I'm intending to do a bit more blogging so I've re-enabled comments and trackbacks for now. I'll take a leisurely look at how to get Akismet working properly to block spam, but I'll see if there's a problem first. Its pretty trivial to turn off comments

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This blog is written by Cameron McDermaid using Blosxom perl based blog software and various and sundry plugins. I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and am currently working as an epidemiologist for the City of Ottawa.

Plugins of note include:

• Frank Hecker's Feedback plugin
• David Grajal's twitter plugin
• Seo Seokjin's Smartylink plugin

The current visual theme of the page is the excellent Graffiti theme by Kozo Avo

(well, three of them) from my sisters visit to Ottawa You can see them here

She and her husband, Darryl, were here on a business trip for Darryls work as an independant insurance broker in Saskatchewan. He's president of the association and his visit to Ottawa is part of the burden of power.

Of course, no trip to Ottawa is complete without a picture under Maman

If you want to see camera geeks, this is the place to go. I've never seen so many macro lenses in my life. The weather this year co-operated better than last year though, so it was a nice wander with my friend Kelly on a Saturday. You can see the pics here

While I was in at the local vintages looking for some Hine Cognac (which wasn't there), I tripped across some Aberlour A' Bunadh. This is a very yummy Speyside cask strength single malt with a great caramel/butter nose and flavour. I've been hoarding my last bottle, drinking it very sparingly. I scooped a new one so now I can enjoy it without a guilty conscience.