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		<title>Hazards of living in Alberta</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/09/26/hazards-of-living-in-alberta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lived in Alberta for roughly twenty years before moving to New Brunswick about five years ago. Over the last few days, I’ve discovered one of the hazards of having lived there for so long. You are never where you &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/09/26/hazards-of-living-in-alberta/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of the follower</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/09/11/followers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For what seems years now, I’m been hearing about leadership. I’ve been in conferences, read books and seen countless posts online about how you have to be a leader. Everyone on a team has to lead. It’s in leadership that &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/09/11/followers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Maintenance, our human flaw and a dreamed of plugin</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/26/maintenance-our-human-flaw-and-a-dreamed-of-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1085;&#1080; &#1085;&#1072; &#1089;&#1074;&#1077;&#1090;&#1094;&#1080; &#8220;Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.&#8221; &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut Today has driven home to me Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s quote regarding maintenance. He is right. I&#8217;m guilty &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/08/26/maintenance-our-human-flaw-and-a-dreamed-of-plugin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Layton and an end to dogma</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/23/jack-layton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party, passed away yesterday and there was a huge upswell of grief and commiseration expressed. In all the remembrances of the man and in all the accolades sent his way, it&#8217;s worth &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/08/23/jack-layton/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing is secure; no one is anonymous</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/06/18/nothing-is-secure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how sophisticated technology is, it always has one big hurtle it can&#8217;t overcome: us. How we use something &#8212; how we behave &#8212; will always condition technology, either by how it is designed or how it is used. &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/06/18/nothing-is-secure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dignity is an illusion</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/06/16/dignity-is-an-illusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than write yet again about stories, I thought I would tell a little story. This was actually written and posted about six years ago on another, now defunct blog. It is about the human condition &#8230; One day there &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2011/06/16/dignity-is-an-illusion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with content</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/23/the-problem-with-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Content has a problem and it is easily stated: I have no interest in it. I don’t believe many do and, of those who are interested in it, they aren’t interested in content but in what it can do for &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2010/12/23/the-problem-with-content/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why social media loves dogmatism</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/22/why-social-media-loves-dogmatism/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/11/22/why-social-media-loves-dogmatism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a day goes by where we don’t see tweets and post headlines telling us “you must” or “you need” and similar dogmatic injunctions. Is it because we like being told what to do? Is it because the authors are &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2010/11/22/why-social-media-loves-dogmatism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>War and remembrance and The Odyssey &#8212; repost</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/11/war-and-remembrance-and-the-odyssey-repost/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/11/11/war-and-remembrance-and-the-odyssey-repost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think a good argument could be made for The Odyssey being the most influential work in western literature. The story of Odysseus&#8217; return home from the Trojan War is certainly one of my favourite works. I&#8217;m posting this to &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2010/11/11/war-and-remembrance-and-the-odyssey-repost/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What are stories?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/01/what-are-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two words pop up in most dictionary definitions of the word story: people and events. Most of those definitions also include a word or phrase such as “the telling of,” or “the relating of.” So what we have is: people &#8230; <a href="http://writelife.net/2010/11/01/what-are-stories/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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