http://jeremyvernon.com Information Management and Decision Making Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:51:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en DropFees.ca, for anyone not submerged in the murky depths of Ontario higher-education, is a movement orchestrated by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) to agitate for increased government subsidy of higher-learning. This is not something one could or should divine from their moniker. The CFS rightly observes that Ontario has the ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/11/05/dropfees-is-not-the-answer/ Today, I will argue, is the most important day that my fellow students remember as adults. 9/11, for most here, occurred somewhere in middle-school. A hazy, illformed and underinformed event whose significance wasn't comprehended until years later. Today is the day, finally, that we - the world - can get down ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/11/04/stop-wincing-start-working/ I attended this year's Free Software and Opensource Software Symposium at Seneca College this year. As it was last year, it was an engaging event to meet with some major actors in the open source field.  Something didn't set well with me this time around that perhaps didn't perturb me ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/10/25/my-reflections-on-fsoss/ I think it can be laid to rest any mythology we made have had about the superiority of the Canadian political process to the Americans. We're now just like the Americans in the degree to which only a scant majority are worthy of the democracy they're given. While I could be ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/10/15/42-of-canadians-are-assholes/ Thomas Barnett and David Weinberger have a lot more in common than being things David Eaves introduced me to.  They both attack the notion of categorization. Categorization, to a cognitive scientist, is problematic. Roughly phrased it's the notion that the world is separated into groups in our cognition - there are ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/10/08/we-have-a-name-for-this/ I quit my job in the technology world not out of boredom or disinterest in what I was doing. I love working with software, developing applications people find useful and bringing value to customers or community members through the products I produce. What I took issue with was my skills ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/09/28/technology-and-global-prosperity-harder-than-it-looks/ Charles Darwin taught us that not all change is good. In this case not all biological change is good. Genetic mutations occur, those that increase the chances of the mutant's survival are called adaptations - everything else is a zoological curiosity, or in the case of humanity, a disorder or ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/09/23/prehistoric-histrionics/ I miss you Daniel. http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/09/22/117/ What I found profoundly disgusting about the electoral process in Canada, and it seems to have become acceptable - is the belief on either/any side that the opposition does not first and foremost have the interests of Canada at heart. Such disrespect is juvenile and intellectually stunted and it needs to ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/09/19/disagreement-as-duplicity/ The web, social networks and the like are taking an unprecedented role in the current elections. Obama's campaign was made in part by the massively successful online initiative his team generated. Marc Gendron, and others like him have made great strides in integrating the Liberal party with contemporary media. However, using ... http://jeremyvernon.com/2008/09/12/wheres-technology-in-this-election/