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En vacances? Not really

by Bill on August 27, 2010

The other day I came upon some writing I did quite a while ago. By “a while” I mean fifteen to twenty years ago. Amid all that writing I found a series of stories I wrote. I had put them together under a tentative title, Rather Short Stories for Rather Small People. Other than being [...]

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St. Andrews road trip

by Bill on August 9, 2009

Yesterday I did a road trip down the highway and a bit to the right (west) along the Fundy coast to St. Andrews, New Brunswick. (Or, as some like to say, St. Andrews By-The-Sea … “It’s Life, Only Better.”) Yes, it’s very beautiful there and the weather yesterday was about as good as you could [...]

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Telegraph-Journal and credibility

by Bill on July 28, 2009

A few days ago I posted You are what you post. While I had something completely different in mind, that same headline is even more relevant to today with the Telegraph-Journal, the primary newspaper in Saint John, New Brunswick. Today they printed and posted an apology to Canada’s Prime Minister and two of it’s reporters [...]

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Another Facebook flaw?

by Bill on July 20, 2009

I’ve been tearing my hair out with frustration because of a Facebook problem. It’s one that, as I think about it, indicates what I think is a big flaw in their system – one compounded by their indifferent support. I’ve set up a pretty barebones web site for a small business in Saint John, New [...]

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Habits and beer and going local

by Bill on July 13, 2009

I’m a creature of habit. Anyone who knows me knows this, to their great exasperation. But every now and then, to keep people on their toes, I change my habits. As people who know me also know, I like beer and the beer I’ve been drinking for ages is Stella Artois. Don’t ask me why. [...]

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Talking amongst ourselves in New Brunswick

by Bill on April 18, 2009

I recently used Facebook to do a very informal survey. I wanted to get outsider perceptions so I asked of friends and family outside the province, “What do you think of when you think New Brunswick?” The answer was essentially this: “We don’t think of New Brunswick.” Words and phrases like forgotten, vague, don’t know [...]

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