Orwell's blog

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George Orwell started blogging!
That is quite an achievement considering he died in 1950!
Actually, the Orwell Prize is publishing his diaries in the blog form, matching the dates of the diary and the blog with the delay of 70 years.

We are in day 5 of the Olympics and still no medal for Canada. After all the pre-olympic boasting, it's becoming very likely that my grim prognosis will come true.

In all the previous Olympics the cheating was done by some doped athletes. Beijing's are the first Olympics in which the cheaters are the organizers. Today's media is full of the damnation of the glorious opening ceremony, after it was revealed that some scenes of the breathtaking fireworks were pre-taped and added to the broadcast as "live". Another faux pas was the lip-synched song of a gorgeous 9-year-old girl during the ceremony. Apparently, the voice was of a 7-year-old audition winner whose face was "too chubby" and teeth "not straight", so the organizers picked a tune-deaf but pretty girl instead to lip-sync.

Back home, all is as usual--I closed the office door at work to keep the annoyance out of it. After work I went for a 13 km run and was congratulated by Nike+ iPod for running over 1,500 km (1,505 to be precise) since November last year. Not bad for an old codger! And now, as soon as I post this entry, a glass of milk and a slice of German marble cake topped with nutella spread wait for me.