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New blog coming soon

29 October 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, technology
Update: new blog has been started here: www.ianchadwick.com/blog.

I've been tinkering with Wordpress as a new blog platform for the past week, trying out its features and layout options. very nice. Flexible, powerful and a lot more social media strength than my current package. I have watched...

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Idiot lights on the highway

22 October 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in What I'm reading now, Social values, technology
Drove to Thornbury and back last night: a beautiful, clear fall night, dry and cool. A lot of traffic was on the road along Highway 26, many of them with their idiot lights* angrily blazing at oncoming traffic.

For those who might not be familiar with the changing nature of North American slang, or perhaps...

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Tags: empathy, manners, driving, civility, idiots 3 Comments


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Latest blog for Huff Post

12 October 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Pointless legislation, Provincial folly, Municipal governance
I'm blogging sporadically for the Huffington Post these days. So far all about municipal issues. Roughly once a week. Here's my latest effort:
www.huffingtonpost.ca/ian-chadwick/municipal-bonusing_b_999666.html
You can link from there to my previous posts as...

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Human rights gone awry

09 October 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Politics outside Canada, Pointless legislation, Social values
A lot of news stories I read while in England used the term "human rights" to describe some failure of the powers to be to come to terms with the demands of the disputants - or their perceived "rights." But most of the stories weren't about human rights at all, but rather about personal choices, lifestyles and fashion....

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Tags: news, human rights, media 4 Comments


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Jesse James, myth-making and pop culture

10 September 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in What I'm reading now, Book & film reviews, Social values
In the 2007 movie, The Assassination of Jesse James, we get to see a nascent American pop culture in a collision between its pop star (James) and a displaced fan (Ford), in an episode eerily similar to the fatal collision of John Lennon and Mark David Chapman. The difference, aside from the century between events, is that, for a while anyway, Ford...

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Updated software for blog

27 August 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in technology, What I'm reading now
Just a quick note: the blog software was updated yesterday. The display is a little different and it has a few new features. Invision's blogging package is not as good as that offered by other companies like Wordpress, but I stick to it because I don't believe I can port the contents from this package to another. I might start a new blog one day...

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A reflection on AMO's 2011 convention

25 August 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in What I'm reading now, Provincial folly, Collingwood's municipal m...
Spent most of this week at the annual AMO (Association of Municipalities of Ontario) convention. This year it was held in London, ON, and around 2,600 municipal politicians and staff from across the province attended. As always, it's a combination of information, networking, schmoozing, politics, workshops and ideas. I've always enjoyed...

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Tags: Collingwood, AMO, convention 0 Comments


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Myth, storytelling and modern writing

25 July 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in What I'm reading now, art, culture and reviews, Book & film reviews, Personal reminisence, Language use and abuse, Social values
Back in 1949, Joseph Campbell, a follower of Carl Jung, wrote a book called The Hero With a Thousand Faces. It traced the story of the 'hero's journey' through the world's mythology, showing how every major tale, regardless of culture, shared common elements and archetypes. It detailled 17 quintessential steps along the mythic...

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Tags: literature, novel, writing, mythology 1 Comments


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Vintage ukulele music site online

31 May 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles, art, culture and reviews
Finally finished my site for vintage ukulele music, a place where I can write a bit about the music, composers and performers from the 1920s and 30s. And it's a place where I can show off (and sell) my collection of song sheets and song books scanned to PDF. I have developed a real passion for the music of this era since I started playing the...

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The end of the world, a little earlier than expected...

13 May 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Spirituality and religion, Social values
Apparently the world will end on October 21, 2011. That's exactly five months after the "rapture", which takes place this month on May 21, when, the site says, Jesus will arrive for his third official visit to this planet.* Judgment Day, apparently, is only a week away. I thought I had at least until December, 2012 to get the...

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Tags: religion, apocalypse, eschatology, rapture 8 Comments



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