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January 24, 2014 by Robin Rowland

Marmite kept my father alive.

Updates with CFIA statement saying Marmite not banned When I was a little kid my father insisted—yes insisted—that I eat my Marmite. This morning I woke up to the news that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has apparently banned Marmite, a yeast extract spread, in this country, along with some other British “comfort foods.” (After […]
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November 1, 2009 by Robin Rowland

The CBC logo is a real smart idea, IBM “smattah planet” borrows the pizza

IBM’s smarter planet ad campaign had been on television for sometime, with “ordinary” folks from around the world talking about smarter cities, smarter everything, to be answered by others saying “I’m an IBMer.” While I am a CBCer and have worked for many years under the expanding C logo of  Mother Corp,  also known as […]
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November 1, 2009 by Robin Rowland

Delayed blog launch no more

I’ve been postponing relaunching my blog as Robin’s Weir for a couple of reasons. First, I still want to do some tweaks with the Movable Type interface but haven’t had the time to figure it out yet. Second, I’ve been too busy with work work and personal work. But on this somewhat blustery afternoon I […]
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September 17, 2009 by Robin Rowland

Robin’s new blog is launched

With the unfortunate death of the old “garret tree,” killed by a fierce late summer Ontario thunderstorm, at the same time that I was redesigning my website,  I decided the time had come to launch a new blog. So I shut down The Garret Tree. So now Robin’s Weir will be my blog on photography, […]
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