Month: January 2008

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The Anchorage city police have had enough of people being bad neighbours, and have started billing them for their ignorance. Some problem homes in Anchorage are getting 90 or more calls by police a year, according to Anchorage police Sgt. Denny Allen. After the 8th callout in a year,...

Getting off the usual tourist route seems to be less common each year, so I really enjoying hearing from people who are doing it. In the last couple of days, I received 2 emails that point to images I’d like you to see. First, “SueT”, a frequent poster on...

Feeding birds through the winter was one of the things I loved about the Carcross cabin. On a particularly cold day I’d have several dozen birds feeding at once, on a platform feeder and on the ground. As hard as I tried, I was never able to attract more...

There are lots of methods of using technology to keep kids safe, from very visible monitors of various kinds to the “secret” ones such as software that lets you find out what your kid (or spouse) is doing online. GPS fleet tracking has been around for a few years...

Some of you may be like me – when you’re downtown you’re focussed on projects and probably miss the details around you (hopefully not details like red lights or icy roads, but some people in Whitehorse are missing even those really important details lately). One of the details I’d...

I’ve heard that hoar frost on power lines can cause power outages, but never paid much attention to whether or not it’s true. Since we moved to Mary Lake, though, we get split-second outages at least once a day, so this morning it was time to check out what...

With 4 properties to manage now, there’s always something to do – if I had a “real job we’d be in trouble. This morning I was up to Carcross to clean the snow off the cabin roof for the first time this winter. While local snow enthusiasts might be...

I love vintage posters, and was surfing this morning to see what’s out there. The answer, not surprsingly, is “almost anything you can imagine”. One shop in particular was fun – I found these 2 posters at Mountain Chalet. Okay, the boarding one isn’t vintage, but it would still...

A corporate/social power struggle has recently reached a unique zenith in the States. It could be called a battle between conservatives and radicals, and it’s led by Burton, makers of a line of snowboards and related equipment, including the Vapor, called by many the best snowboard in the world....