gone
I’m in mexico. or will be tomorrow ’till x-mas in toronto then back to mtl for NY.
I attended this in ottawa yesterday - Canadian Study of Parliament Group’s annual conference “Parliament, Technology and Citizens” (pdf). It was mostly a beginner’s level thing, with a good/great talk by Darin Barney from Mcgill in the middle. I’m looking forward to speaking with him in the new year. I received some FUD when I asked my second question about getting some XML from Parliament instead of having Cory have to screenscrape. It pissed me off to hear the “we don’t have the resources to keep up” at the same time as “citizens aren’t ready for un-packaged information” thing. grr. Hiding behind PDF-ing in 2007 is not what I respect from my legislature. Having a quick chat / debrief after with Liss Jeffery was helpful.
Anyways. Have a good rest of the month. I’m going to go and be_offline (to think that I resented being offline when I was in Ouga) ;-) and hopefully stumble onto some perspective.
There’s a good quote about traveling allowing us to learn the poverty of our culture (exaggeration). and it reminds me of another similar quote I heard that I have since shared with a few friends.
later.