From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Why success can make for lousy work

by Bill on January 24, 2009

This post is actually a re-post from March of 2005. But this subject came up recently. I thought, “Why write something that repeats what I wrote when I can just repeat what I wrote?” It makes sense in a strange way. Here it is: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.)There’s a fascinating book by [...]

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How intelligent are we in New Brunswick?

by Bill on January 23, 2009

As usual, I’m just asking questions because I really don’t know.  Both Fredericton and Moncton have been named to the top seven list of intelligent communities by the ICF (Intelligent Community Forum). It sounds great. It’s one of the reasons I moved to Fredericton two years ago. But while this is wonderful for Fredericton and [...]

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Words and voice and eloquence

by Bill on January 22, 2009

Here’s how I figure it: if any politician can get me to not only listen but be engaged with an 18 minute speech, there must be something to it as far as quality goes. That is to say, it must be pretty darned good. As I watched Barack Obama deliver his first speech as President [...]

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Names, writing and the Obama inauguration

by Bill on January 20, 2009

No one likes being left out so this is my Barack Obama post on the day of his inauguration as President of the United States. But what to write that hasn’t been written about already? At the risk of being slight, and on such a historic day, the writer in me is pleased with all [...]

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Social networks, tools, utility and noise

by Bill on January 15, 2009

There is some irony in this post about social tools, like Twitter, in that I’ll probably tweet this (is that the correct terminology?) and maybe even post it as a note on Facebook. This is about social tools and noise and it’s prompted by a blog post titled 20 days off from Twitter: A View [...]

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You can’t break wind online

by Bill on January 14, 2009

You can’t fart online. You can’t have strong body odour like you have after jogging or working out at the gym. Not online. Online, you can see pictures of my dog. Were I to make a video or an audio file, you might hear her bark. But you’ll never smell her dog scent or feel [...]

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Web content and snow: a relationship?

by Bill on January 14, 2009

I was shovelling snow today (again!) and realized that, without thinking, I was treating it like a web site, or web content. I was chunking it all out. The driveway, which is fairly long, curves around to the back of the house. In my head, I saw it as three distinction sections. The first third [...]

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