Dave Till's web site

Welcome to my vanity website and/or personal retirement project! Last updated August 6 2026.

Some stuff you might enjoy or find useful:

• Collages from issues of LIFE magazine.
• One Hit Wonders: artists that charted exactly once on radio station CHUM's charts between 1957 and 1986. Now at 342 entries.
• 70s God Rock: a number of songs in the late 1960s and 1970s had God or religion as their theme. I'll see how many of them I can remember.
• Mashups created using Audacity (open-source music editing software).
  • America Shook Me - Summer 2025
  • Beatles October 2025
• People In The News: people who appeared in Toronto newspapers in times past. Some of these were taken from my Toronto Old News blog of newspaper articles, which I discontinued in November 2023. As of this writing, there are over 725 entries.
• My running blog: what it's been like to take up running in late middle age. (I started running again from scratch in April 2026 and reached 5K in June, though I go very slowly.)
• My Perl book from the 1990s.
• The 9 a.m. Project: A bunch of workday mornings.
• My old blog.
• My Flickr page (including photos of Toronto ghost signs).
• If you like, you can follow me on Bluesky.
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town: a collection of Eaton's Santa Claus Parade ads from the Toronto Daily Star.
• Some interesting old documents that I have found.
• My Toronto photos.
• Some writing of mine from the 1990s retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• Other random writing about this and that.
• If you have any comments on or corrections to anything I've written here, you can email me.

Note: while the quality of my writing is debatable and probably varies, I wrote it all myself. No AI tools were used to generate it.