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My life as a project manager...
I've spent my afternoon trying to fit my project, which involves mostly software development, into a project model for service based projects. (RBM is especially well suited for donors taking credit for the impact of development work, so it's all the rage these days despite forcing the occasional square peg into a round hole ( Read more... ) -
29 Absences in ENG0A
I love English. I know there's probably very little conscious decision-making when it comes to making its rules, but it amuses me to imagine a bunch of folks sitting around the table debating it ( Read more... ) -
Vote for Someone Better (than You)
As I'm sure you know, both Canada and the US are off to the polls in a few weeks. If you didn't, please go pat yourself on the back not living in, or being from, North America. If you do happen to be in North America and didn't know this, just stop reading now - you have more important problems to deal with, like being a moron. Speaking of morons, ( Read more... ) -
I've moved!
My new blog is at mangocado.ca. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do about LiveJournal because I do enjoy reading my friends page, but posting here began to frustrate me too much ( Read more... ) -
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For tizol ( Read more... ) -
Inform Me!
No need to feel insecure, Canada. You're the best at something! ( Read more... ) -
Amik
I wonder whether 'rainbow' and 'beaver' would've had the same connotations in 1976.
Olympic mascot wasn't the first thing to come to mind. I'm a jerk though.
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C 50
A backlog of 900 000 only means 900 000 who are, off the bat, no longer going to receive even our imitation of fair consideration. You as a person are not a better judge of applicants than the system is. Re-weighting things to favour certain industries (the tune you keep playing) will not magically make that system faster. Discriminating based on ( Read more... ) -
Why we're not worried about climate change when we probably should be...
If Al Gore thinks climate change is such a problem, why doesn't he go to Mars and activate the alien reactors that magically create an entire planet's atmosphere in about 15 seconds like his colleague Arnold Schwarzenegger does in Total Recall? -
Two steps forward, One step back
Two steps forward: I've finally figured out what to say when people ask me what I'm doing now that I've graduated. I say, "I've accepted a management position with the Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade in Chiapas, Mexico. I'll be leaving in September." I'm going to be doing some web development, but also more general communications work ( Read more... )