I just figured out that my current position as writer at CTV.ca News has lasted for just over two years and seven months as of this posting.

My last staff gig with Bell Globemedia Interactive -- which brought me to T.O. just over six years ago now -- lasted two years, six months and three weeks (that venture got blown up in early 2003).

This means CTV.ca is the second-longest staff tenure of my professional life since my nearly eight-year run at the Leader-Post in Regina ended in 1996 (for details on how that ended, read this; for a more exotic adventure in job loss, there's also this).

I should add the standard qualifier that based on previous experience, employment tenure is subject to change without notice. Hopefully this post isn't already obsolete (I suspect it isn't, but it is a crazy old world, so it's best to cover all possible bases in these matters. :) ).

The Globe and Mail's Robert Everett-Green calls the Hillside community music festival near Guelph the "hippest music event of the Ontario summer." That may be true, but it also might not be saying much about Ontario's summer musical festivals.

Read this.

British journalist Robert Fisk talks with Democracy Now! about the impact of having top political leaders in the United States and Britain with no military experience, and why the U.S. should get over 9/11 -- lest it increase the chances of another one.

AOL.com has developed a list of the 111 wussiest songs ever recorded.

However, in a transparent ploy to immediately destroy the list's credibility, they listed Terry Jack's Seasons in the Sun as number 110! (WTFF?!?!)

That makes it less wussy than Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is (74), Kenny Rogers' She Believes in Me (57), Donny Osmond's Puppy Love (47), and Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life (22).

There was a slight rebound when I saw Dan Hill's Sometimes When We Touch ("I wanna hold you/'Til the honesty's too much" ...) was number 2, although I can't say I agree with REM's Shiny Happy People taking the pole position.

Seasons In The Sun should have been a slam dunk for at least the top 11. Easily one of the worst songs ever recorded, let alone the wussiest. An example:

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach

My version:

I felt anger I felt pain
When I heard that song again
Terry Jacks' insipid tune
Managed my mood to ruin

OK, not exactly Bob Dylan either, but if you can do better, go nuts.

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, leader of the Orange Revolution, has nominated Viktor Yanukovych as his prime minister.

If I remember correctly Yushchenko's supporters opposed pretty much everything Yanukovych -- candidate of the pro-Russian establishment kleptocracy -- stood for, yet the big guy said he did this for national unity. Oh, and to break a four-month political deadlock.