Things I would not want to explain to my boss...

An officer of the Cape Breton Regional Police reportedly shot himself in the leg during a drug bust. The force calls it an "accidental discharge", I call it one extraordinarily unfortunate cop. Just try explaining to your boss that you managed to shoot yourself during a bust. That's what I call effective law enforcement.

Another person who has some explaining to do is the IT guy who put a reference to the new iPhone on AT&T's website. The reference to 'iPhone Black' appeared on a customer service page AT&T uses to do self-service and tech support. Not a big leak at this point when most media outlets are treating a June release for a new, 3G-equipped iPhone as a virtual certainty, but a reasonably skilled IT guy should now how to make a feature go live only at a prescribed date and time. I'll bet his boss is less than thrilled.

This last item is not related to my theme, but I was surprised to find out that there is a major chain that NYC does not have, namely IKEA. In a city with a three-story Victoria's Secret flagship store, one would think that funky Swedish furniture and housewares would not be a catalogue order given the ubiquity of IKEA. That situation will be corrected June 18 when a location in Brooklyn's Red Hook nieghborhood.