My name is Jim Bennett. This site contains a blog, some marketing, some references, and a trace of charity. You are invited to comment on anything anywhere. Comments are moderated (see “Rules, Sort of”) before they appear on the site.

The Page Heading Images
These are all images taken by me with a Panasonic GH1 camera. The lizard is in Panama City, the bluebirds (not sure what they really are) are in the outdoor restaurant area of Gamboa nature reserve (Panama), the camels are in the Sahara desert in Morocco, the bizarre figurines from a storefront in I think Spain, the models/statues are in Galeries Lafayette (Paris), the butterfly at our shack (and it is a shack) on MacLean aka Black Lake, and the bizarre cement face is on a large farm-like property north of Huntsville.

The Blog
The blog will contain various kinds of entries. There are laws or sayings I’ve collected over an extensive business life, and dumb questions which I think are relevant to our city, country, and times, plus observations I think you could find interesting and provocative. Feel free to respond with your comments. I have also added a couple of just for fun entries, and a new Person of Interest category.

My Writing
I am a writer, mostly poetry, with some previous publishing successes. I have  put up a poetry collection on Amazon for the Kindle reader and PC/Mac and others.

A paperback version is available by clicking here.

Some free samples of other poems are available on the Samples page. Enjoy.

Hobbies and Interests
My interests include biology and religion. I started out with Shroedinger’s title question, What is Life and delved into biochemistry, biology, microscopy. Quantum effects became important so I sort-of understand that (badly). Social effects made themselves noticed, thus a study of Joseph Campbell and Bruce Feiler, on myths and religion. I have read the Koran in two different (English) translations, cover to cover. I do not claim to understand it, but I have a fair idea of what it says. I think.
My own religious background is Christian, now highly diluted. Yet I volunteer at a Catholic charity, and load boxes and things onto shipping containers, two mornings a week. I’ve been doing this for years. I retired early, and can spare that much time for a good cause.
I have subscriptions to Scientific American, Popular Photography, and Nature (UK science/research magazine). My head does hurt sometimes when reading the last.
I keep tropical fish.
I am a photographer of some ability. I’ve done two weddings (swore never again after the first one, it’s work!) but prefer arty outdoor scenes and travel photos. And anything my wife tells me to shoot: sometimes I execute better than she, but just don’t see the opportunities she does. Uncredited images on this site are from my own camera.
I have degrees from University of Toronto. I worked in data processing for IBM and a large Canadian bank. I was once addressed as Mister Systems Architect by an IBM honcho of Finance Industry Marketing. I was fairly good at what I did. It was interesting and challenging.
One thing I learned from development projects is, the product belongs to the client and perhaps the company, but the results of the teamwork, including know-how and mutual respect, belong to the team.

Thus my interest in poetry. I’ve been in the team on earth for awhile and have come to many observations. Now I am finding ways, in this new and open digital world, of sharing those more widely with others.
I trust each one of you may have a chance to profit from, or recognize, or laugh with or at, or maybe yell at, and sometimes respond to, some of these entries. They were written for us, that is, for you.