"Yeah, that's him"

A friend of mine was just watching over my shoulder as I was checking my e-mail and he saw that at the top of my inbox was a message from "David Frum", and naturally my friend asked if that David Frum was the same David Frum who is the noted author and former Bush speechwriter, I casually and almost dismissively replied "Which other David Frum is there?"

And so the impression was created that I regularly correspond with David Frum - or something like that.

In actuality, his e-mail was about 2 sentences long, acknowledging an e-mail I sent to him yesterday urging him to make note on his blog of the Prime Minister's recent visit to Afghanistan.

Since Frum's blog is probably read by a number of powerful people in Washington (congressmen, senior white house aides, etc.), I thought it would be really unfortunate if Harper's visit wasn't communicated to that audience.

And fortunately, today he mentioned it! All because of me!

(In actuality, my e-mail was either just a coincidence since he was going to mention it anyway, or on the other end, it could've been a small part of a larger chorus of Canadian e-mails urging him to mention the trip.)