Month: October 2007

Getting noticed online

Many of you have blogs or Web sites for commercial or personal reasons. All of you in that part of the online world know that the biggest challenge in having an online presence is getting noticed so that it’s worth your time and/or money to keep it “live.” Sometimes...
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Justice & the Law – not the same thing at all

I expect that almost all of you remember when, on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska’s spectacular Prince William Sound. Many of you probably don’t know that the court case against Exxon is still going on. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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Executive home with rental suite For Sale

Executive home for sale in Whitehorse, Yukon This home is located in the upscale neighbourhood of Granger, high on the hill above Whitehorse. During the short drive downtown, you are faced with wonderful views of the Big Salmon Mountain Range. A large grocery store is 6 blocks away, downtown...
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“I am very embarrassed to live in the Yukon”

So says Terry Cumming in his rant against popular Yukon News columnist Doug Bell at [link removed]. Don’t let the door hit you on the way Outside (where you obviously belong), Terry. More details are in the previous post, “Sled dog advocacy.”...
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Sled dog advocacy?

Those of you in Whitehorse may have seen the posters put up by Terry Cumming opposing the Yukon Quest in particular and mushing in general due to what Terry claims is the cruelty of the sport. I know Terry well, and have just ignored his nonsense up until today....
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Historic Venus Mine buildings washed away

This morning, I again awoke to fairly heavy snow falling. That makes yesterday’s sunshine even more special – it prompted another trip to Skagway, and it turned out to be a superb day. The light was spectacular, and there were enough clouds to provide a lot of drama through...
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Alaska Highway – “We want speed, not character!”

Last Saturday (the 6th), Cathy and I loaded the dogs into the Outback and headed out to +D-Bay” for lunch (it’s offically Destruction Bay, but nobody around here uses that name). The weather wasn’t particular nice and it might seem a little odd to drive 170 miles to have...
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Easy to amuse day

Get your name on a NASCAR with Fan1st.com! Like most of you, I see a LOT of ads over the course of the average week. Some are creative (the Dove aging series), some are cute (”Mommy, what does ’spoiled’ mean?”), some are stupid (the guy acting like a cat)...
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Think sunshine!

It’s a sunshine day 🙂 . I went for a drive in the bit of sunshine we had this morning, and then I started surfing warm places. Alaska Airlines always has good deals to warm places this time of year, so I ended up there. I couldn’t find a...
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Blogging North

Now that outdoors isn’t a particularly pleasant place to be (for a while until this wet white goes away), I’m getting some work done (actually I’m as confused as ever about where the line between work and fun is 🙂 ). One of the things that got started today...
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