Okay, it has been several years since I last updated my Web site. I have been to Maryland, Arizona, and now back in New Mexico. Here it is November of 2003 and I am currently back working for the newly renamed Department of Cultural Affairs where I am the IT Manager at the State Library. I also have release a new software program called Visitmaker which is being distributed through AltaMira Press.

April 18, 1999. Some new photos of life on the east coast can be seen at http://home.earthlink.net/~jchadwick/eastcoast1.html. Also, a link to a page of links that are important to me, which should make this page easier and faster to load.

Update on November 20, 1998! On the day after my 43rd birthday I received, in writing, a formal offer to work with the Institute for Learning Innovation in Annapolis, MD. I will be a research associate specializing in research on how people learn using the Web. My first day will be February 1, 1999. This will allow me to get through the holiday season before I have to worry too much about moving 2000 miles across country.

Update on May 7, 1998! I successfully defended my dissertation on April 20, 1998 and on May 7, 1998 the committee signed off on all the changes. I am now officially Dr. John Chadwick. John to my friends, Dr. Chadwick to those who annoy me . Thanks to all my wonderful friends who were so supportive during the long haul and home stretch of getting this degree. I have a photo page of graduation day.

This is the end of the update section. Now for the older, yet still important stuff.

Well, I finally got bored of the old design and, in a futile effort to avoid the end of the semester crunch, I am redoing my personal web page during my lunch hour. This page really does look best with a web browser that supports tables. Perhaps someday I will get really motivated and put some JAVA script in my personal page. Naahhhhh!!!! So, today's date is December 12, 1996, although I have made some updates to this page since then, the latest being October 27, 1997. Hope you like the new look. If not, then too bad.

So many -- okay, some -- people -- ALRIGHT ALREADY, a few-- have asked to know more about me than where I work and what I do. For those who don't know, I was system analyst and Internet barbarian for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, NM. I helped build the site and maintain the server through 1998. This was and still is a true collaborative effort -- Educational Technology at it's best! Check it out!

I am single and live with a new cat in my life named Bucky Too. Bucky Too was adopted from the Albuquerque Cat Action Team. My previous cat, Bill, was with me for more than 18 years before he got too sick to keep going. Bill has his own web page and the link is below. I am learning how to use a digital camera and will have some pics of Bucky Too online soon.

I am a devout agnostic and active Unitarian-Universalist, a church home that lets me doubt and question as much as I want. Unitarianism in the U.S. has a glorious history of heresy rooted in liberal Christianity. As you can probably tell from the links below I have a deep interest in free speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom from religion, unusual places and ways to learn, and really bizarre musical tastes. I have absolutely no patience for "Creationists" who insist on calling creationism science without understanding the nature of science. Science does not provide proof and eliminate doubt. It DOES provide a way to make observations and test those observations and build theories that fit the data collected. As a social scientist by training and schooling I am concerned about the sloppy methods that often are used to gain an understanding of the complex nature of human behavior.

I have had the opportunity to attend some wonderful UU churches in the past few years, in places such as Columbia, MD, Washington, DC, and Chandler, AZ.

Of course, I do have friends who are not afraid to be associated with me and my eclectic tastes. You can look here for a partial listing of home pages of friends from work, school, and church.

I am very excited because I have discovered long lost family on the Internet. My sister has been trying to do some Genealogical Research into the family history in Darke County, Ohio. I found the Darke County Genealogical Page on the Internet. I have found family I only vaguely knew I had. It is great that in the electronic age we can reconnect with family that has been separated by years and miles. Another good look at where I fit in can be seen at another Darke County Page, www.calweb.com/~wally/daco.htm

The rest of my favorite links has been move to a page approporiately named links.html.

For spambot harvesters, lots of juicy e-mail addresses for spammers only! Oh, that's right, they want to be called internet marketers. A crook by any other name is still a crook!