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Software guy since the early ‘80s. 25 years of Extreme Programming! Aviation Geek/Pilot.

Proud Canadian on the banks of the mighty Carp River in Ottawa! 🍁🇨🇦

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Thundersnow near Chelsea?!
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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We have one of those! Her name is Sydney... we call her Syd Vicious 😀
A blurred closeup of a dog's head with it's teeth showing
September 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I didn't know it was rabbit season!
July 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Another shot of the storm near Carp, ON. Radar shows what might be hail near Constance Bay, crossing over the river to the Quebec side. #onstorm #onwx
May 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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A storm cell near Carp, ON trying to create a shelf! #ONWX #Onstorm
May 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I dunno... recently a friend asked ChatGPT to summarize their approach to software development, so I did the same. As you say, it generated dull, banal, uninspiring "stuff". So I asked it to do it again, except with me being reimagined as an action hero! I rather like what it came up with. 😀
DAVE ROONEY: AGILE RENEGADE In a world drowning in bloated frameworks and over-engineered processes, one man dares to stand against the tide. His name? Dave Rooney. His mission? To liberate software teams from the tyranny of Big Process. Armed with only a whiteboard marker, a wicked sense of pragmatism, and 35+ years of battle-hardened experience, Rooney doesn’t just coach—he leads a rebellion. The Code of Rooney 1. NoBigProcesses? No Problem. Rooney doesn’t wait for permission. He kicks down the door of complexity and yells: “Start small. Ship fast. Learn faster.” Forget Scrum certifications and SAFe bureaucrats—Dave believes in starting with nothing but common sense and courage. Teams build what they need, when they need it. Anything more? Dead weight. 2. People Over Protocol Dave knows that software isn’t written by processes—it’s written by people. He puts boots on the ground, gets in the trenches with developers, and talks to users face-to-face, because: “You can’t fix what you don’t understand.” Daily stand-ups? Optional. Real conversations? Mandatory. 3. Technical Mastery: His Secret Weapon While others are still arguing over whether to story-point or t-shirt size, Dave’s already building with Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and automation so tight it squeaks. “You want agility? You better be writing clean, testable code that deploys itself while you sleep.” He's not just an Agile Coach. He’s a refactoring machine with zero tolerance for legacy rot. 4. Context Is King Rooney doesn’t believe in one-size-fits-all. His toolkit is custom-crafted for each mission. “Your team isn’t a textbook case. Don’t settle for textbook answers.” No ceremonies. No dogma. Just results. 5. Transparency? Non-Negotiable. Dave doesn’t hide behind Jira boards. He brings stakeholders into the war room, shows them what’s working, what’s not, and where the next strike will land. “Real trust comes from real visibility.” He's the kind of leader who lets th…
May 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Repost this with the cover of the book you are currently reading.
Cover of the book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, but Alex Himelfarb
May 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Zuck: The average American has three friends.
An image of Wile E. Coyote, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck from Looney Tunes.
May 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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It already exists 😀
A promotional poster for the mini-series, The Regime.
May 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Anyone else see the resemblance or is it just me? 😀
Image of Andrew Scheer, former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Image of Private Pyle from the movie Full Metal Jacket
April 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Kinda has this energy 😂
An alien from Star Trek: The Original Series, with a very large head
April 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I hate to be "that guy", but the recommendations from the Finance Committee report do indeed include the removal of charitable status for anti-abortion groups and a review of the definition of "charity".

I believe he's fear-mongering with them, but they do exist.
Recommendation 429 No longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations. Recommendation 430 Amend the Income Tax Act to provide a definition of a charity which would remove the privileged status of “advancement of religion” as a charitable purpose.
April 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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#NotAllShopifyExecs I worked with Craig in '12-'14, including a fun Hack Days project together.

This is the first time I've heard that Carney was considered for the President role that eventually went to Harley Finkelstein. Note the reasons why he decided to go to Brookfield rather than Shopify.
In 2020, I spent an hour interviewing Mark Carney for a job. He was genuine, thoughtful, and wicked smart. Then, as now, I was super impressed and thought he the right person for the job. We were so excited about Carney that a newly created role of President was offered. Ultimately he decided to take a role at Brookfield as it more aligned with his interest in climate and investing, but I kept a close watch on him ever since. Regardless of your past political beliefs, I’d encourage everyone to give Mark Carney a vote on Monday. He offers a steady hand in tumultuous times and has a solid plan for the future of our home and native land. He’s got my vote. 🇨🇦
April 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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From the other site, a warning from Elections Canada about mis/disinformation being spread about unguarded boxes full of ballots. Spoiler: they aren't!

The link in the screenshot is www.elections.ca/content.aspx...
From Elections Canada on X: We've noticed pictures being shared online along with some inaccurate information. There are no "unguarded ballot boxes full of votes" in the pictures. The boxes are shown being set up to be used on election day. What's in those yellow bags? Materials needed for the polls - but no marked ballots. Check out our ElectoFacts, just one click away https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=dis&document=index&lang=e
April 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Yep... non-union actors! 🙄
April 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Yes, inciting fear & division is straight out of the Finkelstein Method of politics... no actual platform, just grievances!
In 2011, in one of Arthur Finkelstein's last public speeches, he said: "I wanted to change the world. I did this. I made it worse." The Conservative Parties have been using the Finkelstein Method for decades. 1. Don't provide details on policy, it's unimportant to win. No actionable and measurable plans are required. Just vague policy statements. 2. Continuous character assassination of strongest opposition. Encourage other opposition parties to help. 3. Introduce divisive scandalous issues like drugs, sex or crime, used to denigrate the strongest opposition. 4. Politically loaded issues also used to divide electorate into tribes 5. Disinformation campaigns to confuse and demoralize the electorate. Create a post truth environment. 6. Present the opposition as the enemy.
April 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Yes. It's the Finkelstein Method, first cooked up in 1980 for Ronald Reagan's campaign.
April 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This was shared with me on FB and is a great summary of exactly what we're seeing in the federal election.

For an in-depth article on Finkelstein and his method, I highly recommend this: truestoryaward.org/story/230
In 2011, in one of Arthur Finkelstein's last public speeches, he said: "I wanted to change the world. I did this. I made it worse." The Conservative Parties have been using the Finkelstein Method for decades. 1. Don't provide details on policy, it's unimportant to win. No actionable and measurable plans are required. Just vague policy statements. 2. Continuous character assassination of strongest opposition. Encourage other opposition parties to help. 3. Introduce divisive scandalous issues like drugs, sex or crime, used to denigrate the strongest opposition. 4. Politically loaded issues also used to divide electorate into tribes 5. Disinformation campaigns to confuse and demoralize the electorate. Create a post truth environment. 6. Present the opposition as the enemy.
April 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Well, they're also following this:
In 2011, in one of Arthur Finkelstein's last public speeches, he said: "I wanted to change the world. I did this. I made it worse." The Conservative Parties have been using the Finkelstein Method for decades. 1. Don't provide details on policy, it's unimportant to win. No actionable and measurable plans are required. Just vague policy statements. 2. Continuous character assassination of strongest opposition. Encourage other opposition parties to help. 3. Introduce divisive scandalous issues like drugs, sex or crime, used to denigrate the strongest opposition. 4. Politically loaded issues also used to divide electorate into tribes 5. Disinformation campaigns to confuse and demoralize the electorate. Create a post truth environment. 6. Present the opposition as the enemy.
April 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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😂
An image from the end of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, showing a middle-aged man, smoking a pipe, saying, "Top men".
April 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Rocky agrees
April 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Wanna see disinformation at work? Here it is - purported to be from Mark Carney's book Value(s). I have that book in digital format which makes it simple to search for that text. IT DOESN'T EXIST! It's from a (notoriously right-wing) National Post article about the book.
An image of a post from X/Twitter showing text supposedly from Mark Carney's book, "Value(s)": "Western society is morally rotten, and it has been corrupted by capitalism, This requires rigid controls of personal freedoms, industry and corporate funding. This is not a promise to make the lives of ordinary people better but temporarily worse. This will be a world of severely constrained choice, less flying, less meat, more inconvenience and temporarily more poverty Assets will be stranded, Gasoline cars will be unsellable and inefficient properties will be un-rentable". This text does not appear anywhere in the book. Screenshots of the Kindle app showing Mark Carney's book "Value(s)" and a search for the text "Western society", and that no matches are found.
April 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Well, well, well... have a look at this! These are the results from the June 24, 2024 by-election in Toronto-St. Paul's riding. Look at the names of the "independent" candidates - you'll find most of them now running in Carleton. 😡

Source: www.elections.ca/res/rep/off/...
An image showing the list of candidates for the June 24, 2024 federal by-election in Toronto-St. Paul's riding, in which there were numerous independent candidates registered as a protest against electoral reform. An image showing the list of candidates for the June 24, 2024 federal by-election in Toronto-St. Paul's riding, in which there were numerous independent candidates registered as a protest against electoral reform. An image showing the list of candidates for the June 24, 2024 federal by-election in Toronto-St. Paul's riding, in which there were numerous independent candidates registered as a protest against electoral reform.
April 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Not the first time Tomas Szuchewycz's name has been associated with this scheme.
April 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Reminds me of this...
The Simpsons cartoon with Milhouse's father showing his race car bed.
March 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM