http://jeffaho.com Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:08:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Levi has mentioned more than once in the past few weeks that he thinks I'm becoming more and more conservative of late. I didn't think I have been but it is hard to be objective when judging yourself. A year or two ago I took the Political Compass test and ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/compass/ Yesterday was the first day of my 3A Mechatronics term, and it will be a contrast to the Political Science Minor term I just completed. It is the first time I haven't had a co-op term in between my school terms but it will be a good summer with everyone ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/house/ Still continuing with my policy of not registering for or posting on LJ, I do see a post by the CKMS Board Treasurer Selene MacLeod (Atmydiscretion?), AKA Synaesthetik (MySpace) and a new discussion spawning from it. Since she makes defamatory claims that the 'Yes' Committee and I broke referendum rules, ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/synaesthetik/ Over the past few weeks I was heavily involved in the CKMS referendum as the 'Yes' Committee Chair and tried to keep my comments as representing the committee. I would now like to express my personal opinions. I did not bring forward this motion to Council and found out about it ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/ckms-referendum/ This week my website's spam count passed 25000 spam comments. My first post was in July 2005, so about an average of 10000 spam posts a year. I can't imagine having to manually moderate all that spam, but luckily I use Akismet and it deals with the majority. I probably ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/spam/ I've been chipping away at some Rand books this term, though I've taken a one month break from Atlas Shrugged. I like the story, but it sure is long. I just needed a break. The one I'm reading now on my lunch breaks is The Virtue of Selfishness, a non-fiction collection ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/selfishness/ Despite elections races not officially starting for another 3 months, Facebook groups for potential Feds Exec have started to pop up. In order to fuel unsolicited speculation, I give you a list of potential Feds Exec candidates. President: Justin Williams - Current ES Councillor, Feds Director, Past FOC, and general socialist proselytizer, ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/feds2008/ Back when I used to be active in competitive debating I attended a lecture at LU on case construction. One of the concepts that I still recall is that of pairs of philosophical concepts which generally are opposites during debate. An example would be Justice vs. Mercy while the one ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/involuntary-admission/ Tomorrow is the Ontario General Election and Electoral Reform Referendum. I encourage you to get out and vote. I will be voting in the Oshawa riding because it's my current residence. I will be voting for Jerry Ouellette and against MMP. I've decided to endorse the Progressive Conservative candidate because in ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/election-eve/ Relative to other elections, people are fairly informed about the General election and the issues at play. Outside the group of politics crazed students at UW it has become quite clear that few people know that we have a much more important decision to be made, that of the referendum ... http://jeffaho.com/archives/what-referendum/