Our best travel aid for the New Zealand trip
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...
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Technology to keep teens safe
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...
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Frost causing power outages??
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...
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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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iPod Speakers – Finally Found!
You wouldn’t think that finding good speakers for your iPod would be that tough, would you? Okay, “good” is subjective – what I’ve been looking for for a long time is a small portable system with good sound (duh!) to use on the deck. I finally found what I...
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The CarcrossCam is back
Many of you seem to know that the CarcrossCam has been offline since December 22nd. Illness combined with the fact that the CPU that runs it shuts down every now and then, possibly due to power issues, and then the Computer Gremlin visited with one of his Blue Screens...
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