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Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
 
                                      I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
                                                                                                                                                    – Jonathan Swift 
In a report or two ago I lamented the sad coincidence between the compliance of boards in passing calamitous budgets and the assertion by our Minister this was an [...]

 
                                                           Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
  Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
                                                                                    - Henry David Thoreau 
In the last two weeks on three separate evenings, we have had 1st reading of the cutback budget [...]

Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
Tonight something rather quiet but significant happened. Very few people in the room would be aware and why would they? Sometimes you pass a policy or a revised policy and it all seems somewhat pedestrian. As was the 2nd and 3rd reading of our fully reworked Disposal of Land [...]

We had our monthly CAPE meeting at my place last night(May 25 2009) starting at 5 pm -well a few minutes after- we had to chat and fuss over the cats. We had 7 people there and those present gave new meaning to the term ‘quality over quantity’.
We acknowledged that the pressures this year that [...]

Principiis obsta…Finem respice
Resist the beginning… Consider the end
 
 
 
 

This report is about the wonderful world of math. The comforting structured certainty of numbers and the capriciousness with which they are confounded and overturned.

I never enjoyed math in school because I found it confining as well as being too much damn work. If I had known then [...]