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.

I completed reading chapter three and thus part I in the book by Denning, Dorothy E., Information Warfare and Security (Reading, Mass.: Adison-Wesley, 1999).

I am preparing for emergencies and purchased five flashlights of different types including solar and head worn flashlights. My wife and I each have pocket first aid kits that can be attached to belts. I also have family St. John's kit that has almost never been used, but has been ready on numerous intercity bus and car trips, as well as, being around the house for years. I also have a home made kit which I carry in my knapsack. We also have two medicine cabinets with various drugs and ointments. We have an electronic temperature measurement device and also a glucometer. I guess all we need now is a stethoscope and blood pressure cuff.

We also have an anatomy colouring book, two or three first aid books, books on the brain and diet, a book on sexuality, and various periodicals on schizophrenia. I also have book for communicating medical information to people with low literacy abilities.

Besides these books I have a small ten to twenty book shelf of books for each of the basic university subject areas. I have also specialist literatures for Geography, Law and Math, Natural Sciences and Sociology. I have bought these books from book stores, book clubs, second hand book stores including charity shops and I have also for the past 6 years bought books on-line most at Amazon.

I studied Palm labels and fields, this morning, but did not examine the code carefully in chapter 7 of Bachmann, Glenn, Palm Programmming: The Authoriative Solution (Indianapolis, IN: Sams, 1999). But am only up to chapter 4 actually with reading, reviewing and working with the code in Code Warrior's Palm Constructor. I am doing this learning on my WinXP laptop.

I completed after about two weeks reading van der Wusten, Herman, "The Geography of Conflict Since 1945" in The Geography of Peace and War (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985).

I am also reading about anti-terrorism architecture some more. I am also about half way through chapter 3 in Denning, Dorothy E., Information Warfare and Security (Reading, Mass.: Adison-Wesley, 1999). I also have the US Army policy on Information Warfare somewhere around here on floppy.

These are the legal studies and geography books I am reading at the moment:

Pepper, David & Jenkins, Alan, The Geography of Peace and War (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985).

I first read this book in Winter term 1987. It concerns war and nuclear war. It is an effort of geographers to join in the 1980's peace movement.

Coaffee, Jon, Terrorism, Risk and the City: the Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape (Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2003).

This book looks at urban design and the fortification of the cities of Belfast and London. It also looks at the insurance industry and Ulrich Beck's the Risk Society.

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)

Burks, Peter, Unjust Enrichment (Oxford: Oxford, 2003).

These are the computer related books I am reading at the moment.

Bachmann, Glenn, Palm Programmming: The Authoriative Solution (Indianapolis, IN: Sams, 1999).

This book explains the tools and code needed to make applications for the Palm handheld computer.

Stevens, Al, Wiley's Teach Yourself C++ 7d (New York: Wiley, 2003).

This book starts with the basics of programming in C++ similar to C and then goes further.

Schroeder, Michael & Wagner, Gerd, eds., Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web: Second International Workshop, RuleML 2003 Sanibel Island, FL, USA, October 2003 Proceedings (Berlin: Springer, 2003).

This book includes papers about web searching technologies for example.

Delwiche, Lora D. & Slaughter, Susan J., The Little SAS Book: a primer (Cary, NC: SAS Institute, 1998).

This book teaches how to do basic SAS and describes the structure of programs, data formats, and use of Data and Proc steps.

Denning, Dorothy E., Information Warfare and Security (Reading, Mass.: Adison-Wesley, 1999).

At work one other co-workers is also a student at my school. He studies sociology and political science and business. He will also be attending summer school. Another co-worker I met on Saturday is a law student at our cities law school which is a different university. He is writing three exams this week.

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.