Category: Technology

I’m writing this post on February 22, 2023, but as it’s a presentation I gave on October 24, 2018, I’m back-dating to look like it was posted then. Sometimes I find files in places they shouldn’t be. I stumbled across this Powerpoint presentation a couple of days ago, and...

I always enjoy my time in Dawson Creek, and the more time I spend here, the more I like it. I never feel like I’ve seen all there is to see, and the people are consistently wonderful. Saturday, September 12th, day 4 of the trip, was our day to...

A couple of weeks ago, I happened to notice a comment on Yukon Energy’s Facebook page that they were going to do a tour of their power production plants (both hydroelectric and diesel) the following day, and I popped a note off to them to put me on the...

The past few days, I keep meeting the Google camera car as it makes its circuits gathering photos for Google Earth’s Street Views. I saw it in Skagway on Tuesday and got the photo below as it was coming out of the Liarsville Road (okay, I missed part of...

Many of you no doubt saw the strange little UFO-looking Xof1 solar car when it was up last summer for a tour. Well it’ll be back in Whitehorse either late Saturday or on Sunday. In the photo below, the Power of One (Xof1) solar car is seen on the...

Yesterday we just got a few flakes of snow, but last night it came down heavy and wet for a while starting at about 7:00. I had never heard that heavy, wet snow could kill satellite TV reception, but when we totally lost the HD channels and then the...

A few days ago I was downtown putting gas in Subie when I heard a lot of roaring up at the airport. By the time I got up there, the last of 5 or 6 Firecats had just taken off. I decided that I really need a VHF/UHF scanner...

Denali National Park is currently testing a hybrid bus that could replace the park’s fleet of 110 diesel-fueled buses. The 230-horsepower hybrid bus, painted white and sporting scenic views of Denali on its sides, went into service in the park last week. The hybrid buses run cleaner than the...

The Washington Post is running an interesting poll [now gone] on what readers consider to be the best travel innovation of the last decade. The leader by far at this point is suitcases with wheels, which is what I chose. But there are a lot of great choices. For...