I am in from the Montreal anarchist book fair. I staffed a book sales table. I was interviewed about our union on CKOT. Everything went well because I had money to spend. I bought some kids something and my wife things. I got a book by Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the City (New York: Continuum, 1993). I also got another book which will be secret because of its intelligence content. I got a DVD, some patches, a YoYo, a T-shirt for my wife, a tea towel, and a political tract on poverty and students from the students at the University of Stausburg. I got an anarchist green magazine.

I just reported items from our Joint and Health and Safety Committee workers caucus meeting to the other health and safety representitive from our union local. Our local's web site is down right now.

I am up early. We are going to the Montreal anarchist bookfair today. This is an activity of my union the Industrial Workers of the World. I will bring our book inventory on my palm in an Excel spreadsheet. My wife suggested some places to eat lunch in Montreal.

I recorded the first two lectures of my public law course. The professor is going quite slowly and covering definitions of law and public law.

My course is a 24 lecture course. Each lecture in this summer TV course is about 2.5 hours so the total lecture time for the course is about 60 hours. This is a second year course so really I would only have to spend double the amount of lecture time on the work. So I would need to spend 120 hours on the course besides watching the lectures. But I want to make sure I score an A- or better so I need about three times out of class time to class time ratio or 180/60 = 3. Given that I have done all the readings for the first five lectures I would guess I have put in about 10 hours at least so far. But this week I continued with more than required readings and started the recommended readings. I spent almost 2 hours on this this week mostly at the library. So I am at about 12 hours thus the ratio right now is 12/60 or .2 total. Leaving some 168 hours still to do. But since only one lecture has happened I am at a 12/2.5 = 4.8 ratio currently or good enough

I started watching the lectures in Canadian public law. Our government just survived a confidence vote and hopefully there will be a new social budget approved before long. The socialists are keeping this government in power.

Getting ready for first day of Spring/Summer term teaching assistant work.

I did not help with the newspapers this morning. I will do two hours of web mastering this morning. I also have to pick up my duties form at the mathematics and statistics school office then meet with my new supervisors this evening. They will assign hours then I wil submit the form tomorrow. Also tomorrow morning I have a workers causus meeting of our Joint Health and Safety Committee for the teaching assistant union and the university. So I will be going to campus later today and also tomorrow morning.

I had a union meeting yesterday to plan our union branches' attendance at the Montreal Anarchist bookfair next Saturday. This was the first meeting we have really had in half a year. I have some catching up on union paper work to do now.

One of our members who was in charge of our literature sales has made an excel spreadsheet of our inventory and I got it onto my palm with the idea that we would have the palm at the bookfair next weekend to do our inventory on the fly. We are all fairly technologically advanced anarachists although the one fellow worker works at very advanced levels with excel.

I have been reading about feminist science studies.

I have 14 books out right now from the school library. I also have about three books for my public law course. I have read about 5 lectures into the course now and am started on the sixth lecture. I have also been reading one course book on aboriginal rights in Canada. The third course book won't be covered until July.

I have been reading the feminist science studies reader fairly regularly and have finished the first part of that book. I have not been reading about XML, the math literature guide book, health and safety books, feminist law book, or anything about computer crime now for about two weeks.

I am reading about computers, operating systems, and the palm handheld computer. I also got cheap wireless data plan for my palm with the intention of being able to access my school email wirelessly

I have been placed on the preliminary hires list for the summer term. I have been given three sections. I suspect two sections are labs but the third section maybe a tutorial. I will email the professors by the end of Friday and attend their offices next week.

I went to the library today at school. I printed out the reserve readings list for the public law course. I also checked again in the book store for used books for my course and bought a used book on writing from sources. This is scholarly writing guide book I used in my computer ethics course in Fall 2000. I had loaned my copy to a friend who had lost it. But no great cost besides not having for two years it cost me less than 6$ today. This is only the price of a few slices of pizza.

I also bought another course pack on SAS for STAT3503 a regression course I took in 1999. I also bought the course pack for law course in medical issues in criminal law which I may take next winter and considered taking this past winter.

I got some printouts into a new notebook to use for my public law course. I don't really need a notebook with this computer and the fact that the lectures are on TV. But tradition dies later. I also read more of the textbook for the course and am on the sixth lecture in the textbook. I need to go to the library this week and read some of the courses recommended extra readings for the second lecture and other future lectures.

I am waiting for my grades for my data mining course. I renewed school library books over the web. I have to give a union web mastering training session for union staff on Tuesday. I will find out if I have been hired again as a summer TA soon.

Yes I study business and economics. I learned at the age of 20 that the year is divided into quarters in business. I am only saying this to report that I back up this blog up into four folders on my computer per year one for each quarter. I am preparing a binder or notebook for my public law course. I am including a hard copy of this blog in this binder. I am including all the blog entries from the year 2005. In other words a Year-To-Date printout. While I did this printout I spell checked each entry. I so far spell checked all of the first quarter of this year and corrected spelling errors for the first quarters entries.

I just spent some time checking requirments needed to upgrade my B.Math degree. In particular going into applied analysis would both interest me and be in line with my talents, and would be doable in a few years. I may study up to a credit in statistics next year namely the introductory course in stochastics and perhaps multivariant analysis or perhaps statistical computing.

I also checked out law courses and after this summer's public law course will only need half a credit to complete my BA honours and perhaps if I changed over to the business law course I would only need 2.5 more credits for that BA.

I read some more of the public law source books for the summer term course last night. I also took it easy and read for Dummies books on on-line health care, bioinformatics and Red Hat Fedora Linux.

I registered at noon today for the LAWS2005 public law course this summer.

I am taking a slight break in studies to read For Dummies books. I also am reading a novel titled The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa translated from French by Adriana Hunter.

Solidarity greetings to all workers on May day.

There is a computer book store closing on one of our main streets here. This past week they were offering three books for five dollars. I bought these three books:

LeVitus, Bob. Mac OS X Panther for Dummies (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004).

I am running panther right now on my eMac

Hall, Jon 'maddog', & Sery, Paul G. Red Hat Linux Fedora for Dummies (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004).

I am running Fedora Core 3 on my IBM PC sever right now.

Pouge, David. Palm Pilot: the Ultimate Guide: Mastering the Palm Organizers from Pilot 1000 to Palm VII (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1999).

I have owned a Palm IIIxe, a Palm Vx and now a Palm Tungsten W.

Yesterday the same store offered fifteen books for five dollars and the clerk threw in an extra book AOL for Dummies. These are six of the sixteen books I bought:

Pouge, David. Palm Pilot: the Ultimate Guide: Mastering the Palm Organizers from Pilot 1000 to Palm VII (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1999).

The copy I bought earlier in the week was missing the CD so I bought another copy with the CD this time

Pouge, David.The iBook for Dummies (Foster City, CA: IDG, 2000).

I have wanted an early model iBook. I have used someone else's iBook for surfing while on holidays.

Claverie, Jean-Michel, & Notredame, Cedric. Bioinformatics for Dummies (New York, NY, Wiley, 2003).

I have a passing interest in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Tejkowski, Erick. Cocoa Programming for Dummies (New York, NY: Wiley, 2003).

I have not programmed Macs much.

Kaufeld, John. AOL for Dummies (New York, NY: Wiley, 2003).

Wolinsky, Howard, & Wolinsky, Judi. Healthcare Online for Dummies (New York, NY: Hungry Minds, 2001).

I got a OS X Panther for Dummies, Fedora Core Linux for Dummies and an O'Reilly book on the Palm Pilot all for 5$ at a computer book store closing sale. I might go back there later today get some more books. I also want to look at microwaves later today. I also have to take the paper version of my final project to school today.

I flipped through Sherly Hamilton's MA and then found a reference to Susan Hacker who Dawn Moore had meantioned. I then surfed the library web site and found Hacker's book. I clicked on some links in her books library listing or as we used to say index card. I then surfed the MA collection on-line and found some MA's on feminism. Then looked up a fellow workers MA and then some MA's that my honours paper supervisor had been an advisor for. I then looked up M.Sc.s that Shirley Mill's has been an advisor for. Then I ordered a download of all these and the download instructions are being sent to my school email address.

I send my final project files to the professors Dr. Mills and Dr. Normington. I may not work on this anymore. It cost me my attendence at the symposium in crime prevention and disablities but it was fun and challenging to do this final project. I also learned quite a bit about R the open source statistical software.

Maybe this data mining course will allow me to attend graduate school in statistics. I am really on holidays from school now. I will start to get ready for my public law course this summer.

I stayed up Tuesday until about 4 PM Wednesday. I volunteered to staff a union voting table during Wednesday late morning and early afternoon. I had a good talk with a PhD. student in computer science about data mining and education for mature students. I also chatted with our union's business agent about the new deal our federal government made with the New Democrats to keep the government alive. Ya ya I was pretty chatty after no sleep. When I got home I blew my top and there is no excuse for that.

I read my lecture notes from my data mining course and then today was able to get a trees classification to at least plot although comparing residuals did not work for a basic trees proceedure and when I did a confusion matrix for an rpart proceedure it looked pretty bad. Again I am favouring logit regression as the best result seems to be with logit regression. I did work out a test of logit regression but don't seem to have a print out for it yet. The test was to build the logit model with the test data using the model from the training data but I made all kinds of errors trying to do that at the different dimensions I had used for logit. I got that done today. I worked for about five hours today on the final project.

I used yahoo.ca's video search to search out video's about statistics. I found some basic statistics videos. I will try to watch them on my PSP. I also searched out Green Party videos.

Well I divised my own code finally to test a model using the found model's predictive abilities on the test data. I spent about an hour and a half on this so I did work on homework tonight. So I will now write up the logistic regression models and move on to other models. I have at least four more techniques/models to try before I can say I am done.

I will keep working on this assignment/project which is due Saturday and only if I get it done will I be able to attend the symposium at the end of this week. I have about 35 hours until the symposium begins.

Since I am going to a Crime Prevention and Disabilities symposium this week I searched Lexis and the library's journals and found some articles but nothing specifically right on the money. I guess this is a new field.

I may not be able to attend after all with all my ebay surfing I still have a lot of statistics studies to complete before April is over. I also want to volunteer for the contract instructors union because they are holding a ratification vote this week.

So I may stay up late and work on statistics homework and then go into the university in the morning and end my day staffing the vote table as a volunteer. I would read at the table and then come home and sleep at 4 PM Tuesday.

I tried some full model logistics regressions and some pared down versions. I also tried the covariance greater than 0.09999 and that didn't look good. So the best logit model I found was for just the first three variables. I spent an hour on this tonight. So I have spent about 14 hours on this final project so far. I need to spend another 76 hours still. I am just printing my R session form this work.

I did not stick to my planned hours on the data mining final project. I have only put in one hour today and I planned to put in 11.

I did a logistic regression of all 24 variables. Using a book on how to interpret logistic regression in R I have now to pare down my model. My next step is too use the covariance cut off of 0.1 and try that model.

I have not worked on data mining yet tonight. I did do some web work. I also talked about technology and cell phones with my brother.

After some tweaking of my code I was able to run a glm command and get a printout. I will take a little break now and then review the logistic regression interpretation and see what I have got. Well at this point I may have at least one classification model so it was worth my while to get down to working on this. I have worked for 3 hours now out of 48 so 45 left to go. I have one more hour to do before doing other unrelated work.

I am running my first logistic regression and must wait for the computer to finish printing the plots.

I just spent an hour thinking, reading lecture notes on logistic regression and am about to try to do a logistic regression for the first three variables. My work computer is a bit slowed because I am still printing the covariance plot. I will end up with four copies of this plot. I spent the last ten minutes making an open office document of my code and my intent with this is to have a good copy of my code in a word processor. Of course I also need a copy documenting everything I tried and my mistakes.

I actually can read the covariance scores on the plot. I just looked at it and can identify the high scores for relation with the class variable. At this point I may pick a cut off value of say .0999 and take all the variables relating better than this and try a next step with this. These would be at´s 1,2,3,4,5,6,9,11,17,21. This is a rough covariance tree to decide which variables look promising for use in the model. Using a covariance score cut off of .199 I would use at´s 1,2,3 only. This makes sense of the data which also showed structure when looking at the first at´s in ggobi. So I think this is progress.

I did one hour of my data mining project. I started xess and then used my code from yesterday and copied some code from the first lecture to produce a plot of relationships between the 25 variables with a matrix style plot. The lower triangle shows the xy relationships. The diagonal shows the histograms of each variable. The upper triangle shows the covariance score. Although I could do this and am now getting the plot printed four times, the plot is showing too many variables to see the plots in other words the plots are too small. We were warned about this.

I took a break and then wrote this journal entry and now have three hours before I do a different job and 47 hours left until the project is completed in terms of time put in.

I am not working hard on my data mining assignment. I should put in about 88 hours on this assignment. I have put in about 8 hours now. I guess the thing to do is plan out the other 80 hours. I can´t work on it on Sunday or Thursday or Friday or next Saturday, because of work and a symposium the end of next week. I can put in 12 hours today and sleep at 2 PM. This would give me maybe two hours to work on the newspaper route. Then Monday I could put in another 12 then Tuesday another 12 or so. Then Wednesday I could put in a final 12. So I could maybe put in about half of what is required. That´s a plan then I will start tonight by reviewing all the notes on supervised learning by 4 am. That gives me about an hour and a half per lecture. I´ll get started now.

This is a view of my workplace. The School of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University. 

I got my grade yesterday for my honours paper and it was good and what I hoped for given my weak conclusion and weak development of my hypothesis.

I am a week and a half through the readings for my summer public law course. The course starts May 18th.

I applied to be a teaching assistant again next term. I will include a picture of our school of mathematics and statistics here.

I am reading more about industrial safety in schools. I spent an evening having a volunteer appreciation dinner with city officials and the Chief of Police. This is for my victims support volunteering. I won some chocolates in the raffle we had.

My teaching assistant work is now complete for the winter 2005. I have applied again to work in the summer.

I have a data mining project still to complete. Then this summer I am studying public law. I have the public law textbooks purchased and have been reading them in preparation for this summer.

I am just completing the last of my marking duties for my statistics TA work today. I will return the graded assignments tomorrow to the professor Ann Woodside. I believe the students write their exam on Tuesday.

I am reading Hamilton, Sheryl N. Intimate Couplings: A Feminist Interrogation of the Cyborg (M.A. Thesis, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communications, 1995) [unpublished].

I am busy marking and reading today.

I still have some grading to do from the winter term. I hope to complete one of these grading tasks today.

I have been read about industrial safety this morning, yesterday and Monday. I have also been reading about feminist science. This morning I also read about GLM's.

My honours fourth year paper is completed and I handed it in to my supervisor yesterday. I have read a little but mostly relaxed for the last 24 hours.

The Bruce Sterling footnotes are now done but I added another source to get the sentence of Morris because Sterling doesn't really cover Morris. The other source is

Cavazos, Edward A. & Morin, Gavino. Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-Line World (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1994).

This was the very first book I owned on computers and the law a good old stand by source that has proved its usefulness again.

I have three cases left to brief, a few footnotes to make to Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown. Then I just need to make correct footnotes and bibliographic entries for Statutes and I am done. Then I can read it through tomorrow and print it to hand in a 2 PM. I might stay up another 4 hours tonight. The Internet is working my printer is working. Things are alright for getting this law paper done.

I have 28 pages pretty much done except for a few footnotes. I have another 15 or so pages to complete. This only amounts to a few pages of new writing. Then I need a final footnotes check and I am done. The end is near.

I am up over night putting the final touches on my laws honours paper. It is looking pretty good now and is due tomorrow.

I then only need to work and study on statistics until May. Of course, the break in my own classes will allow me to read more widely and catch up on web mastering work.

I started to restructure my paper. I am just going to take a break now. My lecture notes for Monday´s data mining class are all printed out now with no printing errors.

I am going to have to give up on my own school work today at least my data mining course. I will continue to print the notes for tomorrow´s lecture but right now for the next two hours I am going to brief cases.

I finally got the separate histograms printed for the spam emails and the non-spam. I was able to see from these printed side by side that classification trees will probably work well here. I am having trouble with the gini tree program but am going to ask Ted Normington about this error with the min function in my code. I am also printing out tomorrow´s lecture notes and hope to get these notes printed tonight before I sleep.

Here are my present school work assignments:

1. Mark the STAT2507C4 assignment #5. Due Wednesday April 6th.
2. Mark the STAT3507 assignment #3. Start this again on Tuesday April 5th. Due some time later in the week.
3. Mark the STAT3507 assignment #4. I can´t start this until next week. Due April 16th or so.
4. Complete assignment # 3 for my STAT4601 course in data mining. This assignment involves making a spam filter using supervised learning. Due Monday April 4th.
5. Complete my honours paper for LAWS4908. I need to brief cases in my own words and rewrite my whole paper. Due Monday April 11th.
6. Complete my STAT4601 final project. This project is also supervised learning based on real German credit data. The categorization should determine good and bad credit risks. Due the end of April.

The pope has died. I grieve with the rest of the world a champion of peace and tolerance. I am sorry that he has died. I am not that religious but agreed with many of the popes statements on peace and understanding.

I have a data mining assignment to do as I upgrade my statistics education. The assignment is to filter spam. I have been given some 4601 observations or emails. I have 57 variables based on word frequency, character frequency and capitals frequency and length. Then the 58th variable is 1 or 0 depending on whether the email is spam or not. So this is supervised learning. I was able to open this data set in both R and SAS. In SAS I did a proc means and also a proc chart. I have 58 histograms coming out of SAS. I am printing these histograms 4 per page on both sides of the page. I am also printing the results of the proc means.

I am still reading Tomasina Borkman on self help groups and experiential knowledge and have been reading the chapter on professionals over night. I have also started to read abook on African telecommunication development. I also read more about educational reform in the USA in the 1990´s from a book on Urban eco-systems and teaching urban eco-systems. Last night I read a little bit more about a feminist Supreme court Justice.

I had a little fun with photos on blogger. In fact, I am going to try to be a little more creative with my camera as I attempt to reduce the amount of stress I am under.

The book I read last summer for one of my law courses. 

My ready made sculpture. That's an IBM selectric keyboard glued to a cheapo wine rack. The wine rack is always empty. 

A book by Michael Geist a local Internet lawyer and social commentator. 

My eMac photo collection. 

Here I hold my cat for the camera. 

I have spent 6 hours marking a statistical stratification assignment. It is due back this week.

I have been reading about women in computing. I have also been reading about a high standard of computer literacy in another MIT book.

I have been working a little to get some spam data into a data frame for R. I seem to have it now by creating a dat file with comma delimiter using SAS export. I was then able to read.table the file in R and seem to have the required data frame now.

I have been reading about women in computer science programs. I have been doing household stuff and teaching statistics the past few days. I have not been working on my law paper or my data mining assignment much the past few days. I am waiting for my supervisor to comment on my rough final draft. I will be doing marking this weekend and working on homework more. I got the union's web site started and on-line live now.

I borrowed a small tract on establishing an anarchist anthropology by Graeber, David. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2004). I read two chapters today. I also borrowed a book on violence that is multidisciplinary, Anderson, Myrdene. ed. Cultural Shaping of Violence: Victimization, Escalation, Response (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, 2004). This second book was where I read about the Saami and the lack of violence in their culture but who would really call less violence a "lack". Just me I suppose.

I stopped working on my paper and am printing my schizophrenia blog for the first quarter. I intend to add the pages printed to my pen and paper journal. With my pen and paper journals I am archiving last fall's pages. These older pages from this journal are stored in binders. one for daily personal notes and one binder for finances.

I completed marking one question's first part for all 80 assignments. It took one day or only an hour and a half of one day.

I spent 12 hours on my paper today. I also spent three hours on the web site for my union local. I updated quite a few blogs today.

I worked for about 12 hours finally getting my hypothesis into my paper. I now have case excerpts, legislation excerpts for each case as well as more of a themed paper. I am printing out a copy now but am really only printing fresh copy as I go along. I need to now jump to the end of the paper and edit more of my ending.

I did not work on my data mining project today. Yesterday I used SAS to view 58 histograms. I could not get these to work in R. I want to also do this project in C++ and PERL but that is getting my expectations too high.

I marked about fifty papers for one part of one question and have about 30 papers to grade for this part still. I think right now I will grade another course and get that half done.

I am marking 80 statistics assignments today and will be done in about one week. I am also working frantically to get my honours paper completed. I am also working on the teaching assistant's union's web site this weekend.

I was working hard this morning on my third assignment in data mining. I got the data read after looking at it again today later in the evening. I was able to do summary statistics but not histograms. The number of variables is too large for a plot. I need to divide the data with a 10 fold cross validation. I must also do some data dimension reduction.

The problem is email spam. I could use a Principle Components reduction using subsets of the variables. There are variables based on word and character frequency that could be extracted and broken down. There is also a capitals series if variables that could be reduced by PC analysis. Then I might have only 9 dimensions or 9 variables, 3 sets of 3 PC components. It may even end up smaller.

This blog seems to be down at the moment.

Well it is still Thursday for me. I can kind of give up the need to sleep odd hours as I had a regular week up till now. Although I wasn't really early for work I wasn't late either. I just spent two days working and volunteering a lot which is why I didn't write anything here. I got all the assignments and mid-terms marked in one lab section I am assigned to.

I also gave two labs last night. I got out of the second lab and went to hear a Chief Technology Officer of a major company speak at our school. I came home and read interesting bits from a few books. Then I wrote some of my paper. I then created a list of books I had read in January and February last year. I spent about two hours surfing Amazon.com.

Since my last entry I have become a member of the Association of Internet Researchers. I got some new job offers and signed a contract to do some web content management for one of my union locals.

I have my data mining course later today in the evening. I am going to proof read and write some of more of my paper now and take a good long break from the computer. I'll also take some vitamins and make some late night coffee.

I read one chapter in the book Liberating Cyberspace this morning. Here is the bibliographic cite for this chapter. Davies, Simon & Hosein, Ian. Privacy I: Liberty on the Line in Liberty, Liberating Cyberspace: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and the Internet (London: Pluto, 1999) at 68-80. I read parts of Personal Privacy and here is the cite for what I read of this book. Cornelius, Vita, Ed. Personal Privacy (New York: Novinka, 2002) at v-21.I also completed chapter four in Keith Humphreys, Circles of Recovery. Here is the cite: Humphreys, Keith. Circles of Recovery: Self-Help Organizations for Addictions (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University, 2004) at 128-148.

I know a little bit more about using R now. I got some homework done in data mining using R. I also taught SAS coding this week just past. I also bought a second copy of the Little SAS book at a medical bookstore.

I printed more cases and now have a more reasonable and complete by my record case binder.

I copied and pasted legislation from the USA and Canada into my paper. I had seen my adviser this past week and this was recommended.

Well it was first year calculus and transformations of X and Y axis as I tried to place city names on a map after a multidimensional scaling of city to city distances. Ah euclidean space now there's a thing.

I just today read John Nash's auto-biography on the Nobel prize web site. I don't see myself as a gifted in your face with my arrogant work type of paranoid schizophrenic. I am much more modest and just continue to produce my best. I am too beaten down by my science education from the 1970's that only featured male scientists and it is really my science education and socialization in the late 1990's and early 2000's that has brought a more gender balanced and racially balanced approach to the social world of science doing.

Here are some of the 21 books in authors name alphabetical order I am borrowing right now from the Carleton university library www.library.carleton.ca.

Some of 21 books

Bellahsène, Zohra, et al. Database and XML Technologies. Proceedings of the Second International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2004, Toronto, Ontario 2004 (Berlin: Springer, 2004).

I picked through this slowly and as of 05/04/19 am still borrowing it.

Borkmam, Thomasina Jo. Understanding Self-Help/Mutual Aid: Experiential Learning in the Commons (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers, 1999)

I read about four chapters of this book which seeks to establish consumers of medical services has having valid but different knowledge from doctors and other professionals.

Bygrave, Lee A. Data Protection Law: Approaching Its Rationale, Logic and Limits (The Hague: Kluwer, 2002).

This is a very complete book and interesting and perhaps a small part will be useful in my paper.

Cleaver, Barry, et al. Handbook Exploring the Legal Context for Information Policy in Canada (London, Ont.: Faxon Canada, 1992).

This book was a fairly easy read and an interesting topic. It was written by a team of legal professionals for the Faxon company. I read the whole book but it did not help me with my paper.

Cornelius, Vita, Ed. Personal Privacy (New York: Novinka, 2002).

I haven't looked at this book yet.

Humphreys, Keith. Circles of Recovery: Self-Help Organizations for Addictions (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University, 2004).

I am just finishing reading the chapter on effectiveness of self help in promoting less substance abuse. The author admits this is not a complete picture of self help groups but still finds it a valuable public health question to be answered.

Kahin, Brian & Nesson, Charles, Eds. Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1997).

This is interesting in a broader sense than just for my paper and has older and more general issued addressed as well as containing the David R. Johnson and David G. Post piece The Rise of Law on the Global Network.

Liberty. Liberating Cyberspace: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and the Internet (London: Pluto, 1999).

This book is a big send up but may not be practical in the speed of Internet changes occurring. It is certainly part of early legal scholarship on the ecommerce and Internet involving the law and government.

Oppenheim, Charles. The Legal and Regulatory Environment for Electronic Information 3rd ed. (Tetbury,Gloucestershire, UK: Infonortics, 1999).

This work is mostly about intellectual property issues in Europe and the UK and thus is not much help for my paper.

Parker, Donn. B. Crime by Computer (New York: Charles Scribners, 1976).

This is a book by one of the earliest computer crime scholars and his worked prompted a congressional commmittee and bill to deal with computer crime.

Wall, David S. Ed. Crime and the Internet (New York, Routledge, 2001).

This is a key motivating collection of papers driving me to write my paper.

Williams, Brian. Working with Victims of Crime: Policies, Politics and Practice (London, Jessica Kingsley, 1999).

This book is good and I have been reading it for about four months.

I am marking sample size and point and interval estimators problems for STAT3507. I should be done this today or tomorrow.

I decided not to drop out of the datamining course. In fact I was late to class but was the first person to hand in the assignment. The professors had granted a week's extension in fact. I was so busy printing the lecture notes and working with one last piece of data that was only posted on Monday. I attended the lecture and chatted with an old class mate who works at statistics Canada and is now still in graduate school. Graduate school in statistics is no longer as intimidating as it once seemed.

I am ready to give up on this data mining course almost. I have learned a lot so far. My future in statistics may not include what was planned. I am managing to get the money together to take a SAS base programmer certification test. I have been grading some statistics assignments aok. The data mining assignment #1 is due today at 17:30. I can't seem to get to the modeling stage. I also have financial worries at the moment. Also my work is pressuring me and I need more time for other studies.

My wife's book is in the mail and mine has a cover art file.

Maybe I hadn't said this before but my wife is a poet and I am a cyberpunk writer. My wife's first poetry book is in its second edition and is being sent from the printers as 50 copies. Two of my own short stories are waiting to be published in an anthology and I am also editor for. I have some money to publish this collection but was waiting for cover art which I have received today. I now only have to cash in my savings bonds and order the book through iuniverse.

I read a little of the Linux journal. I ran my Fedora machine tonight just to chat with a friend using Gaim. Now I am going to read about LaTeX and TeX and write a mini paper on privacy.

Saturday morning I began my data mining homework by printing some histograms and pairs plots. I also read about Tibetan Guerrillas fighting the Chinese in the 1950'.

I am reading chapters 5, 9 and 10 of Dalgaard, Peter. Introductory
Statistics with R (New York: Springer, 2002) to try some modeling after MDS.
This way I can now use "lm" to model my regression line and plot it with
"pairs" or "plot" and "abline". I will be reading some more of this this
morning.

I really found some good material for my paper by doing another library search on Thursday night after I did my labs. Finding Sieber's more recent writing is inspiring.

I read a more recent paper by Sieber, Ulrich. The Emergence of Information Law: Object and Characteristics of a New Legal Area in Lederman, Eli & Shapira, Ron, eds. Law, Information and Information Technology (The Hague: Kluwer, 2001) at 1-29. I can use a quote from here to lead into my privacy discussion for my computer crime paper. I need to read the second chapter, Lederman, Eli. Protected Frameworks of Information in Criminal Law in Lederman, Eli & Shapira, Ron, eds. Law, Information and Information Technology (The Hague: Kluwer, 2001) at 31-73.

I am deep into writing a 60 page paper right now. I have about 22 pages written and need another 40 pages still. I will have to look at issues of privacy and industry responses to computer crime. At the same time I am tracing the emergence of computers in the law.

I did some more marking overnight and am now just getting ready for a day at school. I have two public meetings today and a lab to give in the morning. Yesterday was Nirvana day on the Buddhist calendar and I felt good about it.

I am getting along with my honours paper. I have a good skeleton now and am starting to perfect the footnotes. I am also filling in sections using pen and ink and need to transfer those to the word processor.

My old math student called me and he is now studying final high school year maths by correspondence. I am busy doing my data mining assignment but maybe I am done now. I have done a principle components analysis of some data and I have done a multi dimensional scaling of some other data. The professors are being late with the assignment.

I am busy marking assignments tonight and will be busy marking for the next 7 days. I will not be doing any web mastering or security work until this round of marking is done. I have some more marking coming around on Wednesday morning but it won't be due for a full week.

I am being trained in critical response to be a psycho-social first aider. This weekend is our three day training. On the first day we covered structure of government emergency response. We also covered Canadian history of disaster. We looked at factors in disaster for the victims.

I just completed reading the first chapter of Borkman, Thomasina Jo, Understanding Self-Help/Mutual Aid: Experiential Learning in the Commons (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers, 1999). It covered why we should study self help as part of the third sector of the economy or voluntary/non-profit sector. This the sector I find myself involved within.

At the end of my second 30 hours day in a row I had an appointment to see a writing tutor. E listened to my topic and suggested having an hypothosis in the mini paper. That is to add in the over all papers hypothesis. I was able to put this hypothesis and then add in the analysis in from the first version of my mini paper and did that this morning and now basically have the paper completed. I am just proof reading my conclusion and then printing two copies for when my supervisor and I meet at 11 am this morning. In the next hour I am relaxing before going to school to prepare a lab for the students today. Then I will give the lab and then see the boss of this statistics course and finalize the hours. Then I will have the mini paper's meeting. After all this must do work I will attend a union info session and eat lunch there and we are having Chinese food in honour of Chinese new year today. I might then go and see a professor who might be able to supervise graduate school work on criminal law and the mentally ill. She had offered to chat during her office hours and she has office hours on Wednesday afternoons. I just need to check those hours now. I am going to make another pot of coffee and and print those papers

I am up again for 24 hours plus. I got some reading done on self help groups and emergency planning. I attended my data mining lecture. I got some but not all of the bibliography done for my mini paper. Today is a day off which is why I can adjust my sleep. I am just going to post this and then take some more vitamins and clean up a bit. I made guacamole this morning for the first time in my life. I am so happy with the fresh fruit and veggies we got wholesale this month. I also found out yesterday my Palm cell phone will work with our local wireless carrier.

I did a journal search and found the journal Information & Communications Technology Law to download articles from. I found articles on computer crime, disAbilities and computers, and data mining and law. I printed these articles early this morning and have started to read them this evening.

I had some problems deciding on the data mining course yesterday and attended a law and literature course. We watched the film Maria Full of Grace about cocaine importation. This sparked a lively debate about drug laws. I told the class they should study Dawn Moore's drug law course.

I picked up the first STAT2507 assignment and will work on it a little today at school to prepare for the tutorial on Wednesday. I should be ok for giving this lab Wednesday morning.

I talked with Professor Normington about the data mining course and feel ok sticking with it for the term. It is very interesting but method intensive. I printed out yesterday's lectures and printed out the R code for the two lecture examples. I also ran the first part of the lecture's association code. I did not attend the lecture though. I also looked at the abstract of a paper on protecting association rules that are privileged. This would occur in industry where data might be shared but one rule that might be important might be hidden or protected so that some association might be unknowable in the data set. I think I understand this. The paper is Oliveira, Stanley R. M., Zaiane Osmar R. & Saygin Yucel. Secure Association Rule Sharing in Dai, Honghua, Srikant, Ramakrishnan, & Zhang Chengqi, Eds. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 8th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2004 Sydney, Australia, May 2004 Proceedings (Berlin, Springer, 2004).

I signed up for an email list that I found on the Internet while researching graduate school in Kingston at Queens. I have been getting the emails about conferences and calls for papers and responded to a call for papers tonight for the journal Information, Communication & Society, Spring 2006. I also asked J if she would proof read my paper if I wrote something and she said she would. I can't write about the digital divide but could perhaps I could survey members of the self help community in eastern Ontario. This might allow me to find out what ICT's mean to them and also if ICT's change their ideas of identity or their concepts of identity as disAbled persons. I could also inquire about their ideas of interdependence.

I would need to design a survey which I could do while doing my teaching assistant work in the sampling methodology course this winter. I could do an initial survey this February and then get it all analysed by the end of March and get a rough paper written with abstract by June. Then I could do another survey in July and have the final results by September and the paper done by October. Say now that's a time line plan.

I am just printing out tomorrow lecture notes for my data mining course and got some tips on errors I was getting with R and Rgobi and gtk. I now need to try the code for lecture #1 again and try the lecture #2 code before heading off to sleep and then waking up for class later this afternoon. Then I am staying up from mid afternoon until 6 pm Tuesday so I can sleep early Tuesday night and wake up up early Wednesday for my first tutorial lab I am giving Wednesday morning. I will prepare for this lab either later tonight or early Tuesday morning.

I am also working on my law paper off and on tonight and emailed the professor late Sunday night.

I got another page written for my mini paper and got through the Riggs case now. I will just take my laptop to my office in the other room and print a rough copy for my own proof reading.

I got this email today about a journal looking for papers in 2006. That would be the year I graduate so it might be nice to have something published that year. I might try to write something for this and have contacted the editor. Here is the email. Note I am fairly sure it is not a breach of copyright to republish it here.

'Disability, Identity, and Interdependence: ICTs and New Social Forms'

A call for papers for a special Spring 2006 issue of
Information, Communication & Society edited by

Dr Gerard Goggin, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Christopher Newell, University of Tasmania, Australia

Our ideas of identity, the body, dependence and independence,
welfare, and ability are undergoing rapid transformation; new social
forms are emerging in which information and communications
technologies (ICTs) take a central but yet little examined role.

With the growing importance of new movements - such as the disability
movement, the online welfare movement, or those concerned with
independent living - ICTs have become an important part of
envisioning and realizing change to daily life for individuals, as
well as the architecture and systems of community and society. At the
present time also there are nascent associated fields of academic
inquiry and policy interest, such as disability studies, theories of
identity, work on social exclusion, and reconsideration of the
meanings of independence.

Disability, for example, poses rich, complex questions and
perspectives for thinking about identity, ICTs, and society. With
greater awareness of disability and the protection given to the
rights of people with disability through national legislation and
international instruments, increasing attention is being given to
researching and understanding the social implications of technology
and disability. As governments and regulators enact new requirements
for accessible technology, corporations and the 'third' sector are
also grappling with how to incorporate disability and accessibility
in their visions of ICTs.

At stake in these developments are important questions about identity
and ICTs. Concepts of welfare have been much debated, especially
under pressure from global economic and political trends. ICTs now
play an indispensable role in social and political organisation
online around welfare issues, in state and private administration of
welfare, in processes of identity-formation concerning welfare. While
independent living is still to be achieved for many, there is now
growing recognition of the balance between dependence and
independence - and that all in society are engaged in understanding
their interdependence and connectedness, something in which ICTs are
offering innovative ways to understand such new social forms.

In this light, we welcome submissions on topics such as (but not
restricted to):

* how thinking about disability, identity, and interdependence opens
up new perspectives on understanding ICTs
* case studies of particular technologies, accessibility, & disability
* the implications of disability for ICT policy and design
* new conceptions of welfare, online welfare movements and ICTs
* independent living and ICTs
* what are the implications of ICTs for the lives of people with a
diverse range of disabilities and impairments, identities, and lives?

Deadline for abstracts is 1 July 2005.

Deadline for final submissions is Monday 12 December 2005.

Potential contributors are encouraged to discuss their ideas with the editors:

Dr Gerard Goggin, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies,
University of Queensland (g.goggin@uq.edu.au)

Dr Christopher Newell, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania
(christopher.newell@utas.edu.au).

I am slowly working on my paper this evening and tomorrow morning then I am off to my data mining course after getting some sleep. I will also check the data mining course web page in a little bit to see if there is anything new posted.

I passed the drug law course with a good mark. The professor has invited me to drop by her office sometime to discuss her supervising graduate studies in mental health and criminology.

Well we got the newspapers ready for another Saturday. I am just on break before delivering them door to door. I am having a coffee and smoking. Otherwise I am off work this weekend. I was also debugging some Xemacs problems. I got Xemacs working but not ESS. I was able to run GGobi again to visualize some flea beetle data in 7 dimensions.

I was able to complete the 33 hours of volunteering this morning about an hour and a half ago. I now have three days off of working or volunteering. I will try to play cyberpunk with my friends tonight.

I was busy a little with my Debian computer this morning in the wee hours of the morning. But before that I did some review of the first week's data mining lecture using the lecture code and copying and pasting it into an advanced statistical software R. I have two books on using R but did not read them in the past four days. I also helped out with the paper route this morning and will help out Saturday morning as usual. I read an article about computers in schools and education in terms of the globalisation process. I also read a small lecture by Judge Richard Posner and his colleague William Landes on the Political Economy of Intellectual property. I also read about emergencies and sleep disorders. I also read the end of a Canadian Law Commission report on policing.

I decided on studying only data mining and my honours paper after all. I got assigned to four labs in my teaching assistant work. I did not get the web master job with the union and no longer want it. Our unemployment rate in Canada while a debatable measure of true unemployment is at its lowest in a long time.

I have been setting up and using my new Palm Tungsten W. My wife has been using her DVD/VHS player. I played Dungeons and Dragons on Wednesday night and later today will manage a cyberpunk game. I am so tired being up on call and am about to sleep until 7 or 8 PM tonight. I am just going to pop my daily risperadol about 10 hours late. I should have taken them at 11 PM last night. I have had no vitamins now in 36 hours.

I think I have decided now that I will not study policing issues or statistical computing. Instead I will complete my honours paper and study data mining. The data mining first lecture was fun.

I got my assignment for being a statistics TA and will be the TA for the sampling methodology course. I did very well with this course in 2001 and it was the last course in my B.Math degree. I have also used the material in this course to make some money because it taught questionnaire design and I have designed a questionnaire for money for a health network.

I rewrote my mini paper from scratch. I got two pages written before being bogged down by popular cases.

I spent the past week studying policing and private security for a course coded LAWS4306B titled policing (and Social Surveillance) by professor George Rigakos Ph.D.. It is a criminology course. I have read a Law Commission research paper by Rigakos now, and a couple of his journal articles are printed and await my reading attention.

I got my two R books in the mail and one is perfect for the first lecture I attended this week in statistical computing. The other R book is perfect for general level of statistics like the level my B.Math was at. This course in statistical computing STAT4604 is a level above this book. This course seems like fun and is the cheapest choice for courses this term in terms of required textbooks. Tomorrow we have the second lecture in this course. Then the third is on Wednesday. I plan to attend the first three lectures even if I don't stick with course for the whole term.

Also tomorrow we are having a school memorial service for the disaster in Asia. I also plan to attend that before my statistics course in the afternoon. Then in the evening the first class of the data mining course happens and I plan to attend that too. I have not met my pre-term study objectives for this course and am not keen on this course today.

I am fairly keen to just take the final law half credit in criminal law issues. But I also watched an ITV or television lecture of a third year course in the criminal law and politics by Chris McNaughton who was also my professor this summer in terrorism law.

Yes another term has started This term I am practicing the shop around for the right course method.

I contacted two professor's today who I might study with this term. I really just let them both know that I was going to check thier course out on Wednesday and make a decision later about which course I will study. I might be studying R this term or I might be studying data mining or I might be studying the police. I contacted one professor by email and the other professor I phoned.

Our grades should be ready soon for our drug law course. I hope to go to campus today later but really don't have to go until tomorrow Wednesday.

I continue to do research for my ten page paper on the history and development of computer crime law in the USA and Canada. I really don't have much for the Canadian case law. This is the main authority for this research:

Sieber, Ulrich. Ed. Information Technology Crime: National Legislation,
Jus Informationis European Series on Information Law v 6 (Köln: Carl
Heymanns Verlag, 1994).

I completed reading the USA section of this book, yesterday. There were some cases mentioned concerning computer crime that I must now search out on Lexis. Also I have printed out some of the more famous cases and must read those at the appeals level anyways. I also have an old 1980's case and a more recent case to read.

I must also now start to write more before this week really gets going.

I will have some classes to maybe attend this Wednesday but I am not registered in these courses. Yes, there are many interesting law courses this term but I am staying with data mining I and my honours paper as my only courses in my own studies. I hope to work as a teaching assistant in two or three section of statistics courses this winter term.