No good deed goes unpunished.

From the realms of the truly bizarre comes this story about an Ohoian man arrested for mowing the grass in an Ohio park:

John Hamilton plans to fight the charges against him.

Authorities arrested Hamilton at 8:30 a.m. Thursday as the 48-year-old mowed the foot-high grass at Central Park. Police charged the Sunset Drive resident with obstructing official business and persistent disorderly conduct.

Wow, I hope they're right about his

Interesting rumours about Apple's coming announcements.

Cdn Deficit will be bigger -- much bigger

I don't think anyone should be really surprised by news that the Canadian federal deficit will be much, much, larger than we had been led to believe.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Monday the federal deficit will be "substantially more" than the government projected in January's 2009-2010 budget.

The initial deficit forecast was $34 billion. But Flaherty said that government revenues have been hit harder by the recession than expected.

"We will run a larger deficit in this year than anticipated in January, and I'll report further on that when the government reports to the people of Canada and Parliament in June with our update," he said.

The government has also forecast a $30-billion deficit for 2010-2011, and more deficits in the following three years.

Gee, it seemed like it was only a few months ago that Harper was claiming he'd never run another deficit.

Makes you proud to be Canadian…

Not quite. An awful lot of the world's medical isotopes are produced in Canada at Chalk River. This was shut down a couple weeks ago when a leak was discovered in one of the aging reactors. This is not good.

Apple To Slow Pace Of Major OS X Releases

Mac Observer notes that Apple has admitted to what many of us had thought: updates to the Mac Operating System have been slowing down.

During his talk, Tevanian said Apple has made great progress in making its products a good fit for businesses but said it will take time before they are seen that way.

"We've not been strong in that market in the recent past at all," he said. "We don't expect people to automatically just believe that this product is the best thing for them."

"Our goal right now is to just have people take a look," Tevanian said. "I think most people who take a look and have an open mind will be very pleasantly surprised."