[Tag search]
Thursday 28 August 2014, 18:59
I don't think I have officially mentioned this here on my Web log yet,
but here it is: I am moving to Denmark to work as a postdoc in the
Scaleable Similarity Search project at the IT University of Copenhagen.
This is a one-year temporary position with a possible renewal for a second
year.
As I type this, I am in my apartment in Winnipeg, sitting on top of my
modular synthesizer in its Pelican case because that is the closest thing to
furniture that hasn't been taken away by either the movers or Goodwill.
Saturday 21 April 2012, 12:24
The latest evidence regarding the Conservative Party's fraudulent activities in the last Canadian federal election hits close to home for me because I live, and voted, in Winnipeg South Centre, one of the ridings subject to a court challenge by the Council of Canadians. The affidavit of Annette Desgagne is quite damning; people are calling it a smoking gun. One small ray of hope is that it's pretty clear this was all coordinated centrally, and probably by a small conspiracy. Much as I dislike the Conservative Party as an entity, I think there are some decent people within it, and it's likely a whole lot of them didn't know about the fraud and are as shocked by it as the rest of us. Most of the checks and balances of Canadian democracy have been emasculated under Harper, but it still remains that we can try appealing to the decent people within the Conservative Party to weed their own garden. Below is what I'm mailing to Joyce Bateman, CPC Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre.
Saturday 31 December 2011, 21:43
It's the end of 2011, and I'm writing this from my parents' home in
Nanaimo, where I'm visiting over the year-end holidays. If you ask me how
this past year has gone, I'd have to say it's been mixed. Some good things
have happened; some not so good; and my current situation is what I'd call
metastable.
Saturday 8 January 2011, 15:42
The firewall box does seem to be dead. It's quite possible that some parts of it are salvageable, but it appears that I can also reconfigure the MTS DSL box to do most of the firewalling I would like, and that doesn't cost me anything in replacement parts. Given that I'm already over budget on such things as the movers' fees, and doormats, I'm going to go that route and keep the firewall box for parts. More moving-in notes below.
