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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 were. (If you’re impatient, just scroll to the end for the capper.) There was 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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=4202</guid>
		<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 success lies. To that I say, “Horseshit.” If everyone is leading, who is following? Who [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[charitable tax number]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=4181</guid>
		<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 of that flaw too. Most of us are. We want to get on to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Layton and an end to dogma</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2011/08/23/jack-layton/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2011/08/23/jack-layton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aspirations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[commiseration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community goals]]></category>
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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 asking why he should be remembered. I think there is a very specific reason. He [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[riot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[smartphones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stanley cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3910</guid>
		<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. Not five minutes after talking with some friends about security on the Internet, a number [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Burbles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[boor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writelife.net/?p=3867</guid>
		<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 was something wrong with my butt. It was remarkably itchy. But what can you do? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with content</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/12/23/the-problem-with-content/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/12/23/the-problem-with-content/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[boardroom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rabble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writelife]]></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 them. I don’t want to read or watch content. A movie? Yes. A video? Yes. [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogmatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[easy answers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[world hunger]]></category>

		<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 megalomaniacs? No. We write headlines like these because the statistics tells us they work. Does [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odysseus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remembrance day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Story]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trojan war]]></category>
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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 recommend this link: Back From War, but Not Really Home I had never thought of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are stories?</title>
		<link>http://writelife.net/2010/11/01/what-are-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://writelife.net/2010/11/01/what-are-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Wren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manifesto]]></category>
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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 events telling One word is missing because it is implied. There is no purpose to [...]]]></description>
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