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Livejournal

From 2006-2008 I had a public-facing Livejournal account at http://pnijjar.livejournal.com . For seven years I procrastinated in migrating those posts here.

Livejournal was an embarrassing experiment. It cost me at least one friendship. It also taught me that enabling comments on blogs is a bad idea.

Speaking of which: this archive is lossy in the sense that I have not migrated the comments here. I thought about doing so (and I think it would have been possible if not straightforward) but I do not own the copyright to comments written by others. It is probably for the best. I link to the original entries in these posts if you really want to see comments.

Didn't this happen last year?
Composed September 25th, 2008

Rapid Transit Consultations
Composed January 16th, 2008

Stuck
Composed November 18th, 2007

29 Days Later
Composed November 8th, 2007

MMP 102: Why vote for MMP?
Composed October 8th, 2007

MMP 102: Things that will annoy you
Composed October 3rd, 2007

UW Debate
Composed October 3rd, 2007

Another step towards perdition
Composed September 30th, 2007

MMP 102: Are people happier under MMP?
Composed September 30th, 2007

Kitchener Centre Debate Fiasco
Composed September 28th, 2007

KPL Debate: Children First!
Composed September 27th, 2007

Canadianism has gone too far!
Composed September 25th, 2007

MMP 102: Glossary (aka Lazy Entry)
Composed September 25th, 2007

MMP 102: Contradictory Arguments
Composed September 23rd, 2007

Kitchener Centre Record Debate
Composed September 21st, 2007

Local Candidates Meetings
Composed September 20th, 2007

Becoming what we despise
Composed September 15th, 2007

MMP 102: What do List Members Do?
Composed September 7th, 2007

MMP 102: Party Hackery in Three Paragraphs
Composed September 1st, 2007

Freeshell woes
Composed August 28th, 2007

MMP 102: A Tired Rehashing of Identity Politics
Composed August 25th, 2007

MMP 102: Why Closed Lists?
Composed August 22nd, 2007

MMP 102: Party Life Cycles
Composed August 17th, 2007

Housing and a movie
Composed August 11th, 2007

Ambiguous web searches
Composed August 10th, 2007

MMP 102: False Dichotomies
Composed August 3rd, 2007

MMP 102: Effects of the 3% Threshold
Composed August 1st, 2007

MMP 102: No Confidence Votes and MMP
Composed July 22nd, 2007

MMP 102: Power Diffusion
Composed July 17th, 2007

MMP 102: Effects of the list seat ratio
Composed July 15th, 2007

MMP 102: MMP vs. Parallel Systems
Composed July 9th, 2007

MMP 102: Three Party Systems and Bob Rae's Government
Composed July 5th, 2007

MMP 102: Coalitions vs. Minority Governments
Composed July 3rd, 2007

Renters Rights and a Movie
Composed June 29th, 2007

Another unwise admission
Composed May 26th, 2007

Impostor syndrome doesn't apply to impostors
Composed May 25th, 2007

Sick
Composed May 24th, 2007

Two Requests
Composed May 24th, 2007

Rerun: blogs, forums, wikis
Composed May 21st, 2007

Traitor to the Cause
Composed May 10th, 2007

Broken engagement
Composed April 28th, 2007

I should pick lettuce for a living...
Composed April 27th, 2007

Traaaains
Composed April 17th, 2007

Human Peace Sign
Composed March 14th, 2007

Voting System Nitpickery
Composed February 17th, 2007

Life Lessons
Composed January 22nd, 2007

A few bloody notes
Composed January 19th, 2007

Shameful admission
Composed January 18th, 2007

Guelph Consultation
Composed January 17th, 2007

Diagnosis
Composed January 12th, 2007

Citizens' Assembly Public Consultation
Composed January 8th, 2007

Leslie Harpold
Composed December 30th, 2006

Smart Spam
Composed December 16th, 2006

Clothing by the Pound
Composed November 20th, 2006

How Democracy Works
Composed November 15th, 2006

Civic duty
Composed November 13th, 2006

Regional Council/Ward 2 Debate
Composed November 12th, 2006

Municipal Election Questionnaires
Composed November 11th, 2006

Another Ward 1/6 Debate
Composed November 8th, 2006

Bearded and Busted
Composed November 8th, 2006

Ward 1/Ward 6/Mayor Non-Incumbent Debate
Composed October 31st, 2006

Kitchener Mayoral Debate
Composed October 28th, 2006

Talks: James Loney, FVC, Drugs
Composed October 24th, 2006

LJ etiquette
Composed June 25th, 2006

My Review of An Inconvenient Truth
Composed June 24th, 2006

Dumbified GUI Bootscreens Considered Harmful
Composed June 22nd, 2006

How to stay unemployed forever
Composed June 22nd, 2006

An Inconvenient Get-together
Composed June 19th, 2006

Family
Composed June 17th, 2006

The INTPs Strike Back
Composed June 14th, 2006

There's a punchline in here somewhere
Composed June 12th, 2006

My life is an Alanis Morrissette song
Composed June 9th, 2006

Uncharitable
Composed June 5th, 2006

Wired Myopia
Composed June 1st, 2006

Why I am trying to move to Cleveland
Composed May 30th, 2006

This post wants to be free
Composed May 23rd, 2006

LaTeX and open source
Composed May 20th, 2006

The problem with Monster
Composed May 18th, 2006

Loose ends
Composed May 11th, 2006

Milking the system
Composed May 5th, 2006

Doctors and Engineers
Composed April 30th, 2006

Two Tier Health Care
Composed April 27th, 2006

Unfair language
Composed April 25th, 2006

In defence of FPTP
Composed April 22nd, 2006

Bugs
Composed April 21st, 2006

Per capita
Composed April 19th, 2006

Faith
Composed April 18th, 2006

Special occasion
Composed April 18th, 2006

User Interfaces are Hard: Open With...
Composed April 14th, 2006

Voting and pi
Composed April 14th, 2006

Disclaimers
Composed April 12th, 2006

My new career
Composed April 10th, 2006

Zero sum life
Composed April 9th, 2006

FedS bus vs. Greyhound brouhaha
Composed April 6th, 2006

How much should tuition cost?
Composed April 5th, 2006

The second step is admitting the problem is beyond your control
Composed April 4th, 2006

April Foolish
Composed April 3rd, 2006

Two opposites
Composed April 1st, 2006

McSandwiches
Composed March 30th, 2006

Ontario Electoral Reform: Off to the races
Composed March 28th, 2006

Dr. Atkins hates me
Composed March 25th, 2006

Distractors
Composed March 24th, 2006

Green energy subsidies?!
Composed March 22nd, 2006

Stupid Questions
Composed March 22nd, 2006

Keys
Composed March 17th, 2006

Statistical Rationalization (aka Patterns in My Life)
Composed March 7th, 2006

Possums
Composed March 3rd, 2006

Unhappy anniversary
Composed March 3rd, 2006

Mr Goudas marketing wins again
Composed March 2nd, 2006

Voulez-vous beaucoup d'argent?
Composed March 1st, 2006

Hippo-crit
Composed February 28th, 2006

Nuclear Hippie Paranoia
Composed February 27th, 2006

Karma overload
Composed February 25th, 2006

Living on the Dole
Composed February 24th, 2006

I AM NOT A SPAMBOT
Composed February 17th, 2006