Goodness: Links Heather Haley, friend and neighbour, extends a conversation some of us were having on west coast music. Nice stories about the west coast punk scene of the 1980s and later. Another friend and neighbour, John Dowler: a photography site with questions. From Common Dreams, 12 things from the last decade that could save us Metafilter post on the ironically inimitable Harry Dubin. Franke James draws Canada’s problems with greenhouse gases. (via facebook friend Amy Robinson) Audio Frozen Silence, a new age/ambient project from Finland’s Matti Paalanen. Piano and guitar music for winter mornings. Tim Hart singing the Ploughboy …
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[Working today and yesterday with a group of indigenous political leaders on reducing Aboriginal child poverty in British Columbia. In a little strategy session today we were talking about the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, the fact that Canada has refused to ratify it, and how, with the world coming to play here next month during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, that this is a good opportunity to let the world know that a global agenda item remains unratified in this country. So here is is my letter to global visitors joining us for the Games…] A …
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If you are a user of OpenOffice on the Mac, like I am, you have probably noticed that in converting documents back and forth between .odt and .doc formats messes with your bullets. Instead of little dots, you get clapper boards, which are cute but not useful for a professional documents. Today, buried deep in a page discussing this bug, I found a very useful manual fix that has worked for me: “I’ve had success using the Font Replacement Table, located in the OpenOffice.org ->Fonts. Enable “Apply replacement table”, select “Symbol” in the lefthand FONT drop down, select “OpenSymbol” in …
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Happy New Year! Some random pickin’s from the feed: Psychology and Security Resource Page . Learn about FEELING afraid and FEELING safe. The Conferences that Work blog. Cool, even though it seems like he has reinvented Open Space. jack/zen blogs the 7 principles of improv.
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Good riddance to this decade. I hadn’t meant to make a post about the past ten years, but a comment from my friend Doug Germann, who is a lawyer by the way, prompted me to write a response that became a little manifesto for action in this next ten years. Here is Doug’s comment: Chris– The opposite of love is fear; conversely, the opposite of fear is love. Chris, you have named it well. We are in a cycle of fear–an attack is made, we become fearful, hunker down, do something however ineffectual. We could somehow accept that there is …