3:30pm.  The parade begins at Trinity Bellwoods Park and ends at Bloor Cinema.  It’s time to get your ghoul on.

Ontario’s next provincial election and an important referendum are happening tomorrow, Wednesday Oct 10. I’m writing this to encourage you to get out and vote, especially on the referendum.

To summarize the new system (MMP) compared to the existing system I would say the following:

The old system forces you to compromise between the quality of your local candidate and the party who you believe will do the best job for the province, because you can only have one vote.  Votes cast for the second best and third best riding candidates are not tallied in the electoral results for provincial leadership. 

The newly proposed MMP allows you to separate those judgements by voting for a candidate and then also voting for the party  you believe in.  Often people interested in representation from smaller parties do not actually vote for them because they have a preference between the two frontrunning political parties and therefore vote to block the party they like least.  Due to this process small parties (such as the green party) have less representation.  The second ballot for political party will reflect the true proportions of peoples’ political party preferences.

MMP needs a 60% majority to pass, so high voter turnout is particularly important. BC recently had a referendum on the same topic and fell just short with 58% approval.

Here are a few links that you can also refer to: wikipedia, the official referendum site and hitched.ca.

Hi All,

Quick technical nerd note:

Up until now the Mukodu blog has been running on blog software called “Typo”. We hit a number of technical problems with Typo, and so today we made the switch to a different software package: WordPress.

From what I can tell the transition went smoothly, so hopefully you don’t notice any glitches. But if you do see something wonky, please let me know by commenting on this blog post, or by sending an email to mukodublog at mukodu.com.

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What’s the motivation? Well, I’m interested in city life on the local and personal scale: ideas just starting to blossom, secrets just starting to unfold, things you hear about through the grapevine. That’s part of why I like Toronto so much: there’s so much good stuff going on – more than meets the eye or any one person can possibly keep pace with. My adventures are those of finding a handful of these good nuggets, which I plan to share with you, and I hope you will do the same in return.

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