I will be helping mark final exams for MATH1104 on Friday of this week.

I am studying for my LAWS4204 exam this morning. I scan read the first 90 pages of our casebook. I still want to scan read the various cases and dispute settlements by 6:30 this morning. It is now 4:30.

I am working today in law enforcement for 8 hours.

I got my grade today for my legal research course LAWS3907. It was not quite what I was expecting but still a great mark. I must have scored a lower mark on the final assigment and maybe a lower mark on participation. I had shown some leadership in participation by trying to organise the class but perhaps that was ineffective. I had to struggle to listen sometimes. I only missed one class for family medical reasons. I know I had worked a little less on the final assignment but it seems I really did not do an A+ job on that final assignment. I did share some of my faults with the lecturer perhaps she took advantage of this self criticism. In terms of politics she may have not approved of my left wing stance in the conclusions of my paper. But I am not sure of her politics or whether this would affect her marking. I can only speculate about this aspect. She had promised as well that my marks would not be affected by mentioning past criminal offenses. Perhaps she thought I was outside smoking pot with the other students I don't know. I know she is a lawyer so can not look the other way in terms of offenses. But I had committed no offenses during the course. Oh well I need to write this blog entry as my mark was lower than I had expected although it is still within my average for law courses. I was improving last summer in the introduction to private law course and now seem to be just holding steady. Oh well maybe I can try harder on the final exam in the ecommerce legal issues course. Still I must admit I did better in this course I am sure than many of the other students and the course had me really working hard at times. It was by far one of the more pressured law courses I have studied. It introduced me to the nasty aspect of the legal profession. I might try and research this aspect of the legal profession in graduate school that is the meaness of lawyers and their lack of a sense fair play in law school. This would just be a certain subset of the lawyers because other lawyers I have studied with even those with different politics than myself have been decent human beings and not shown this level of meanness or put as much pressure on we the students.

I am still studying Palm programming this morning and also reading for my LAWS4204 exam. Final grades for my LAWS3907 course should be ready later today. I should have scored A or A- so another great term at school has happened. In this course I learned to research current laws and use an on-line legal database.

I am studying for my exam this morning after

briefly studying
• Palm programming,
• Unjust Enrichment,
• Numerical Analysis,
• a little para-psychology and philosophy,
• a little about web searching technology based on communities of common interest,
• and reading the newspaper.

In the newspaper there was an article about bio-sensors or medical measuring devices built into a ring and using wireless communication to record patient vitals. I saved this article.

I also read city political news and scanned business headlines for the past month.

The paper about web searching technologies seemed to ignore that idea that communities of common interest are maybe unnatural and a way of being exclusive. But there were some equations made up that seemed rather arbitrary and some sort of pseudo math approach to web searching technology.

The para-psychology paper from The Journal of the Royal Institue of Philosophy was about why para-psychology or psychical research is an important philosophical topic. To state this thesis the author C. D. Broad described the limits that we generallly accept in the modern world about causation, timing of events, and mental events. He wrote this in 1949.

The numerical analysis reading I did was on about error and the occurance of error in input, problem solving and output.

The Unjust Enrichment book I am reading continued from the case it started with to a classification mapping of this area of law. Professor Ogilvie had stated that this law was not clear. Already Birks the author of the book I am reading has promised that this book will finally make this area of law clear.

In Palm programming I studied the standard Palm GUI buttons for selection by the user.

I actually did not study today as impossible as that sounds. Tomorrow at noon there is a study group for the LAWS4204 course.

I prepared my notes for the LAWS4204 exam and we are meeting for a study group this Wednesday at noon.

I am still reading about phenomenological interviewing. I am also still studying Palm programming. I am also reading an old course book from 1987 that was for GEOG3307 back then on geography and peace studies. I can read it much better these days than back then. I also re-did some homework with SAS from my old statistics course in ANOVA. I did not get a spot in the SAS workshop this summer at York University. I am set to TA this summer and also take LAWS4701 where we will look at anti-terrorism law and security over reaction. I will also study homelessness in GEOG4000 later in the summer July-August.

I am still reading about summer courses at Algonquin college and also the University. I am settling down to choosing LAWS4701 this spring and GEOG4000 this summer. I might also take GEOG3603 this summer term but it would conflict for six weeks with my role playing game night. I might take a term off my TA work to do this study plan. I also thought of taking computer security courses or health and safety courses at the college.

I finished chapter 2 in Living Outside Mental Illness by Larry Davidson. This chapter was about how to ask questions when doing a qualitative interview. I learned more about how to listen from this chapter.

I finished chapter 4 and thus part I, in Terrorism, Risk and the City by Jon Coaffee. This chapter leads up the the concept of the "risk society" and the balance between risk and insurance. Red lining an insurance industry concept was discussed as well work by Ulrich Beck (Risk Society in translation, 1992), and also Anthony Giddens' (The Consequences of Modernity, 1990) and his (Modernity and Self Identity, 1991).

I attended a colloquium today. It was given by J a seasoned professor who enlivens the department. I spoke up to defend a point he made about computer instruction. At the same time I have been helping to promote computer instruction this past term.

I met with J and we talked about her conference in cultural studies. It might be fun to attend I said. It is May 1st.

I am starting to review the course material for my exam on the 26th.

I borrowed a couple of more books from the library focusing on participatory democracy and also unfair enrichment. I took back a book on electronic warfare and also a book on intelligence agencies. I know when I start studyng war I am getting into trouble with paranoia.

I need to study more law and focus on the studies I should be doing that match the course I am taking or planning to take or have taken. Epistomology is the thing to help me focus.

I did some union volunteering yesterday.

I read more about terrorism and risk society in a book by Jon Coaffee. This author does include criticism and also seems to know his urban geography quite well. He is also exploring space and control of space. Defensive architecture of cities is his subject. London and Belfast are two main places he looks at in this book about contempary urban landscapes.

I finished reading Rob Kitchin's Cyberspace and returned it to the university library last night.

I completed printing out this blog in study copy for my binder to carry around at school and other places.

I have been reading about Palm programming, XML and C++ programming. I have installed various tools for programming on my WinXP laptop and my Fedora Linux machine. I have been following the examples in the books with these tools on the computers. I have also wirtten some more of my protest dtd and posted it live on the web now. I have also been doing paid web master work.

I slept at 3:30 in the afternoon and am now up at 1:30 and have been studying. I read a little of Terminal Identity a sci-fi and cultural theory book. I then read yesterday's newspaper the Citizen. I will not help the Citizen carrier this morning. I also read another chapter of Count Zero by William Gibson. I am just now printing out copies of my studies blog for my binder. This way I will have all bibliographic details of my recent research available with me because I carry this binder around everywhere.

I am installing Win98 on one computer.

Today is the offical last day of term but classes ended 6 days ago on the Friday.

I took part in a hiring committee for my TA union this week. I have to interview candidates for a union job next week on Tuesday. The union covers my expenses for this union committee work once per term. It was tough to choose a short list. This gives me more experience for working as an executive.

I finished the chapter in Rob Kitichin's book on Cyberspace about politics and polity. This chapter covered legal matters. This is where significant things were judged by Kitchin with his political economy, post-modern, social constructivism approach. He seems to assess politics and the political arena quite well. The next chapter involves regional restructuring and is the real geography. One could read Kitchin instead of Lessig and not miss much law or lega implications of cyberspace.

Rob Kitchin is also interested in disabilities and geography. I have known his name and work on the geography of cyberspace since the mid or late 1990's.

I read for six hours on Monday night.

On Tuesday I did some human resource work making a short list of candidates for a survey analyst position with the union.

My wifes book just passed the proof stage with a few small corrections. Her book should be for sale by the end of the month.

I got the union money situation moved along a bit and booked our room for this month.

I met with another disabled student and we had coffee. She is very proud of my school achievments and told me that. I also had coffee with a union office staff worker and we talked about our life partner's music abilities.

I borrowed books on security today and electronic warfare.

I am becoming a programmer again. I have been studying programming the Palm and also programming in C++.

I spent about two hours trying to install Debian Linux 2.1 on an old Thinkpad 360SC. It was extremely frustrating and I stayed up late doing it and then slept a lot and had a broken sleep last night.

Tonight I read about palm programming reviewing the first two chapters that I read last week, of a book on palm programming. I then installed a POSE and unpacked the SDK files onto my Fedora machine.

I have nicked named this machine LEAVES. The machine is an IBM 325 PC server with dual Pentium II 300Mhz processors. Maybe this acronym stands for Linux Educational Application v. Enterprise Solutions. It used to be part of a super computer I build and called Lamda after the Lambda moo which was legal example we studied in LAWS3501 last winter. This example of a community dispute in an on-line community came from Lawrence Lessig's book Code: and other laws of cyberspace. This same example is in Rob Kitcin's book Cyberspace.

I now want to install a POSE on my windows laptop because I just installed GCC and an IDE for GCC on this WinXP laptop.

But for now I must sleep and attend a University President's committee meeting tomorrow. Well actually later today but I am up late in the morning.

I planned to read more of Cyberspace this weekend but kind of got bogged down in the legal cyberpsace stuff because I mostly know this stuff already. It gets a bit thick reading it again.

I am studying programming both for the Palm and more general C++ programming this past week and tonight.

I have two union related meeting this week and nothing else. There is no work this week other than a work load estimate due at the health charity network. This estimate is for paid web mastering next year.

I emailed a few other law professors this morning. I might like to research disabilities and the law this summer.

Today I am studying a tutorial at IBM's developer works.

I am also downloading and installing TNT lite from www.microimages.com. TNTLite is a free GIS software. I am downloading it for both WinXP and also Mac OS X 10.3.3.

I am also reading chapter 5 in Cyberspace by Rob Kitchin who I know as a geographer interested in disabilities in the mid to late nineties. Chapter 5 is about politics and the consequences for the polity because of cyberspace. I find a lot to agree with in his book as well as stuff I disagree with. Thus I find it a well balanced book.

It helps to surf the math department web pages. I found out today I could get a copy of SAS for use on my home PC. I went to school for about 15 minutes to pick up a copy and installed it on my laptop. This will help me study for a SAS certification.

I am using my Mac today. Yesterday I read some of William Gibson's Count Zero on the bus with my Palm. I read chapter 1 in Al Steven's Teach Yourself C++, 7 ed., yesterday.

I got a photo copy of the article I was reading about GovML and took the book with the article back to the library.

So you give sugar for both insulin coma and insulin shock. I reviewed this in the First on the Scene book by the St. John's Ambulance organisation.

My paper due today is done. I am just printing out a final copy. This means the term is over in this course after tonight's class. I don't need to bring my laptop to school tonight.

I am working in a relaxed frame of mind on my term paper for LAWS3907. It is titled What is Happening with Electronic Personal Health Information?.

I did some good old volunteering today. I also attended a talk about PERL and understand its usefulness more now and am going to try it right now on my Linux computer. I chose not to write the Linux certification tests. I did not have enough time to study for them and could not afford the exams even if I found time. I spent about 4 hours studying for them but had pressures to mark tests for work and my end of term essay to write.

Tomorrow new volunteer gig in the Linux community for one day.

I attended class in Internet law yesterday and the formal part of the course is over. I talked in front of the class about jurisdiction in a mock court case. One more class and that course is done. I finished reading the casebook for the course this week. I have to return Michael's Geist's Internet Law in Canada to the school library tomorrow

I am also borrowing books on computers this week.

My final assignment is due on Monday then April is almost a month off school. I have no classes in April.

I am studying for a Linux certification this week. I will have an opporunity to write an exam for 50$ this weekend. It is the LPI level 1 exam 101.

I completed my presentation for LAWS3907 assignment#5, yesterday. I tested the slides on the classroom computer on Sunday. I also printed out one copy of the presentation on the laser printer in the disabled student's library centre and then photocopied it twenty times. I still need to print a few copies more for the class tonight.

I found a supervisor for a fourth year geography course this summer. I will be working on a project or study into homelessness using SPSS. I also applied to attend a statistics workshop for two weeks at York University in June.

The author, Larry Davidson in his book uses two quotes for recovery. These are:

"Recovery refers to the lived or real life experience of persons as they accept and overcome the challenges of the disability" (Deegan, 1988, p. 15) and "Recovery is a process by which people with psychiatric disabilites rebuild and further develop important personal, social, environmental, and spiritual connections, and confront the devastating effects of discrimination through...empowerment" ( Anthony, quoted in Spaniol and Koehler, 1994, p. 1) Emphasis added.

Davidson basically reviews the literature briefly on schizophrenia in his first chapter. He dismisses the Kraepelinian model as lacking hope and not allowing recovery and this "not allowing" affecting methodology in observing recovery. He has been noting a number of times in his introduction and his first chapter that the outcome in schizophrenia is heterogenous that is there is not a stereotypical course to the illness. Recovery can and does happen quite often in fact his recovery figure ranges from 27% t0 67% and is higher in less developed countries. Via la madness.

I am relaxing reading this book after completing the reading of a casebook for a law course. This means the required reading for this course is done. The course ends in two weeks with the final exam still a month away.

I was also working on a presentation for my other law course due on Monday. I have been working around perfection on this course and frustrating details of printing handouts for my brother and sister classmates. My brother gave me an old photo printer. I will now sleep on this home work and review it tomorrow. I will also have to go to school tomorrow to test the school computers at displaying my presentation slides. I did not use power point but instead Open Office to do this school work.

I have posted my xml dtd to the web at this address www.crystalcomputing.net/protest_dtd.html.

I can't yet find a supervisor for an independent study course in law. It is course coded LAWS4902. I might also like to find a supervisor for an independent Geography field work course also a fourth year course. The school will buy me a copy of ArcView 8 to do the work in geography. ArcView is a GIS software.

I have written the beginnning of an XML dtd for protests.

I am reading some applied mathematics.

I am also reading Larry Davidson's Living Outside Mental Illness (New York: New York University Press, 2003).

I took back Cybersexualities.

I took back the George Cho book on GIS and the Law.

I took by Castel's the Rise of the Network Society.

I gave two tests the fourth and final tests of the term in my TA work. I now need to mark these tests.

I am now the union's recording secretary.

There is a big no occupation of Iraq protest today world wide. I will be a medic for this.

A friend is moving today.

I read a few pages from a number of books tonight.

I got my assignement #4 done and just need to proof read my final copy. I just did the footnotes.

I read His Honour La Forest on judical lawmaking.

I also reviewed some XML basics.

I need to read a few articles about bias and legal education for Monday's class. I will need to sleep as soon as I get home Sunday morning.

I am just printing out one of the assigned articles to read now.

We got the contract for my wife's book signed. Now we need to pay and it is off to the printers.

I am working tonight. It should be a quiet night.

I got a version of assignment #4 done for LAWS3907. I still need to add some footnotes to a journal article in my three page answer. I explore bias and feminism in this answer.

I got to work on assignment #4.

I worked on two tutorial's today. I got an official form filled to use a library lab.

I got my mid-term paper back and scored B. I included too many tangential scholars to my topic to score higher. I have been reading more Internet Law.

I am not doing much studying today. Instead I slept. I did though email everyone in my LAWS3907 course and suggested something for our March 15th class. I showed some leadership using the Internet.

I hope to get to learning C++ from a couple of books. My brother-in-law says he is into PERL these days.

I finished a medical sociology book called What's Wrong with Addiction? by Helen Keane, an Australian scholar. It took me about 4 months to finish it. She basically questions and suggests resistance to the widening definition or label of addiction. She points to the lack of asserting recovery literature as a moral and value filled enterprise that basically supports the liberal democratic society. Addiction and recovery discourse ignores difference.

I am up at 11 am today and am studying and might go to the school library today as well as help out with mailing a union survey.

I am working on a bibliographic exercise of creating ten entries in a bibliography for my topic of electronic health information for my LAWS3907 course.

I read Internet Law for four hours.

I read chapter 1 and am half way through chapter 2, of Michael Geist's Internet Law in Canada 2d (North York: Captus, 2001).

I was reading Chela Sandoval New Sciences: Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed in Wolmark, Jenny. Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminst Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1999) at 241. This paper is about oppressed people being ready for cyber resistance through years of experience battling oppression over recent historical conditions. I dig it. We will survive even in the electronic universe.

I finished reading a few more domain name disputes.

A few evenings ago I read an article by Bengsch, Andreas & Kopp, Heiko & Petry, Andre & Tavangarian, Djamshid. Evaluation of a Communication Environment for High-Speed Mobile Wireless LAN Clients in Bohme, Thomas & Heyer, Gerhard & Unger, Herwig eds. Innovative Internet Community Systems: Third International Workshop, IICS 2003 Leipzig, Germany, June 2003 Revised Papers (Berlin, Springer, 2003). This article describes an experiment to test data throughput and quality of transmission for a wireless LAN over various speeds of travel. They do this by placing a laptop computer in a car on a test track and driving at varying speeds and measuring the speed of the LAN transmissions between the laptop and one and two antennas which are technically called hotspots. They also measure and evaluate the effects of passing the signal off as the car passes from one antenna to the next. Each antenna has either a server or a wireless bridge to the other antenna that has the server. This seems like a very basic experimental design no different than a first year physics lab. You can see that this test of 802.11b wireless networking standard is at the cutting edge of capitalist research for telecommincations business. It figures in our lose of roots and thus alienation and also in the production of the global village by producing wireless LAN facts.

I am re-posting this entry for my dad to find with ease:

I am presently in a program requiring honours in Law(1 credit remaining) and Geography (3.5 credits remaining) and a minor in philosophy (3 credits remaining in ethics of technology).

I am considering a philosophy course in the paranormal this summer. Other courses offered this summer that interest me include:

First year sociology has a good schedule. Second year public law might do for my law program. European geography could work in a progam. There are really no math or statistics course for me this summer although I might be a TA in some of these courses this summer. There are some cool business courses but they would only be options in my program. There is a law course in mediation and some law/sociology/social work courses in the criminal justice summer school. There are also a fair amount of good criminology courses in the sociology department offered this summer as well there are a few law and psychology from the criminology program offered this summer. But I am not in the criminology program. But I should have all the required law courses completed for the criminology program at the end of this term. I would still need more sociology and psychology courses if I wanted to complete my BA in this program.

I am reading my LAWS4204 casebook to get a week ahead again. I am reading domain name dispute cases. I will post more about what I am reading later tonight or early tomorrow morning.

I have a lab class tomorrow in using Quicklaw an on-line legal database service for my LAWS3907 course.

I took yesterday off work and am taking today off and tomorrow except for my class.

I am reading some literary theory.

I am considering a philosophy course in the paranormal this summer. Other courses offered this summer that interest me include:

First year sociology has a good schedule. Second year public law might do for my law program. European geography could work in a progam. There are really no math or statistics course for me this summer although I might be a TA in some of these courses this summer. There are some cool business courses but they would only be options in my program. There is a law course in mediation and some law/sociology/social work courses in the criminal justice summer school. There are also a fair amount of good criminology courses in the sociology department offered this summer as well there are a few law and psychology from the criminology program offered this summer.

I decided I did not have enough time to commit to the Model NATO event so am not participating. Union volunteering is picking up in two of my unions.

I handed in my paper and started to read Terminal Identity a book about science fiction. I am also researching NATO in particular Norway, a member state. I am also reading about computerised legal decision making for government service delivery. I am also reading about Internet communities. I have another computer science book full of papers about XML borrowed from the library. I also have one of Robert Kitchin's books on cyberspace borrowed. I also have a book on gepgraphy and social justice borrowed.

I worked for 30 hours on a mid-term paper for my ecommerce legal issues course. I completed it tonight. It is due in class tomorrow. I will post it to my computer ethics web site (www.webpagex.org) after it is marked and corrected. I got help with proofreading from a learning specialist in the students with disabilities centre on campus. Yahoo it is done, and I thought I wouldn't be able to do it.

I tired to study at work but it didn't work too well. I read the PIPED Act and saw more sections that concern electronic signatures.

I worked from 12 mid-night to 12 noon on my paper only breaking for meals and helping the newspaper worker. I also broke to read the paper. The last article I read in the paper concerned Louise Arbour's nomination to be Human Rights Commissionaire for the UN.

I won't be able to study much in the way of extra topics for awhile at least until Thursday. Besides needing to get my LAWS4204 paper done by Wednesday I need to mark about 75 mathematics tests by Thursday or Friday.

I now have 8 pages written in my ecommerce paper. I have included the work of three other scholars.

I have 6 solid pages written about studying the Internet and then this essay leads into covering contracts, then digital signatures. I haven't written it yet but the next place this essay will stop is the new Privacy Act 2000. Of course I am getting a chance to write about encryption too in the middle of the paper.

I started a blog at www.schizophrenia.com. and it will be for medical and self help writing.

I am reading the book edited by Maria A. Wimmer ed. Knowledge Managment in Electronic Government 4th IFIP Interntional Working Conference, KMGov 2003 Rhodes, Greece, May 2003 Proceedings (Berlin: Springer, 2003). So far I have read papers in this book by Ronald Leenes Abort or Retry - A Role for Legal Knowledge Based Systems in Electronic Service Delivery? at 60-69 and Gregory Kavadias & Efthimios Tambouris GovML: A Markup Language for Describing Public Services and Life Events at 106-115.

I completed reading Lisa J. Servon, Bridging the Digital Divide, Technology, Community, and Public Policy (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2002).

I am also reading Leslie David Simon, NetPolicy.com: Public Agenda for a Digital World (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2000).

I am reading David Hakken, Cyborgs@cyberspace: An Ethnographer Looks at the Future (New York, Routledge, 1999).

I used some school discussion spaces on the net just now.

I didn't get much writing done today. But I did do some Quicklaw research for my paper. I got some of my work related report done. I should try to complete it tonight before sleeping.

I am busy on rewriting the workplan for the Accessibility Advisory Committee today. I am also writing a report for the Eastern Regional Network. I am also writing my mid-term paper for LAWS4204 today.

I gave the tests in MATH1005 and MATH1104. This is test#2 for both courses.

I am working hard on my essay for LAWS4204. I also searched out some journal articles for this paper.

I started assignment #4 in LAWS3907. I was able to find nine journal articles about electronic heath information. I need one more. I may print these articles off and read them in hard copy.

I am done assignment #3 of 5 assignments for LAWS3907. This means 48% of the course has been done. I am not going to withdraw from this course now. I am so far doing great with this course. So I am done assignment #3 at 15:20 and it is due at 19:00 tonight.

I am reading Leslie David Simon, NetPolicy.com: Public Agenda for a Digital World (Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000). I read the preface, chapter one a bit and am just completing reading chapter four tonight about convergence in ecommerce which covers financial services, retail and distribution, and manuafacturing and processing, in three sections in this chapter. There is another section in this chapter on policy considerations. I also read a later chapter on ecommerce last week. I am reading this book for research for my LAWS4204 mid-term paper. I have already read some books for this paper last year and have a few more to read this week.

I read two Supreme Court of Canada cases yesterday for my LAWS3907 assignment #3. This assignment is due tomorrow and I must complete it before going to sleep Monday morning.

I got most of assignment #3 done for LAWS3907. I am scoring A in this course so far. I am reading some Supreme court cases this weekend to complete the assignment.

I wrote about ten pages of my LAWS4204 mid-term paper. It is going well. Citation won't be pretty. I am getting help from the disabled students office and my professor. I am still reading law books for this course.

I got the tests marked and some students picked them up on Friday. We have tests again next week.

I am working in security again. I should do security work over the reading week.

The union is holding a branch election this month.

Another union is having a general meeting this Tuesday.

I am working and studying hard. I transfered to a geography and law degree with a minor in technological ethics. I should be studying propganda as a philosophy course this summer on the ITV TV channel.

I am still three weeks ahead for readings in LAWS4204. I read a Canadian jurisdiction case concerning the Internet where they asserted that a bulletin board is a passive web page that does not enter another jurisdiction. I read some more of Bridging the Digital Divide yesterday.

I worked a little on assignment #3. I am getting assignment #2 back tomorrow. I missed this LAWS3907 class on Monday night for personal family reasons.

I worked as a computer analyst yesterday and did some charts of computer ownership by some non-profits. I used Open Office for this work.

I marked most of the first test in MATH1005. I have one question left to go.

I need to spend more time marking MATH1104.

I continued to read Bridging the Digital Divide, Lisa Servon. I am reading the chapter on training disadvantaged workers. I also read more on US Internet policy and a section in the book NetPolicy.com on Canadian Internet policy.

I think creating a standard directory structure on my workstations is a clear organisational triumph. I did this on my latest workstation.

I have been reading ecommerce law books. Also more general Internet law books like Michael Giest's Internet Law in Canada.

I continue to study addictions and also now good practices for counselling abuse survivors. I shared some studies in mental illlness with fellow ex-patients.

I am also still studying Linux.

I spent about 15 minutes writing my paper last night then hours writing emails and chatting.

My lecture went well, but I could barely keep quiet always raising my hand to answer or comment. The professor will help me with my paper which is about four or five pages long now and looking doable as the lawyers apparently say. We learned about the apellet courts accepting social science arguments today and covered some sociology, psychology and political science views of ecommerce or more generally the Internet.

I got some MATH TA work done today. I also talked for about ten minutes on the train with a fellow MATH statistics graduate from my graduating class. She is almost finshed her M.Sc. now. We talked about ethics in statistics work and of course some more basic shop talk.

I attended a community meeting after class and worked on some of that work when I got home.

This morning I am re-reading readings on the sociology, psychology and political sceince of cyberspace for my LAWS4204 lecture today. I am taking it slow through reading the personal jurisdiction cases in the middle of our case book. I should be finished these cases by Friday. I am still about two weeks ahead on the readings.

I got my first assigment back. I started reading about the developmentally delayed in an old book about semi-independent living. I also am reading a police chief's association book on private security. I also borrowed some books on GIS and also environmental remediation. I have a cold but I'll make it to class tomorrow. I also need to prepare a test for MATH1104 by Friday.

I finished my second assignment for LAWS3907 and will hand it in tonight. I should get my first one back tonight graded. I am learning a lot of laws. I am working on an ecommerce essay too. I am reading a lot. I am off to school in about half an hour.

I spent the last two hours configuring my PDA, my eMac and my cell phone.

I have to do some preparation for my two MATH tutorials tomorrow. I am not worried about doing the MATH1104 tutorial but the MATH1005 tutorial has me working tonight.

I am a little behind with LAWS3907 but am making steady progress. I need to go to the library tomorrow to work on statutes and jurisprudence.

I am doing fine with my LAWS4204 course. My paper is coming along and my lecture notes are good. I need to do some more reading notes but I should be ok for next week with maybe two hours work before next week's class.

I need to do my reading notes for this weeks assigned readings in LAWS4204.

I read the first chapter of this book last night: Rozovsky, Lorne E., & Inions, Noela J.. Canadian Health Information, 3rd ed. (Markham, On:, Buttersworth Canada Ltd., 2002). I am reading the second chapter tonight.

These are the books I looked at in the first two weeks of school regards medical law:
Fagan, Thomas J. & Ax, Robert K., eds.. Correctional Mental Health Handbook (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 2003).
McKelvey, Michael, & Bohnen, Linda. Ontario Health Legislation: An Annotated Guide (Aurora, On: Canada Law Book Inc., 1998).
Robertson, Gerald B.. Mental Disability and the Law in Canada 2nd ed. (Scarborough, ON: Thomson Canada Ltd., 1994).
Rozovsky, Lorne E.. The Canadian Patient's Book of Rights: A Consumer's Guide to Canadian Health Law (Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1994).
Rozovsky, Lorne E., & Inions, Noela J.. Canadian Health Information, 3rd ed. (Markham, On:, Buttersworth Canada Ltd., 2002).
Ruxton, Graeme D. & Colegrave, Nick. Experimental Design for the Life Sciences (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Schneider, Richard D.. Ontario Mental Health Statutes (Scarborough, On: Carswell, 1996).
Sharpe, Gilbert. The Law and Medicine in Canada, 2nd ed. (Toronto, On:, Buttersworth, 1987).
Williams, Christopher R. & Arrigo, Bruce A.. Law, Psychology and Justice, Chaos Theory and the New (Dis)order (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001).

This is the title and summary for my proposed research mid-term paper for LAWS4204:

Title: The legal relationships of cyberspace entities involved in ecommerce exchange.

This paper examines entities involved in the ecommerce environment of exchange of goods and services over the Internet using a model for cyberstudies proposed by ethnographer David Hakken. Using this model as a descriptive framework the entities are examined for their legal relationships to each other at the scales of measure suggested by Hakken's model. Where possible cases and statutes establishing law in the ecommerce environment, are shown to apply to the entities and their relations between each other. Where law has not been established between the entities or over the scale of analysis provided by the model, a general discussion of possible legal outcomes is attempted.

I completed my first assignment in LAWS3907 last night and have a printed copy of it done. I will print a back up copy today.

I got taken out of Math1009 and got reassigned to MATH 1005 on Thursday night. I found out about it Friday morning and just made it to school to give the first tutorial for MATH1005 at 9:30 in the morning. I also gave the MATH1104 tutorial later in the early afternoon. I have worked 1.5 hours on each of these two math courses now.

I have been refining my essay topic for LAWS4204. I will attempt to use David Hakken's model for the analysis of legal relationships in ecommerce.

I got a job to do a questionaire for a group I am involved with in the community.

I attended a public consultation and focus group on the cities budget.

I am almost done the first assignment in LAWS3907. I just need to double check the citations against the McGill Guide book. Then I need to spend another couple of hours in the library today researching medical law. Speaking of medical law I replentished my first aid kits with assorted bandaids. I also need to start the second assignment in the library today but there is no rush. I will try to do the bulk of that assignment on-line on the weekend. I have only one appointment this weekend for the Social Planning Council public consultations on Saturday morning.

I am finished attending the second week of school, except that today I must give a tutorial in Linear Algebra for MATH1104. I have prepared for the assigned questions. Everything seems ok.

I am worried now about my mid-term paper for LAWS4204. I have choosen to do something original for my topic. I want to look at community development using the Internet and somehow relate this to ecommerce. I have been reading about the formation of various Internet governance bodies involved in domain names and the root zone file.

With my new USB floppy drive it will be possible to copy files to floppy at school and load them on a school machine and print them using the disabled student's resource centre in the library. Cool, I can now do last minute edits like after my proof readers read my final copies of essays.

I am reading the two math textbooks, I got this week for MATH1009 and MATH1104. I want to have the January readings for these course done this week.

I am reading a book on GIS and the Law by George Cho.

I read chapters 1,2 & 5 from Legal Research a Step- by Step Guide by Margaret Kerr. I also worked on my LAWS3907 homework earlier this morning. But I used the wrong law dictionary so will have to redo this on Monday afternoon before class.

I read the first two articles in chapter 9 of my LAWS4204 casebook today. This inspired me to phone my brother.

I got my Little SAS Book back from a fellow worker who was borrowing it.

I tried to use laylinalg with MAPLE 7 but failed to get it to work as a package.

I read a little moral philosophy a few days ago. I read about the Cynics.

I read a few of last weeks newspapers. That is the Ottawa Citizen, that I call a newspaper. It is one of my cities daylies.

I attended my LAWS4204 lecture but the professor had had a death in the family so the class did not happen. I did the planned work on the LAWS3907 assignment. I got half of the first parts: A,B, and C done with one law dictionary. I could not find the other half two expressions at all in three legal dictionaries and one private law dictionary. I did the required photocopying for this part of the assignment for the half I could answer. I also checked out a few books on medical law. These are:

Sneiderman, Barney & Irvine, John C. & Osborne. Philip H.. Canadian Medical Law: An Introduction for Physicians, Nurses and other Health Care Professionals 3rd ed. (Scarborough, ON:, Thomson Canada Ltd., 2003)

Rozovsky, Lorne E.. The Canadian Patient's Book of Rights: A Consumer's Guide to Canadian Health Law (Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1994)

Robertson, Gerald B.. Mental Disability and the Law in Canada 2nd ed. (Scarborough, Thomson Canada Ltd., 1994).

I did not look inside these books. I need to read these books a little. The one book I did borrow is:

R.Williams and Bruce A. Arrigo, Law, Psychology and Justice, Chaos Theory and the New (Dis)order (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001).

I have read the first few chapters of this book already this past fall, 2003.

I contacted both of my new bosses at school and am hoping to meet with them both tomorrow. I should also be able to pick up the contracts tomorrow. Tutorial work starts next week. I have the outline for one course and there are four tests in this course to work on marking and giving. So I know the possible dates of this work.

I started my LAWS3907 course yesterday. I attended the first class. About four of the guys from my LAWS4305 course are also taking LAWS3907 this term with me.

We got our first assignment due in 2 weeks on the Monday. I have done parts of it now and have started the word processing file for that assignment. The assignment involves proper citation for both footnotes/endnotes and bibliographies. Also we have some legal dictionary work to do in this assignment. I have not used a legal dictionary before so this is new work for me. The assignment also involves preliminary legal research, basically library work on a topic in legal studies. We need to brainstrom a topic (This I have done.), then pick one topic, find one source for this topic (This I have also done), then we need to spend a few hours in the library finding more sources then summarise these sources in terms of the scope they cover for our topic.

My topic is specifically the Judicary and capitalist health care but as it relates to the mental health field and mental disabilities. I will probably work with it a little more in general terms like Judges and capitalist health care. I will search out Acts or Statutes that cover health in Canada. I will also look into medical law. I have read some things on consent this past summer but I will broaden my scope in this paper due at the end of term.

I got home from work and went on-line. I found out I have been hired again as a teaching assistant in the math and stats department at Carleton.

I have been initially assigned to MATH 1009 section F with associate professor Wojciech Jaworski whose interest is analysis. The tutorial is #2 on Tuesday's from 16:00 to 17:00.

The other assignment is MATH1104 section E with assistant professor Benjamin Steinberg whose interests are semigroups, automata and groups. The tutorial is #2 on Friday's from 13:30 to 14:30.

I studied some system safety literature on new years day. Last night we played cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. This morning I read some of an article in the Essential Offender Assessment Handbook. It was about predicting violent behaviour in psych patients. I also read chapter 8 in my LAWS4204 casebook. I started a biblographic list in Open Office of the reading in this casebook. I might transfer this list as memo notes to the Palm. I might do that right now before work.

My deepest sorrows for the people of Bam, Iran. I had a dream of death the night of the earth quake. Too many people died there. I am really saddened by this disaster.