May. 29th, 2002

purpletigron: In profile: Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts from Dr Who (Default)
I don't know how many of you know, but there is a big bruh-ha-ha going on at the moment about poor conditions in cocoa (and, hence, chocolate) production. There appears to be evidence of child slavery, appalling working conditions, poverty-level wages, wanton environmental degradation, the whole nine yards. A bunch of Web site have discussions about this: and loads more that any search engine should quickly find you.

Well, if you think that so-called `fair trade' is one way to address the real problems in the world cocoa industry, then there's another Web page that might interest you. M&M's are taking votes until this Friday 31 May on a new color, and Global Exchange are organizing a `write-in bid' for the new color to be `Fair Trade Certified'. FYI, the URL is: http://gcv.mms.com/us/vote_color.jsp, and you can vote for any colour that you want...
purpletigron: In profile: Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts from Dr Who (Default)
Can anyone explain to me, how does the time get set on LJ comments? The local time appears to be correctly set in my own journal entries, presumably from my system clock. But I just made a posting (19:45 local time, give or take), in reply to a posting that was made at 14:35 for that LJer's local time (I presume), and my comment was given the time of 11:45.

Huh?

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