Music – the challenge of technological advances
I heard on CBC Radio yesterday that Caribou Records in Whitehorse is in deep trouble due to the popularity of downloading music. There’s no silver lining to the story – I’m sorry to see a valuable part of the vibrant Yukon music scene hurting, perhaps in a terminal way....
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Whitehorse visited on a flight around the world
I had just started down the Alaska Highway to Carcross yesterday afternoon when I got thoroughly distracted by an unsual bird. Descending out of the ragged clouds was a large aircraft with a paint scheme I’d never seen before. I pulled around and headed back to the airport at...
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The significance of domain names
Did any of you watch Dragon’s Den last night? If so, you saw just how significant a domain name can be when you’re promoting a Web site. The developers of UniversityParty.ca got turned down for financing largely because they don’t own UniversityParty.com (a company in New York owns it)....
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