June 2005

Impressions – who exactly are you?

by Bill Wren on June 26, 2005

In the introduction to his novel Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut says something to the effect of, “You are what you pretend to be. So you better pretend to be something good.” I was thinking about this as I read Creating a Positive Professional Image (which I found through What Do People REALLY Think? on the [...]

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Everything is global except communication

by Bill Wren on June 25, 2005

One of the intriguing things about looking at blog statistics is, over time, you see what interests people. And, at least to some small degree, you can see who is interested in what posts. Of all the posts I’ve written, the one that keeps coming up is Language as a communication barrier, which I posted [...]

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Writing rituals – do you have one?

by Bill on June 19, 2005

I’m a great believer in rituals so it was with a good deal of interest that I read Writing Sprints: Winning the Race (Chip Scanlan on Poynter Online). In this instance, he is discussing rituals as they relate to work, specifically writing. Personally, I’ve quite a few rituals that get me through the day. But [...]

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Summer, flooding and … cellulite?

by Bill Wren on June 18, 2005

It has been raining all day here in Edmonton. In southern Alberta, it’s been raining like a sonofabitch for days and days and days.  Where a few years ago drought was an issue here, now it’s flooding. So it goes in Alberta. Meanwhile, I got a spam e-mail with the subject line, “Summer means no [...]

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For time travellers, ignorance is power

by Bill on June 18, 2005

Hmm. So if this bit of time travel business is accurate (New model ‘permits time travel’), can we then say the less you know, the better? Is ignorance power? Can you effect change as long as you don’t know anything about the thing you’re changing? "As long as I don’t know if Dad’s alive, I [...]

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