About John Sawyer and this writing BLOG

This is part of my personal site. While there are lots of other sites dealing with with my Information Technology career, my personal site deals with my community, political and recreational activities.

This BLOG started life as a standard WWW page, but I've transferred the stories here because it's easier to publish and the standard tools offer better facilities to get my stories read.

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What's Up

I'm involved in a number of community activities. The main one is:

• Work with other members of the Yarra Community Music Network to help develop health, happiness and harmony through music and singing
• I just finished a screen writing course with CAE
• I’ll soon get back to my writing group every second Monday (see http://www.yarracityu3a.org.au)

I continue:

• Community Choir on Tuesday nights (see http://yarracommunitymusic.net/Programs.aspx?item=BridgeTheGap)
• Walking on Tuesday & Thursday mornings See Finbar Groups
• Sing with Friday Lunch Chorus each week (see http://yarracommunitymusic.net/Programs.aspx?item=FridayLunch) 

What's with the icon?

A friend thought my  photo was a bit corporate.

So I changed to a close-up taken from a illustration I did of Friday Chorus in 2007

Some links

• Some of my photos and images
• Friday Lunch Photos @ flickr
• First Chapters New York Times books - The first chapters of recent books.
• My Techo's blog
• My Joke Site
• Occasional Images – some of my drawings and illustrations
• My favourite pastime
• Wilkinson My major client
• UNITY - The Big Song - Yarra Community Music Network – I helped make a video this year. See it on YouTube…

BOINC

I donate spare time on my computers to BOINC Australia, “a group of ordinary computer users with a strong interest in helping Scientific Research. By using the idle time on our computers we assist scientists in finding cures for cancer, influenza and other diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, search for extraTerrestrial intelligence and help with numerous other scientific projects.”

I don’t actually search for extraTerrestrial intelligence. It is often hard to find any here on earth.