Author Archives: CKirkby

I need to hire a tech person

Posted on 2024-06-05 by CKirkby

I need to hire a tech person to help with this website. I tried to do a general web search but the results were corporate and discouraging. Continue reading →

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Me and the Supreme Court

Posted on 2024-06-01 by CKirkby

I’ve been thinking about the Supreme Court a lot lately. Well, and also since I was a kid. Continue reading →

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Failure to user test

Posted on 2024-05-27 by CKirkby

One of my recurring gripes is failure to user test. It makes life unnecessarily bad because it is entirely avoidable. Continue reading →

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Injustice against white men

Posted on 2024-05-22 by CKirkby

There’s a popular article in La Presse today about a white man who is furious that 100% of jobs are not available to him like they were to his white man ancestors. Continue reading →

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Voices against bad policy

Posted on 2024-05-16 by CKirkby

It’s time for an update on the federal government’s garbage 3-day-in-office policy, in respect of which I remain an opinionated spectator. I had volunteered to help my former union but the only response I got was the general mailbox advising they had forwarded my message to the President’s office. This was unhelpful since my original email had already cc’ed the President’s office. Continue reading →

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Kids these days

Posted on 2024-05-14 by CKirkby

I sometimes think about what I’d be like if I were a kid now instead of decades ago. I’ve been trying to get people in power to listen since I was 7 years old. My first, most instinctive medium was … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on fighting the new federal in-office policy

Posted on 2024-05-06 by CKirkby

These pointless obligations have to come from the time contractually paid for by the employer, not from the employee’s personal time. Employers are not entitled to conscript employees’ non-paid time for the purpose of justifying expensive real estate and selling sandwiches. Continue reading →

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Tilt

Posted on 2024-05-01 by CKirkby

We are not always at our best, gathering an appropriate amount of information and making calm long-term decisions. Continue reading →

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Poverty tax fund idea

Posted on 2024-04-27 by CKirkby

You know what, I’ll tell the internet about a project I want to be working on: a revolving pot of money people can borrow from for things like buying in bulk and avoiding “insufficient funds” charges. A very simple ledger. … Continue reading →

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July comes before October

Posted on 2024-04-25 by CKirkby

I would bet there’s racism going on here too, but this sentence made me think of all the times I had to explain something comparable to “July comes before October” to a government department and it’d still take them years to agree with me. Continue reading →

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