I finished a book on European Counter Terrorism. This extends from my spring course in terrorism laws. I am being so smart these days. I have some good work. I can study one on one with a professor this year. My old private law professor from last summer has agreed to supervise me in writing an honours fourth year paper this year. I got permission to study stochastic proccesses and queuing theory as well today.

I have twenty books out from the university library. I completed reading this book early yesterday morning: Goggin, Gerald & Newell, Christopher, Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in the New Media (Lanham, ML.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). I learned a lot from this book but the main message is that academics ignore disability studies which is what our law department is doing in my case.

I am again officially in fouth year law now. Again this is not an LLB but rather a BA in law. Next could be a an MA in law. I am picking a course in sentencing and a course in drugs, users and the state for the fall term.

Today's newspaper and it is a holiday today had a front page article about blawgs or blogs about law. They estimate there are only 12 blawgs in Canada but about 500 in the USA. I have used one US blawg, that is Lawrence lessig's blog about Internet law.

Here are the law courses I favour for the fall term I need 1 credit and the first course might be all year so it would be LAWS 4908 with one of the other ones for the fall:

LAWS 4908 [1.0 credit]

Honours Paper

Students in the BA (Honours) Law or BA Combined (Honours) Law Program may write an Honours paper during their final year under the supervision of a faculty member of the Department of Law. The Honours Paper is evaluated by both the supervisor and a second reader. Students intending to proceed to graduate studies are strongly encouraged to complete an Honours paper.

LAWS 4102 [0.5 credit] (formerly 51.412*)

Controversies in Rights Theory

Selected controversies in rights theories and practices. Illustrative questions may include: Are human rights culturally relative? Can rights be justified after the demise of natural rights philosophy? Do rights undermine "difference"? Do communities benefit from a rights-based culture? Are "rights" forms of governance?

LAWS 4306 [0.5 credit] (formerly 51.436*)

Criminal Law Issues

Selected issues and problems in the area of criminal law. The topics may vary from year to year depending on demand and interest and are announced in advance of registration. Topic is Drugs, the User and the State.

LAWS 4308 [0.5 credit] (formerly 51.438*)

Sentencing

Theories of sentencing, current sentencing laws and practices, perceptions of sentencing. Data on sentencing practice across Canada. Reforms in other jurisdictions. Critical review of the Canadian Sentencing Commission. Multidisciplinary approach using research and theory in law, criminology, social psychology and sociology.

LAWS 4903 [0.5 credit] (formerly 51.493*)

Advanced Legal Topics

The topics of this course may vary from year to year, and are announced in advance of registration. Topic is International Criminal Law.

Here are some technical books in various fields I am reading at the moment:

Taylor, Dave. Macworld Creating Cool Web Pages with HTML (Foster City, CA: IDG, 1995).

This book is great for simple reference to basic HTML. I have been using it for about 8 years. I use it about once a month like now when I need to look up the code for a definitons list like this one you're reading showing titles of books and a brief comment about each book. For more serious HTML references with more depth, I use Ian Graham's, The HTML Source Book: A Complete Guide to HTML 3.0 (New York, NY: Wiley, 1996).

Schwartz Randal L. & Christiansen, Tom. Learing Perl, 2d (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1993 & 1997).

I have tried to read this book before. I am volunteering as a recording secretary and administration secretary for two of my unions and a community group, so would like some help with report writing and quick editing of word processed documents. PERL promises this help. The problem is... I have not been able to learn much about PERL by reading about it alone. Oh well, I try again and borrowed this book today.

Schwartz, Alan. Managing Mailing Lists (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1998).

This book I bought to read for advice on managing... actually moderating mailing lists. I have present responsiblity as a volunteer for moderating two community group's email lists. These are real life organizations that use mailings lists. I have one of my own yahoo mailing lists too for geography studies discussions but it is only used once or twice a year, so it is sort of a dead list. It also has no real life affiliation. Some people confuse email mailing lists with mass marketing postal mailing lists but if you don't know yet what an Internet email mailing list is then it is easy to see why you might not know there's a difference. In fact, one can use an email mailing list for marketing but I don't think one could use a fund raising postal mailing list or mass market postal mailing list for discussions. I haven't read much of this book but I bought it just last week.

Gulbransen, David. The Complete Idiot's Guide to XML (Indianapolis, IN: QUE, 2000).

Instead of Y2K the year 2000 brought us this book. I started reading this book in the winter of 2003. I have been slowly writing a dtd or two. I have opened about three or four editors for writing XML on all three platforms Linux, Mac and Windos. All these XML editors seem to need a dtd to already exist. I read the whole book last year and am reading it again this year to reference for writing my dtd's. I have been using xemacs on my WinXP laptop most recently to work on one of my dtd's but plan to go back to Gedit next for this work.

Spector, David H.M. Building Linux Clusters (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2000).

Again Y2K didn't happen, I recorded my first movie off TV which was Y2K the movie and this book came out that year. Actually I had a friend record it as at that point, December 31, 1999, I could not work a VCR. I can now program and work a variety of VCR's. I can even install Red Hat 6.2 as a super computer on IBM hardware and this book and its accompanying CDROM made this happen. Reading this a couple of years ago I learned basic networking and SCSI with the help of other networking books since, and the web to learn SCSI facts. I find this a great book but apparently the publisher has appologised for publishing it. I could not get the web interface working on the supercomputer software maybe it was flawed or something. Contact me if you read or used this book just to share notes. I was reading this book recently to understand networking with more than one router.

Cross, David. Data Munging with PERL (Greenwich, CT: Manning, 2001).

Computer books seem to still to be written only by people named Dave or David and this book comes out a year after Y2K. I just got it today at the library and might stay up all night so I have time to read it before having to go work somewhere.

Bhasin, Shweta & Bhatia, Vikram. Web Security Basics (Cincinnati, OH: Premier, 2003).

Finally it is 2003 and this book is for Intermediate and Advanced users and it is not written by a Dave or a David. Other than that I haven't read it yet.

Well those are the technical books directly in computer science that I am reading. I will post some books on more social computer topics later as well as some technical books I am reading in statistics, GIS, GI science, hydrology, technology and disabilities, and finally some politics and techno-culture books. I mean cyberculture but don't want to use that word really.

Another busy day working as a tutor/student/teaching assistant ends and I feel great.

I am studying and training for volunteer work in victims services. I have attended 6 hours out of 40 now. So 34 more hours of training to go until I am able to volunteer.

I told my dad about school and he said finish your law degree after I said the statistics courses looked intimidating. I guess my recent interest in statistics could just be an affect of the summer weather which has been very cool this year and quite nice all round. I hear it has been good for farmers out West too in some ways at least keeping the grasshoppers in check. "Ah grasshopper you need to study law." =;+)

Here are the statistics courses I can study in the fall term:

STAT 3506 [0.5 credit] (formerly 70.356*)
Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory
Stochastic modeling, Markov chains, birth and death processes, renewal theory. Queueing theory: analytical and simulation methods. Applications to computer systems, operations research and social sciences.

STAT 3558 [0.5 credit] (formerly 70.358*)
Elements of Probability Theory
Random variables and moment-generating functions, concepts of conditioning and correlation; laws of large numbers, central limit theorem; multivariate normal distribution; distributions of functions of random variables, sampling distributions, order statistics.

STAT 3559 [0.5 credit] (formerly 70.359*)
Mathematical Statistics
Empirical distribution functions, Monte Carlo methods, elements of decision theory, point estimation, interval estimation, tests of hypotheses, robustness, nonparametric methods.


STAT 4503 [0.5 credit] (formerly 70.453*)
Applied Multivariate Analysis
Selected topics in regression and correlation non-linear models. Multivariate statistical methods, principal components, factor analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, discriminant analysis, canonical correlation, analysis of categorical data.

STAT 4506 [0.5 credit] (formerly 70.456*)
Non-Parametric Methods
Order statistics; rank statistics; permutations; asymptotics; hypothesis of randomness; stochastic ordering; Wilcoxon test; median test; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; hypothesis of symmetry and random blocks; independence hypothesis; treatment of ties; power and efficiency.

STAT 4601 [0.5 credit]
Data Mining I
Data visualization; knowledge discovery in datasets; unsupervised learning: clustering algorithms; dimension reduction; supervised learning: pattern recognition, smoothing techniques, classification. Computer software will be used.

STAT 4603 [0.5 credit]
Time Series and Forecasting
Multiple regression and forecasting. Exponential smoothing. ARIMA (Box-Jenkins) models. Smoothing of seasonal data. A statistical software package will be used.

STAT 4604 [0.5 credit]
Statistical Computing
Statistical computing techniques, pseudo-random number generation, tests for randomness, numerical algorithms in statistics; optimization techniques; environments for data analysis, efficient programming techniques; statistics with mainstream software.

The one math course I am interested in and have read some this area is

MATH 3806 [0.5 credit] (formerly 69.386*)
Numerical Analysis
Elementary discussion of error, polynomial interpolation, quadrature, linear systems of equations and matrix inversion, non-linear equations, difference equations and ordinary differential equations.


I believe the best pattern is STAT 4503 in the fall with MATH 3806. Then in winter a choice of STAT 4603 with either one of STAT 4601 or STAT 4604 but not both.

Here are the course descriptions for the fourth year law courses in Winter term 2005 I can consider. BTW I used to write course descriptions on little index cards as I thought this would help me organise and study better. Now today I simply open another browser window and go to the schools web site and copy and past the course descriptions into this editing window. Here are the courses:

LAWS 4101 [0.5 credit] (formerly 51.411*)
Contemporary Justice Theories
Selected major contemporary theories of justice such as those associated with Rawls, Walzer, and Habermas, with emphasis on both their procedural and substantive elements and their concrete ramifications for law, policy and political practice.

LAWS 4306 [0.5 credit] (formerly 51.436*)
Criminal Law Issues
Selected issues and problems in the area of criminal law. The topics may vary from year to year depending on demand and interest and are announced in advance of registration.

LAWS 4308 [0.5 credit] (formerly 51.438*)
Sentencing
Theories of sentencing, current sentencing laws and practices, perceptions of sentencing. Data on sentencing practice across Canada. Reforms in other jurisdictions. Critical review of the Canadian Sentencing Commission. Multidisciplinary approach using research and theory in law, criminology, social psychology and sociology.

LAWS 4504 [0.5 credit] (formerly 51.454*)
Aboriginal Criminal Justice
Aboriginal peoples and the administration of Canadian criminal justice including policing, courts, corrections and aftercare. Content and effects of past and present policies, processes and laws. Alternatives such as self-government and self-determination; potential approaches to an appropriate justice system for Aboriginal peoples.


If I study just legal studies this winter term I will choose two of these above courses.

I have read the first four chapters of Goggin, Gerald & Newell, Christopher, Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in the New Media (Lanham, ML.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). It is interesting for its critique of the medical model. It looks at telecommunications law and also policy as this relates to disability. It also looks at the deaf community.

I have read this mornings paper, reading the career ads briefly to see that nothing was close to what I do or want to do or have education in. I spent ten minutes just now searching the web job search site the school is now using. I also spent two hours last night researching jobs. I maybe able to do computer help desk work. XML a technology I have been teaching myself requires Linux and C/C+ prgramming skills as well as coding in XML.

I am maybe working today tutoring A again this time in calculus. He needs help with indefinite calculus and Reiman sums. I will review these topics later this morning. I told him to call this morning.

I helped deliver the newspapers this morning. I have been awake since about 5 PM yesterday afternoon. I hope to have a 25 hour day today but if A doesn't call by 1 or 2 I may just sleep at 3 PM.

I could study statistics next year and there are some very interesting courses in statistics. I could also study social and political philosophy and philosophy of mind or a law course in rights.

There are more fourth year statistics courses offered this year. I am thinking of going back to statistics studies this coming school year. This would be interesting that's for sure. I might also study social and political philosophy as that interests me. The only law course I am considering is a course in contraversies in rights theory.

We have to be clear about who makes definitions of variables and measures. I suggested in STAT3507 in 2001 that to write a clear question on a survey about crime, where ambiguity could be an issue in the respondant's understanding the question, that we use the criminal code to develop the wording of our question concerning crime. But this would be to let the legislative branch of government define our questions and thus the responses and understanding by the respondents and then it would effect our variables. Much like the wordings for questions in a survey at school is effected by the school's equity office or a human rights code effects question wording in a government survey when wording questions of sexual orientation or disability.

I understood this perspective of definitions after reading chapter two in Goggin, Gerald & Newell, Christopher, Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in the New Media (Lanham, ML.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). This chapter attempted to show that the deaf commmunity find cochlear implants unethical but the medical community find them ethical and thus culture determines values and ethics related to technology. The deaf do not feel they are less human than the hearing people are. Thus the deaf community has a culture that defines a cochlear implant differently than a medical community. Is disability really a loss or is it becoming a member of another community?

I know that when I accepted myself as insane that meant to me that I was by that fact allowed to become a great artist. I had joined the community of insane people and had not lost anything. Thus Virginia Lafond's book Greiving Mental Illness which suggests we greive properly the loss of our minds suggests that mental illness is a loss and that we must be made whole again. I believed her ten or so years ago. Now I understand how she played into the medical model and, in fact, I should reject her point of view and see again that loosing my mind was gaining an identity in a community and culture.

The authors Goggin, Gerald & Newell, Christopher ask a key question I need to think about at the end of their chapter two. I value a laptop screen highly but what value is it if the communication is not visual? What value does a laptop have to someone who has sight loss?

I completed my tutoring today. I explained some formuals for z scores and for x values form z scores to someone who is resistant to learning. I had to take it slow. He did gain confidence by the end of the session and we are working together again tomorrow.

I send the web address or url of this blog to the moderator of an email list for geography of disabilities. The moderator of the list Mike Dorn has just discovered blogs. He is going to share the address with the email list so if you're readings this and are from GEOABLE welcome to my blog. Thanks for taking a look. It is only the recent entries from July and June that have my disability studies covered. I have been studying legal studies last winter and last fall when this blog started. I do though read very widely so meantion quite a bit of literature and my opinions on these books.

I am working tomorrow tutoring a student. I will be tutoring second year psychological statistics. In other words statistics that are used by research and clinical statistics.

I studied a fair amount this weekend and got caught up on local daily newspapers. I read a good article about disabilities and assistive technology in the high tech section of Thursday's paper. I helped deliver the newspapers on Saturday. I did a 24 day Thursday night and again on Friday/Saturday. Today I am only doing an 18-20 hour day. I slept 8 hours the past two nights.

I have read the first two chapters and started on the third today of Bachman, Ronet & Schutt, Russel K. The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2d (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2003). This material is helping me review research methodology beyond just how to research using legal sources and citation rules. It is allowing me to see the details on how to design a survey or systematic observations. The details are quite interesting. There are sections about validity, ethics, measurement, and deductive and inductive reasoning. It also covers feasibility, social importance and scientific relevance for studies.

The other night I had a quick read of Valentine, Gill. What it means to be a man: the body, masculinities, disability in Butler, Ruth & Parr Hester, Eds. Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of illness, impairment and disability (London: Routledge, 1999) p. 167-180. I was left thinking about masculinities for the past few days and what this author had to say about this. But the point of the article was that disability changed a disabled miners view of his own identity but he remained masculine after coming to terms with his disability and this suggests that rather than viewing disability as disabling societies and the need to become politically aware, that, the practical strenght of working class masculinity can over come diversity and leave a disabled person healthy and fit and emotionally productive.

Psychiatric Survivors of Ottawa are having our AGM today at 1 PM. We will review our annual budget, appoint auditors, and elect some new board members. I am going to run for election to the board again. I am up against some good candidates. There are five open spots and about 6 or more candidates so there should be an actual election. From 1999-2001 I was on this board. E is presently on this board. I am just printing off my bio and making a speech for the election now.

I sent my wife off on the light rail train to meet her sister this morning.

I got my term paper back today. It got an A. I am pleased. I am not studying any formal courses again until September. I can't decide whether to study more law or philosophy or geography or math and statistics. I am though reading books on my own. I am reading a variety of different books on statistics. I am studying criminology and and a book on meta-responsibility for crimes and holding criminals responsibile for getting sicker. It is Mitchell, Edward W. Self-Made Madness: Rethinking Illness and Criminal Responsibility (Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2003). That is mentally disordered offenders. This is related to the insanity defense.

I am two thirds of the way through marking the STAT3502 mid-terms. I have about 20 books out from the library. I have two books out on computer crime and one book on electronic evidence. I have two long books out on criminology generally. I have one book out on cyborgs.

I have one required book out that is required for a course I still have to study. This is the LAWS2005 course in public law that I must complete for my Law BA. I plan to study that course as my very last law course in the BA. I plan to study it next summer. But it may be if I study geography or philosophy courses this coming school year that I will still need to study more law courses next year after LAWS2005 next summer.

I also have three or four books out on statistics. I have one book out on urban design and exercise and this book is proving helpful at keeping my wife active. I have a book out on UNIX basics. I might buy one of the O'Reilly books on Linux next week. I also have a book out with maps about civil war and demographic indicators for civil conflict. And lastley I think is a book on the recent history of Chinese science and technology policy and this book relates to some of my working world experiences.

I read the paper by Warhol, Robyn R. The Rhetoric of Addiction: From Victorian Novels to AA in Brodie, Janet Farrel & Redfiled, Marc. High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002). This is interesting for its comparisom of novels with the literature of AA. Her point is that culture is how everyone understands the alcoholic and that this understanding has been around before AA in the form of Victorian novels.

Yesterday I tried to read Weinstone, Ann. Welcome to the Pharmacy: Addiction, Transcendence, and Virtual Reality in Brodie, Janet Farrel & Redfiled, Marc. High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002). This was confusing and rather too abstract, and the closeness to and addiction to Code was hypothetical at best. Although this paper introduced a collection of science fiction novels that I have access to and these novels all have apparently the idea of addiction to cyberspace within them. I have my own doubts that cyberspace addiction is a real addiction. It seems to me that excessive use of computers is not harmful and is in fact productive. True not all computer use is beneficial or legal but to say that this means computers are addictive for an individual is I think in the end a mistake.

I also read a few nigths ago as the first paper in this book Keane, Helen Smoking, Addiction, and the Making of Time in Brodie, Janet Farrel & Redfiled, Marc. High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002). This is almost the same paper as in her book that I read this past winter and fall 2003. She does question the labelling of addictions as bad. She also says that there is very little admission of smoking as pleasurable in modern discourse. It would seem that admission should be equal and truth seeking. That is both sides of a moral argument should be given to admission of the facts. So that while some may be allowed to say in this instance that smoking is harmful to the health, others must be allowed to say that smoking is fun, cool and pleasurable. But the post-modern world as it is directed by the moral right seems to be not seeking the truth but instead weighted to quick implusive judgements of wrongful behaviour.

I did a library search today for disability studies. I did not actually look at the books on the shelfs or borrow any, but took their library call numbers to get later. I was familiarizing myself with the literature in disability studies. I also researched some critiques for disability statistics and printed off one article about statistics and disability from the journal Disability & Society.

I changed my major to a single major in law and a double minor in geography and philosophy. This change will be in time for the fall term and registering for courses in early August. My marks are not ready yet for my spring term law course.

I am reading two new books this Canada Day. One book is Goggin, Gerald & Newell, Christopher, Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in the New Media (Lanham, ML.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), the other book is Butler, Ruth & Parr Hester, Eds. Mind and Body Spaces: Geographies of illness, impairment and disability (London: Routledge, 1999). I am also reading about criminology theory and addiction's culture including again Helen Keane on smoking and time.

I am watching CBC and trying to guess the election today. CBC have a count down clock showing when Newfoundland's polls will close and we will get our first results. I surfed the cbc.ca web site and read up on the ridings in Newfoundland. They might all go Liberal. Only one typically goes Tory.

Like I say I am relaxed and I was able to publish two of my recent law essays to my crystalcomputing.net web site. They are here at this freshly edited web page. http://www.crystalcomputing.net/law.html. I used the same software I created the essays in Open Office to make them into web pages. Because I am relaxed I seem better at doing things like operating this computer to do web publishing. I also was able to read four days worth of front sections to our local city newspaper. I read a fair amount of letters to the editor and also crime and other court news. I also read the high-tech section for the week.

I feel great having completed another law course. I have not felt stressed all night except when helping R shop for a network hub for his xbox. I was chatting with him on-line using yahoo messenger.

I looked on the web at the University of Illinois on-line computer MCS program just now and a few hours ago.

I could apply to law school this fall and should get that process started but actually law school as I explained to my dad last night would not be a good idea for me and I find that with the hidden job market out there picking something classical like being a lawyer is not really a good idea.

I am at the point where I can decide to stop my law studies at this point with a three year degree completed or I can continue studying in this undergraduate program and complete a four year honours degree. While this may seem like a great achievment for someone with chronic schizophrenia it is I think a typically type of happening for a great number of people these days.

I have just been learning R. It works fine in WinXP and also works without graphics on the Thinkpad 360 running Debian 3. I was able to read the preface and work through part of the beginners sample. I would like to use R for graduate school. If there was ever a more vauge statement to make that must be it. I have been trained to use SAS at a very basic level. I can it seems teach myself to use R using the help files available.

I have read the outline and first article in Wall, David S. Ed. Crime and the Internet (New York, Routledge, 2001). The first chapter, Cybercrimes and the Internet is the outline and was written by the editor David Wall who is a the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice studies at the University of Leeds. The second chapter is by Ken Pease and is titled, Crime futures and forsight: Challenging criminal behaviour in the information age p. 18-28. Ken is or was a visiting Professor in the Jill Dando Institute at University College London. I completed reading that article on Wednesday. This morning I have read the third article: Grabosky, Peter & Smith, Russell. Telecommunications fraud in the digital age: The convergence of technologies p. 29-43. Grabosky is a Professor in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Smith is the Deputy Director of Research at the Australian Institute of Criminology.

I got some feedback from our instructor who said I needn't worry about my mark in the course. Thursday is our last class.

But rather than start to take time off I borrowed the first term source book for the public law course to start to study for that remaining second year core course public law. I also borrowed Unix in a Nutshell to study for an LPI 101 exam this coming July 10th. I am calculating that I will have two weeks to study for that and that should be enough time. I will have to register for the exam and pay for it to force myself to go through with it. I helped my dad network two Linux machines on the weekend, in fact, on Father's day I helped my dad.

I have 4 more questions to mark for 42 assignments in STAT3502. I need to start these tomorrow night at 10PM. I will do the marking until it is done hopefully before Wednesday.

I read some Internet crime studies today. Last night I read about Electronic Evidence. Saturday's Globe and Mail has two articles and one editorial about Child Porongraphy. These are connected to the Holly Jones case.

I gave a copy of Cyberselfish to my brother and my dad.

I printed a copy of my essay nearly done and gave it to a detective and doctor in the family to read.

There is discussion ging on this morning about discussions and decorum on the email list OCLUG, the Ottawa Canada Linux Users group general email list.

I did not mark assignments nor did I use R or read much about it. I did finish the first chapter in criminology research methods book. I did re-read an essay about cyber-terrorism which has yet to exist. I completed my paper in rough draft and am going to see a writing tutor at school in two hours. Her name is Megan. She will have a read of my paper. I am also buying some ink today for one of my printers. Then I either sleep or attend my city hall meeting and then sleep.

I agreed with a Muslim student in our criminal justice and social policy summer school, tonight that resistance is allowed in UN civil and political rights codes but not terrorism. He said Islamic law also allowed it to defend one's people. I also tend to agree with his definition that rock throwing by kids is resistance where as blowing one's self up is terrorism. Another student thought the difference had to do with the target where resistance was targetting soliders and terrorism was targetting civilians.

I just read a few books completing some chapters.

I am going to read the R manual now inspired by a criminology research methods book. The R home page is here at www.r-project.org. I am going to try crunching some data now with R on the eMacIntosh. I will also write some more of my essay before 1:00 am, when I will mark STAT3502 assignments for an hour or two.

I was able to install R version 1.8 on the Thinkpad 360SC. It seemed to work. But also installing it on the eMac showed that when demo(graphic) was used as a command version 1.9 of R ran screens of charts and pictures that of course just did not show up on the old 486.

I am buying some more ink for the Epson Photo Stylus 700 this week. I was able to print my essay on the Epson colour stylus 440 ok. It seems I now need to print at best quality to get perfectly readable text. I think this is perhaps the age of the printer causing it to degrade but it could also be the quality of the ink I am using.

I posted two emails to the OCLUG, this weekend and Monday. Both emails were status reports rather than problems described.

Studying terrorism is dangerous and our school and building where our classes are held has been attacked by at least a hoax during our course.

My essay is nearly done and I am up early this morning just finishing off some facts and police opinions on closed circuit video cameras.

I just read the preface and introduction of Andrew Silke, ed. Terrorists, Victims and Society (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2003). There are few dedicated researchers of terrorism and few psychologists working in this field. I am a statistician working in this field and a legal studies student. I should be focusing on risk and insurance but am instead looking at information in terms of keeping it secret and also in terms of exposing the security apparatus.

I attended the Small Press bookfair selling my wife's poetry. I got a CD of poetry and music from the the cofee house art group. This is their web site www.coffeehouse.ca. I also got a video CD from the No frequency of the New York City Surveillance Camera Players (http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html) and their camera tour of New York city. I am going to include some of their statistics in my essay for LAWS4701.

I am printing off minutes for the community coalition that I attend as part of my duties in volunteering in local government. Speaking of government, I can't help but admire Ronald Regan and Brian Mulroney. Because that is the way the media present them to me. The underground present them in quite a different light.

I have an article from the Ottawa Citizen, speaking of media, quoting the Chief of the R.C.M.P. on video cameras used for crime control. I also have a copy of a Video CD from the New York Surveillance Camera Players about video surveillance cameras in New York City. Both of these could be put in my paper along with Jon Coaffee stuff, as opinions on whether intelligence information should be secret or not. But only the academic Coaffee really gives facts. The Chief gives weight and counter opinion to his profession. The NYCSCP give some facts that might be good enough for the paper but I am not sure. Do I want to go to video cameras and combine that with GIS? Are these both cyborg techno fixes?

What is the true social change here the videos cameras, the suppression of information or the opening of information? Where does this leave the people in my debate? Where does it leave space? Where does it leave capital; and where does it leave the workers? I tired to write about video cameras in terms of information exposure and got off some logical or illogical argument. I need to arrest this thread.

I am reading last week's newspapers.

I just read some pages from Pauline Borsook's, Cyberselfish (New York: Public Affairs, 2000). I first read this book in a library copy cover to cover in 2002 after I graduated from my first degree. I found it for sale at 3.99 and bought two copies on it in paperback this past month.

There is nothing like studying a summer course in any subject even remotley political when the instructor has agreeable politics and there is an election happening. Not only myself but many others in our class are performing at their best. I am working so hard on this course. I am highly motivated to work on this course. I have also had a good rewrite of my paper after class last night and have included many more ideas that are on my mind for many years about security. I have also been able to clarify my presentation around information and the charging of terrorist suspects. I am proving that a lefty can take a practical law and order approach but not be moving to the right. I have now worked about 70 hours out of class time for 20.5 hours class time. My presentation has been given and was similar to another presentation but different showing I am not off base at all. There maybe a left field and I may be standing in it but I am not "out in left field".

So as of this morning I have put in 68 hours out of class study time into my course. This is after an appointment with the writing tutorial service yesterday. I need to rewrite my paper for more clarity. I will rewrite the paper today making another 4 hours possibly meaning about 72 hours and after class tonight we will have had about 20.5 in class hours. So tonight's ratio will be less than 4/1 so it will be slipping below the ideal of 4/1.

I may need to use R for statistics. R is available for GNU. Therefore I need to get a GNU machine working.

I have installed the base system and I think a few compilers on the Thinkpad 360SC. So I have a functioning basic Linux system now.

Xandros is now available as a free download. This was mentioned on the Ottawa Canada Linux users Group email list today by someone from Xandros. I will download it later.

Today I have to use a data projector at school. I will play a slide show from Open Office on my laptop and show my presentation on GIS and emergency response in class tonight. I have also printed the slides on paper using a laser printer at the school's library. I printed on both sides of the page. I chatted with Heather Cross our library help person. She has a sociology MA and a Law and sociology BA from Carleton.

This is stressfull. Up at 2 PM yesterday then up all night until about 4 PM today. I realise this is working within my symptoms so is experimental. Some suggest we will be hospitalised if we don't get enough rest.

I write some more of my paper and checked with a disabilities counselor about it. I also emailed the instructor about it. I have gotten permission to use a projector for the laptop at school on Thursday and my presentation is done now. I completed it in about an hour last night then spend an hour or two perfecting the colours of the writing and testing the print out and also preparing to take the file to school today to print handouts. I prepared it with Open Office a free office suite that is interoperatible with Microsoft Office. You can find it here www.openoffice.org.

I also attended my lecture last night and borrowed books from the library. I also then had to read these books. That reading was relaxing.

I just read my paper over again. I have some ideas of what I will still add to the paper from my original research. The paper is also provoking some thoughts and I will follow these arguments and try to clarify what I am saying. Mostly I am building a single layer dot plot of arguments where the first layer is the work of others. The second layer, in other words, places where there are two observations of the same point occuring in the paper are limited, in fact, this really only occurs where the law of disclosure is looked at. Also in this section I need one more footnote from Kent Roach but don't have his book now. My own ideas are more in the gathering of these ideas and putting them together into a debate rather than any great thoughts.

I have been reading David Wall on cybercrime this morning or rather his intro chapter to Crime and the Internet that he edited. I don't like all the cyber hyphenated words he uses and insist again that we keep cyberpunk literature in its place and that we use words like network and computer instead. This will greatly reduce media hype in computer criminology which is one of Wall's cavets to this new field of study I hope to master in my MA program in legal studies.

I also read a little of Bruno Latour's Pandora's Hope this morning. I picked this up after reading Chris Habel Gray's rejection of Latour's personification of objects. I did agree with Gary when I read him. I also did not like Latour's writing when I first read it last winter, 2003. I found he did not respect his reader. Gray makes a good point about politics depending on real human bodies but Gray is a bit of a crack pot Neo American constitutionalist and I don't need that.

Also this morning I read an article from Downey, Gary Lee & Dumit Joseph Eds. Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies (Santa Fe, NM:, School of American Research Press, 1997) about an HIV knowledge study amongst IUD users in Baltimore.

Last night I read about Time Series Analysis. I have borrowed three books on this topic. One book has programming exercises.

What will you do to create new affordable housing and new social housing? This is the question suggested by my landlord that we ask of our political candidates.

I worked about 6 hours today on my essay for LAWS4701 with Chris McNaught. So I have done about 62 hours out of class work now. We have had about 14.5 hours class time amd I have missed 4 hours of that. So 62/14.5 is 4.42 out of class to in class ratio.

I woke up at 2:30 this morning. I have been writing entries on my blogs and emails. I have been researching politician's blogs. I have used the school's disabled student centre's on-line forum. I have read a little research and done a few small corrections to my paper. I still, this morning need to enter a few summeries for my class presentation this week. Later this morning at 9 am I need to to attend a community meeting of agencies involved in disability support. I am powering up my Palm Vx to keep minutes at this meeting. I have written a poem this morning for a writers group exercise. The writers group is later today at 16:00. I will give a tutorial later today on probability as part of my work.

I completed reading the intro chapter of Grabosky, Peter & Smith, Russell G. & Dempsey, Gillian. Electronic Theft: Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

I have been asked to help research and draft a response for my Green Party candidate in the federal election to the University of Ottawa's information law institute for their web page at http://www.cippic.ca/election2004. I have started an answer that promotes local creative economies. I also think copyright should reward arists and scientists not companies similar the the Cyborg Bill of Rights as written by Chris Hables Gray.

I read two chapters now of Gray, Chris Hables. cyborg citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age (New York: Routledge, 2001). This book cyborg citizen has a web site here at this URL http://www.Routledge-ny.com/CyborgCitizen/. I am just starting to explore it this morning.

I am also expecting my cyborg url www.cyb.org to be live soon. This will cost me about 75$ for one year to have a cute URL for my computer web log book.

I have a full six pages of written text now for my paper. I have four articles left to review for my slide show. I took a picture of a bus emergency exit to add to my presentation for an intro or extro to the slide show.

These are the books I borrowed on Thursday night after my LAWS4701 class taught by Chris McNaught.

Wall, David, ed. Crime and the Internet (London, Routledge, 2001).

This book suggests that neither a big crime or no crime has occurred because of the Internet. Rather a lot of minor small crimes have occurred and we still aren't sure what, where, why, who, when and how the Internet is existing and changing existence. It is a collection of papers about Internet crime by criminologists from the UK. I have not read much of it yet.

Grabosky, Peter & Smith, Russell G. & Dempsey, Gillian. Electronic Theft: Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

This book examines cybercrime but in particular theft using computers.

Rigakos, George S. The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control (Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 2002)

This book is a study of Intelliguard services in Toronto. From the looks of it the demographics are not very deep. The statistics seem superficial. There is a lot more to the book that I haven't looked at yet though.

Zylinska, Joanna ed. The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (London: Continuum, 2002).

I don't know what this book is about yet.

Gray, Chris Hables. cyborg citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age (New York: Routledge, 2001).

This book examines briefly all kinds of cyborgs but the main theme is the politics of the cyborg age in particular participatory politics. So this book is both maybe a green politics book and also in the subfield of political science studies that I place my own political science studies. I am tempted to read more of this book but also tempted not too.

I read a paper last night and summerized it on half a slide for my presentation to my LAWS4701 class on June 10th. The paper was Bruzewicz, Andrew J. Remote Sensing Imagery For Emergency Management in Cutter, Susan L. & Richardson, Douglas B. & Wilbanks, Thomas J. eds. The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2003) p.87-97.

These are the books I borrowed last night from the library.

Sweet, Stephan A. & Grace-Martin, Karen. Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics (Boston: Pearson Education, 2003)

This book uses two data sets on disk. The disk was not available to borrow. Then using this data the authors guide the student through the process of analysing and intrepeting the data. The main focus is on interpretation of data.

Cincotta, Richard P. & Engelman, Robert & Anastasion Daniele. The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict After the Cold War (Washington, D.C.: Population Action International, 2003).

This book uses maps, tables and population pyramids to look at possible causes or corelates to civic conflict. One main point from demographics is that as countries pass though the phases of the demographic transition they become less prone to civil conflict.

Dingledine, Roger. Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Third International Workshop, PET 2003 Dresden, Germany, March 2003, Revised Papers (Berlin: Springer, 2003)

I have not looked at this book yet.

Bland, Douglas L. & Maloney, Sean M. Campaigns for International Security: Canada's Defence Policy at the Turn of the Century (MOntreal, Que.: McGill-Queens University Press, 2004)

This books looks at Canada's various defence operations and policy in the 1990's and presently.

Mauroni, Al. Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Reference Handbook (Sanata Barbara, Ca: ABC-CLIO, 2003).

This is basic book that covers chemcial and biological warfare. The author questions whether these weapons are really a moral issue and says they are not thus showing how American scholars do not question warfare as much as other world scholars.

I attended my classes for 4.5 hours out of 6 hours this week. That is the official time the actual time was about 5 hours class and I attended 3.5 hours. So with 9.5 hours class time I have attended 8 hours.

I worked for two hours this morning on my paper and presentation which are the only graded components of the course besides participation. I also spent two hours reading some new books and old books last night related to the course. That makes about 43 hours now outside of the class room. Or about 5/1 outside/inclass ratio. Down from last week but still above ideal.

I am tutoring a student in psychological methods and statistics today and tomorrow might be tutoring a student in private law studies.

I completed reading Kent Roach's book this morning at 10:00. I took one more quote and seem to have developed a thesis for my paper now. I also seem to be able to link the legal topic with the emergency responder topic and GIS now. I seem to agree personally in the main with Roach.

I now have forty five pages left to read in Kent Roach, September 11: Consequences for Canada (Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queens University Press, 2003).

I have fifty five pages left to read in Kent Roach, September 11: Consequences for Canada (Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queens University Press, 2003).

I completed reading chapter 5 The Challenges of Preserving Canadian Democracy in Kent Roach, September 11: Consequences for Canada (Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queens University Press, 2003). I have two more chapters to read about 70 pages before I take this book back on Tuesday, May 25th.

I spent some time making proper footnotes for a book I have to take back to the school library on Tuesday as another student has put a hold on it. I also spent some time printing more laws out for my 3 ring legislative binder. I also read some more of the books I have extra and the course text book. In terms of reading I am almost completed the weekend reading that was assigned on Thursday. So I studied for about 3 more hours for a total of 36 hours outside of class.

I signed my assignment of duties form with my new supervisor yesterday M. She even gave me tutorial centre hours. I was able to schedule these with Anne Woodside one of my professors from the past as Anne Woodside looks after the tutorial centre. This arrangment pleased me and I am happy with this work condition. I did study the union's CA yesterday and maybe this helped make this process pleasing. There have been some reports of vandelism in the new centre that is only one year old now in its new location.

I also talked to my scheduling supervisor in another job and there is no work this week or next.

Therefore I should try to get as much of my school work done as possible in this week and next.

I was able to help with the newspaper route today. The fellow who does the route D is limping badly and it is sad to see him have to work himself to death just to make a living. He is a polio survivor.

I have another job where I have completed my hours for fiscal 2003 now. My employer the self help group network now owe me nothing and I owe them nothing. We need to negotiate the next years work, that is this year fiscal 2004.

I got my textbook yesterday for the course I am to TA. It has a CD with datasets on it. I copied them to my WinXP laptop because it has SAS on it. The CD is ISBN: 0-534-39939-8. The course is STAT3502 in the Carleton University course codes. The professor I am working with is Meltem Tuna. She is a good supervisor so far. I will have office hours in the tutorial centre. This pleases me.

In first year a couple of people advised me to put in twice as many out of class study hours as classroom hours in first year university. One of them also said in fourth year one would need to put in even more hours. In this fourth year law course I have put in 33 hours so far outside of class. I have put in 4.5 hours class time so far. So right now out of class to in class has a ratio of 33 to 4.5 or 7.33.

I have a computer slide show started on emergency preparedness and GIS for this course. I also have a paragraph or two started for my course paper. I did both of these study tasks with Open Office (www.openoffice.org).

I put in another hour this morning and yesterday on my LAWS4701 course. I started a computer slide show for a presentation. I am choosing to do a GIS and emergency response topic. I will introduce this generally then cite some authors and present thier views and ideas on the topic. I will then highlight some issues that are still not solved.

I read one more paper in one book yesterday before calling it quits. The paper was in The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism in chapter 2 Societal Responses to Threats it was 2.3 in that chapter... bibliographic cite: Galloway, Gerald E. Emergency Preparedness and Response: Lessons Learned from 9/11 in Cutter, Susan L. & Richardson, Douglas B. & Wilbanks, Thomas J. eds. The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2003) p. 27-34.

I have one more paper still to read in chapter 2 then 6 more chapters. Right now I am going to read a little more about computers.

I put in about 6 hours this weekend on the LAWS4701 course. I spent some time with Quick law two hours ago researching disclosure in law cases from a book on the Law of Evidence. I have read about 7 books so far for this course. I have only completed reading one of these books and that book was 61 pages long. I have read books on geography and terrorism, psychology and terrorism and architecture and terrorism. I only really have one book on law and terrorism. I completed a chapter in that book today and am about half way through that book now. I spent about two hours writing today and one hour yesterday. I have about two pages written in my essay now. I should try to put in 144 hours outside of the classroom for the course. I have put in almost 30 hours now.

I am writing and researching another school paper on the WinXP laptop. I am also using the eMac fairly constantly. I think the Linux projects will be on hold for a while to reduce stress.

I had some thoughts tonight of beginnning and continuing to study for the LPI 101 certification again. But I can't afford anything extra right now and one of my domain names is up for renewal and I have an idea for a new domain name to point to my computer log book blog.

I just read Mitchell, James K. Urban Vulnerability to Terrorism as Hazard in Cutter, Susan L. & Richardson, Douglas B. & Wilbanks, Thomas J. eds. The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2003) p. 17-25. This article sets a research agenda and was most inspiring. I could consider some of the statments in this article for quotes to address practical solutions to terrorism prevention and law enforcement.

Here is an interesting UN web page with plenty of articles about computers. http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue4/Digital.asp. Have a look at a few of the articles.

The second paper in Pepper, David & Jenkins, Alan. The Geography of Peace and War (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985) p. 29-41 was O`Sullivan, Patrick. The Geopolitics of Deterrence.

I read Thomas, Deborah S. K. Public Health, Law Enforcement, and Hazards Management in Cutter, Susan L. & Richardson, Douglas B. & Wilbanks, Thomas J. eds. The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2003) p.9-15. This article allows me to see that cooperation between public health, law enforcement and hazards researchers would benefit the struggle against violence. I could use this article of any of the articles in this book for intergrating the law studies we will do in LAWS4701 with the geography of hazards. Although thinking about it right now Freedom of information laws could best be related to the study of terrorism laws. That investigative hearing and other judicial processes are to work in secret could be the key to writing an essay that includes meantion of GIS data but also focuses on the criminal law aspects of the Anti-Terrorism Act

I read Rogers, Marc. The Psychology of Cyber-Terrorism in Andrew Silke, ed. Terrorists, Victims and Society (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2003) a few days ago. I also read Silke, Andrew. The Psychology of Suicidal Terrorism in the same book.

I called the school bookstore to see if our course pack is in yet. It is not in yet. I have to decide whether to buy the other book today or maybe Monday. I think today. I have a couple of other bus trips to do today. Otherwise I am not working today.

I completed reading chapter 2 of September 11 by Kent Roach on the bus today on the way to work. I started chapter 3 on the way home.

Tomorrow I buy my course textbooks, one book on Canada-US relations and one course pack style book.

Larry Davidson whose book Living Outside Mental Illness I have been reading the past few weeks describes the sort of value free assumption free research he attempts to do with his interview team. They are not looking for a grand theory or a predictive science.

Here is a quote about insight that is good and possible uplifting. Warning this effect will wear off in the company of clinical psychiatrists

From the section in chapter 4 entitled "I may be crazy, but I am not stupid"

In this way, schizophrenia appears to be similar to other illnesses that manifest certain signs and symptoms behaviorally without, or prior to, more internal changes. Unlike fever, in which the person feels hotter than usual, diabetes, for example, may at first be suggested through frequent urination but then is diagnosed through blood tests. Prior to experiencing what one comes to recognize as the effects of low blood sugar, there is no experience of diabetes per se. Even in cases in which the signs or symptoms of an illness maybe experienced subjectively as well as observed behaviorally, such as the difficulties in breathing characteristic of asthma, the person is not aware of the nature of the illness until these signs have been explained through a healthcare provider's assessment and diagnosis. The same appears to be true of psychosis; there is no definitive experience of psychosis per se from which a person might then infer independently "I am suffering from a psychotic disorder"
Is this what is meant by the lack of awareness of illness in schizophrenia? It would be unreasonable to describe people with schizophrenia as lacking insight just because they were unable to determine the nature of their disorder on their own......
[Larry Davidson, Living Outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia (New York: New York University Press, 2003) p.133.]

Before sleeping last night I read a paper by Marc Rogers titled The Psychology of Cyber-Terrorism from the book Andrew Silke, ed. Terrorists, Victims and Society (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2003). This might figure in a paper about computer security. Although again the cyber attacks are speculative. Noted here in this paper is the media attention that feeds terrorism and the media attention given to cyberspace.

I attended a luncheon put on by the National Anti-Poverty Organisation to lunch Voices: Women, Poverty and Homelessness in Canada. I met the researchers and the report's authors. As well I met NAPO staff and local community activists. Napo's web site should be here at this URL: www.napo-onap.ca.

I also borrowed a book by Jan Sokolowski & Jean-Paul Zolesio, Introduction to Shape Optimization: Shape Sensitivity Analysis (Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1992). This is to prepare for this weeks Field's workshop.

I borrowed three books about terrorism. Two of these are from a geographical perspective. I got home and read two papers in one book. These papers were in chapter 7 Building a Safer but Open Society of the book Cutter, Susan L. & Richardson, Douglas B. & Wilbanks, Thomas J. eds. The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2003). The papers were Harlan Onsrud, Openness versus Security of Geographic Information in Cutter, Susan L. & Richardson, Douglas B. & Wilbanks, Thomas J. eds. The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2003) p. 207-212 and William B. Wood, Geosecurity again in Cutter, Susan L. & Richardson, Douglas B. & Wilbanks, Thomas J. eds. The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2003) p. 213-222.

I did go to school today. I went to the library and also the bookstore.

I read chapter 2 in Health and Community Design: the Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity. Chapter two covered urban design periods and concluded that various urban design movements had been mainly motivated by public health. A zoning law case, Euclid v. Ambler Realty, (1926), in the Supreme Court in the USA was discussed. Here the court ignored the rights of the poor. Also neighbourhoods as basic planning units was discussed in this chapter near the end. Planning started to be focused around the automobile which meant that inactivity was being designed in to development. More and more the garden town and the idea that nature equals health drove the intellectuals and the real estate market.

I am re-reading chapter 1 in Frank, Lawrence D. & Engelke, Peter O. & Schmid, Thomas L., Health and Community Design: the Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity (Washington: Island, 2003). the basic premise is that public health determines our cities design.

I re-read chapter 1 in this book this morning Frank, Lawrence D. & Engelke, Peter O. & Schmid, Thomas L., Health and Community Design: the Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity (Washington: Island, 2003). The basic premise is that health determines how our cities are designed. The secondary and more important premise is that our sprawled cities were the result of healthy design against communicable diseases but have now been found to be lacking in providing environments in which to exercise and gain healthy physical activity. We have become dominated by the car design cities. Even 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day is an improvement to our health.

I am practicing legal research. I am studying a course this summer that concerns terrorism. I just downloaded the US Patriot Act and yesterday printed off the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act. I also have to print off the Immigration Act of Canada. This is preliminary reading for this course. I don't find this too stressful. I have also done some other reading both on topic and off topic but related to my on topic reading. I am particularly trying not to be too off topic and tangential right now.

I am relaxed a bit. I did attend the conference for one sesssion yesterday. This session concerned Mexican labour and also childbirth in Europe and also the changing age of women who give birth. I asked one question of a grad student. After the session I talked a bit over coffee with the student M.R. who had studied the Mexican labour demographics and told her about my labour research at Stat's Can. I took some free coffee.

After this session I took the train home and then stayed up with my wife. We talked a lot. I showed her my clinical nursing handbook and how to use it. I read a little para-psychology from a philosophy course reader and then slept at 3 or 3:30. I woke up at about 1 am this morning

I am getting my sleep adjusted so I can attend a three day workshop and be on time. The workshop starts on Wednesday this coming week.

I am starting my study of directly looking at Anti-terrorism laws and will be printing off the laws on my Epson 440 over the next hour.

I have not been doing any school work for while now. Things will pick up next week in math studies. I might prepare a bit and should check the workshop web site today.

My dad Thomas Timusk was written up in this month's Scientific American. He kept copies of this magazine in his office for years. He seems to have ruled out some possible explainations for behaviour of High-Tc superconductors in an experiment. He has been working in super conductivity research for over twenty years now.

I did not go to the conference which is the Great Lakes Conference title Global Governance in the 21st century. I am not as upset with my LAWS4204 mark as I am with my LAWS3907 mark. I think this emotional involvment comes from the grades I expect and the distance of the expected grade from the earned grade.

I sent the professor an email regreting my low grade. I also emailed someone in support at the Paul Menton Centre.

I am just taking time off and and have been talking with friends last night and working on computer configurations in the wee hours of the morning.

I passed my ecommerce course but the mark brought my grade point average down a point. It was really a poor mark for my recent law studies. I guess the professor does not like students who argue with him in class. Maybe he did not value my efforts. I read quite a lot about the Internet for this course. Oh well on to the summer term. Based on this mark my mark in LAWS3907 with Susan Haslip was just fine. So far I have only really had three business law professors. Two out of three ain't bad. But this professor Campbell is really not a very good scholar and my calling him out in class during his lectures I think put my grade at risk. This means he is not an honourable professor.

I am going to a conference today, Friday and Saturday.

I changed my mind about summer school and the exact nature of my second undergrad degree. Instead of doing a combined degree I am going to study for a one subject degree. That subject is just law. This means I can study LAWS2005 this summer which is a core course in public law. I am still not sure but I took a place in this LAWS2005 course just in case that is what I want to do with my summer.

I didn't end up going to school yesterday. Today I stayed up all morning from last night and attended a community meeting in the morning. I volunteered to look into the cities budget and how it affects the disabled.

My grades still aren't ready for my Internet legal issues course. Somehow I think I may have only scored a C in this course. But more likley a B.

My professor from last winter's course in Information legal issues has invited me to a conference this week. I will have to miss the green party meeting this week to attend the keynote address. This conference could be 2 hours on Thursday night for the keynote and wine and cheese, at which, of course I won't drink, but will eat. Then two day time periods of sessions, Friday and Saturday. I don't have any scheduled work so can go to these. The conference is on globalisation and power and the analysis of this. It is put on by our department of Political Economy by graduate students in that department. It should be fasinating and I will try to attend the whole thing.

I have a workshop next week that is three days long at the other university in town. This workshop is in math and covers shape optimisation. This will be my first advanced math workshop. Feeling like John Nash, I am.

I did a first search on the word *terrorism* in the title of books and other resources at the university library. I will now go to school and buy an ink cartridge and check for course books and borrow some of these books. I will also return some books.

I completed reading my back ground research on Chemical and Biological warfare in Ranger, Robin, The Canadian Contribution to the Control of Chemical and Biological Warfare (Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1976). This book introduced me to international policy based on technical expertise. This also covered a middle power Canada influencing the major power the USA.

Now in our course we may look at CBW policy because this was an issue in Iraq.

This book taught me that chemical weapons facilities can not be verified as easily as biological and thus this non verifiability was a stumbling block to updating chemical weapons agreements for arms control.

This book could show how we ended up doing what we have done in Iraq. But is that all of us? Did we all do something in Iraq? I have a vauge idea that chemical warfare was used in the Iran-Iraq war. I had seen soliders die in troves on TV as they were gased. So was it Iraq's path or the path of the US or the path of arms control that lead to the frantic search for chemical and biological weapons in Iraq.

Also this book at no time said it was possible for a smaller power to effectively use these types of weapons. Especially biological weapons were beyond the hands of smaller states so we could assume that terrorists could not have had the ability to use these weapons in 1976. Whether they have them now is another question that I think plays into massive changes in quality around the world(globalism), in this case the quality of chemical weapons production tools.

testing one two three. this blog appears to be off line at the moment.

I am studying in this workshop this summer:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL POLICY SUMMER SCHOOL 2004 MAY 17 TO JUNE 25

Human Rights and (Over) Reaction in a Security Conscious World

LAWS 4701A

Title: Sovereignty & Security: Balance in an Unbalanced World

Instructor: Chris McNaught

Lessons learned? A post-9/11 Afghanistan-Iraq critical analysis of national and international (over) reaction to the current phenomenon of terror: are we truly ‘fighting terrorism’, or just wounding civil liberties? Already, legal challenges have surfaced to the indefinite incarceration of ‘enemy combatants’ at Guantanamo Bay, the integrity of any related tribunal hearings, the (U.S.) Patriot Act, the (Canada) Anti-Terrorism Act, immigration policies (minister’s certificates, racial profiling); taken with continued bombings (Spain, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan) should we question whether legislative and policy responses were symbolic, short-term political messages rather than effective security measures. Did we/will we compromise or sell out our sovereign identity under such seductions as a ‘North American defence perimeter’ and new versions of Star Wars? Are we any safer than before---who are ‘we’?

I read a little more of the second chapter in Teach Yourself C++ this morning. I am almost finished this chapter.

I am reading Ranger, Robin, The Canadian Contribution to the Control of Chemical and Biological Warfare (Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1976). This is for my criminal justice and social policy workshop this summer and is background reading. I am about halfway through this short book. It covers the recent history of the use of these weapons and also looks at the use of riot gas in the Vietnam war. The focus on this book is Canadian knowledge in this weapons field and how that knowledge can help us effect policy in the international arena.

I read the second paper in the geography of peace and war. This covered perceptions of space between nations. The author suggested networks as a better spatial model than super power poles.

I printed out all my blogs for rough copy binders. This is public information. It is non-protected class A data.