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I am so on board with Joe’s anti CNN stance. I just saw a horrible segment essentially ridiculing Canada because of the stance on softwood lumber. The segment said “the WTO agrees with Canada”, sadly the NAFTA dispute resolution has not agreed FIVE times now, as recently as three weeks ago. The report said “over lumber, yes lumber” noting its only 4% of trade – I guess NAFTA should only apply to larger industries.

They also took pains to elaborate on Canada being dependent on US trade as if we should be grateful as a country that they even allow us to trade with them – we are the largest importer of American exports though with 2 million American jobs dependent on that. I will say only 25% of Canadian GDP was exports until NAFTA, now its over 45%, something Canadian politicians need to be accountable for, because we are now too dependent on exporting to the US, but to suggest we should be grateful… It ruffled a few feathers that politicians here mentioned cutting off the oil supply from Canada (which is probably grandstanding only). Then of course the segment tied it to the obligatory border security and war in Iraq as other sources of “conflict”.

I was somewhat perplexed by the fact I saw multiple CFL (Canadian Football League) games on television during my stay in Boston. Who knew. For those that care, yes there is canadian football and it differs from american football in the following ways: 12 men on the field, field is 10 yards longer and a bit wider (5 yards i think), endzones are 20 yards long, field goal posts are an the front of the end zone, no fair catch, single point for a touch back, no limit to the number of men in motion.

WRT Evolution and mozilla as the editor, we generally liked the idea, because who wants to maintain a html parser displayer if they don’t have to, but there were always worries about how to keep all the editing and layout functionality.

Calum: it is unfortunate Sun doesn’t get enough a11y credit – all evolution a11y work was done by Sun.

Man, I was totally at the party where the Retroscope was show cased for the first time!

Nagappan’s Blog contains some relevant LDTP information.

Talked to Dave Malcolm, JRB, Blizzard about automated UI testing. Hopefully we can all resolve this shortly – I even heard a rumor Dave can import LDTP scripts now.

I thought that LDTP was announced and public enough that it would be the starting base for an automated UI test suite. Now with Dogtail we have competing UI automation projects within GNOME. Seems like wasteful duplication.

Perhaps there were technical issues or conflicting goals, but both appear to use python scripts and a11y to automate tests, and both have test case sets. Hopefully these two can be quickly combined.