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It is traditional to wish everyone a happy new year on new years eve. It is also traditional to discuss the good and bad things from the past year, and our hopes for the future. As the year ends I find I'm thinking about some disturbing things. On December 4'th we saw the federal House of Commons prorogue. This was a sneaky procedural trick used by the prime minister in order to avoid (or delay) a coalition replacing his government. This event was the period in my mind to a sentence of events I had been observing. The fact that a massive number of Canadians thought that this procedural trick was appropriate reminded me of just how messed up we are as Canadians. Beyond Canada, similar trends around the world demonstrate how our lack of understanding of our current situation appears to make us incapable of making positive changes towards the future. While there are many issues I wish to discuss, our governments are a critical decision making body. We need to understand how ...

I was just listening to episode 55 of Spark on Work 2.0 . Like many of Nora's shows, they seem to fit into bigger things that I'm thinking about. It turns out that I've already been thinking about my own changing work situation. (Note: This is being posted to blogger as I haven't yet set up a blog that is truly intended to be 'personal') First, some background. While I was still in University I kept bumping into people who thought they wanted to hire me. I kept having the same problem: I didn't find I agreed with the choices of my employer, including things that they did and/or that they asked me to do that I felt was unethical. After going through a series of jobs where I quit based on disagreements with my employer (and them trying to give me a raise as a "solution" to the problem), I chose to become self-employed in 1995 . As my own boss I could pick and choose my clients and hopefully have a good match. I ended up working largely NGO...

This isn't really my BLOG, at least not at this time. I do most of my blogging on the Digital Copyright Canada site. This is here because it turns out that Google has enabled Blogger to be an OpenID server, allowing me to use my Google account to log into any OpenID enabled site and not have to remember some site specific password. Maybe I will use this more in the future. In the interim, please see my personal home page for more of what I'm up to.