{"id":158,"date":"2008-02-27T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T16:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-02-27T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T16:25:40","slug":"ottawa-budget-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/ottawa-budget-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Budget 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Previous years budgets:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=156\">2007<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=60\">2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">This year? More of the same, but a couple of twists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Miscommunication: \u00a0&#8221; Cc everyone on this list with these 12 Word files. \u00a0What? \u00a0You mean you cc&#8217;d everyone on the list with those Word files?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Confusion: \u00a0&#8220;The absorption system will accept doc, rtf and body text files, but I&#8217;m sorry the absorption system will not accept doc files.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">However, I swaggered around and shot some picsh of the same kinds of stuff again as in previous years: \u00a0Journalists interviewing journalists. Journalists concentrating incredibly hard. \u00a0That sort of thing. \u00a0I was really paying attention to the video and sound guys this time, with those poor sound guys looking like little hang-dog puppies tethered to their mummies holding the betacams. \u00a0I shot a lot of those guys:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-soundguy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-interview2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-interview3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-interview1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-canadiangothic.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">But there is always other cool stuff going on. \u00a0This year the biz was held in the old train station in Ottawa, which had these great columns on sides of the main room that were basically for display, and unintentionally useful for coiling cables:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-column.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">Trouble was, the columns turned out to be HOLLOW. \u00a0Figures&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-column2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">And here is a Ken Danby homage:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-danby.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">This was, I thought, a particularly egregious use of public funds and hugely misleading in an emergency, until I noticed it referred to the 40 foot long painting above my head and not the fire alarm. \u00a0I especially liked that the piece was called &#8220;Escalation&#8221; and had a fire alarm beneath it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-firealarmasart.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">I thought this guy in the Global TV room had the right idea by reading Stephen King. \u00a0The whole event&#8217;s a bit of a horror show anyway:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-globalking.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\">The Globe and Mail<\/a> always has a scrum for its people, about 2 hours into the budget to see where the ground lies and who is going to focus on what story:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-scrum.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">This guy told me I couldn&#8217;t take pictures in this area. \u00a0But this was after I watched him sit like this for five minutes and had the sound of my shutter wake him up. \u00a0I suggested he sic the RCMP on me if he felt like it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-taxdollarsatwork.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">And just what the heck does this thing do?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-whatdoesthisdo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">Your CBC tax dollars hard at work in the CBC video control room. \u00a0Note token arty type in the rear, complete with major grump on. \u00a0The vets were cheerful anyway:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-cbcvideo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">And here is a pano of the main room full of journalistic fervour and Canadian earnest&#8230;itude:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; min-height: 15px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; margin: 0px\">Enroute to Ottawa by train&#8230; \u00a0Well, don&#8217;t <strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong> wonder what happens if that lever gets pulled?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget08-trainpull.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal Geneva; 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