Archive for March, 2007

Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please.

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Rogers just credited me back the $57.55 they charged me today for just over 1 MB of data on my phone:

I didn’t have a plan for data but, ouch.
I’m not going to judge Rogers for this, but, to quote my friends:

what a cash grab..

yikes

and:

holy x*#@

And I said to customer service:

I had already told you (in […]

Computer Systems Used by Canadian Immigration (FOSS and CAIPS)

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Two computer systems that people waiting to immigrate to Canada are affected by:
I found http://infosource.gc.ca/inst/imc/fed05_e.asp which says:
Thanks to Gwenna for mentioning this,
Field Operations Support System (FOSS)
Description: The FOSS database is a central repository of information on all persons who have been, may be or are wanted to be seen by Immigration staff. FOSS is […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 5. Text

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Text
Language, especially its permanent textual form, is a format that virtually every human has the ability to use and is undeniably powerful, emotive and expressive. Carefully selected, words can ring an air of stark truth and clarity, and can drive a deep understanding directly into the human subconscious. However to achieve the degree of expression […]

The Military believes in Edge Organizations. Your firm should believe in Enterprise 2.0.

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Since 2004, the terms Social Media, “Web 2.0″ and The Architecture of Participation, have been about getting the masses to provide full engagement, and are taking leaps and bounds as a dominant means to put publishing on the web into the hands of the common public.
Brought into an Enterprise context, its sister “Enterprise 2.0,” now […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 4. Natural conception of space

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

2.4 Natural conception of space
The extent of our experience thus dictates an arbitrary limit on the dimensionality that we understand. However, there is no such limit on the complexity of relationships between objects. It is these relationships that dictate the pattern of a system that we seek to comprehend, and it is these which we […]

Webcom Toronto 2007 - Interactive Communications and Web 2.0

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

I am delighted to announce, I’ll be a speaker at Webcom Toronto, Interactive Communications and Web 2.0 April 10th-12th, 2007.

For the First Time in Toronto…
Webcom is aimed at Communication Professionals, Intranet and Internet developers and managers, IT project managers, directors and vice-presidents.
Communications, Human Resources and IT departments in Public and Private sectors.
Over 40 World […]

Wikis – Making Sense out of a House of Shards (2004)

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Wikis - Making Sense out of a House of Shards(c) Martin@Cleaver.org2 December 2004
A wiki can be a posting board, knowledge base, project tracker, photo album, and discussion forum. It’s all of these, yet none alone does it justice. Even for the most experienced, a Wiki can be infuriatingly difficult to classify!
From a linguistic perspective, the […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 3. On Space

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

2.3On Space
The environment or “milieu” that we live in is partly composed of a space and as such, some of the earliest things that we need to describe during childhood exist in a spatial field. We become accustomed to understanding the spatial dimensions and become experienced at describing them. Survival, [MIM] claims, has become our […]

Last night at the Scottish Robbie Burns Society of Toronto

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

I had a great time (and many scotches) last night at the Robbie Burns Society of Toronto

Here’s a little video clip, typical of the singing and joking, taken with my Treo and uploaded to YouTube.

Canadian High Commission: Here’s your pictures back

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Quick update: it’s clear that the London office has started processing my visa application! They returned this yesterday…
My status on e-client is unchanged…