The Google camera car in Skagway & Whitehorse
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...
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My apologies for the blog issues
If you came to the blog in the past 24 hours or so, I’m sorry about the Gawd-awful mess you found, especially if it froze your browser as it did Cathy’s and mine. I don’t know what it was, but I’ve totally rebuilt the blog with new files and...
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Today’s cool Northern Web sites
Back in February 1997 when I opened my “Yukon & Alaska History” Web site, the Internet was an exciting new world. Wonderful new Web sites were appearing all the time, and I used to post links to the best I’d found that week. When I joined “The Mining Company”...
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It’s Not Working…
To all my friends who send me ‘best wishes’, chain letters, ‘angel’ letters or other promises of good luck if I forward something, NONE OF THAT SHIT IS WORKING! Could you please just send money, alcohol, chocolate or gasoline vouchers? (hint – I really like single-malt Scotch) 🙂 Actually,...
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Updated blog design
You might notice that the blog has a new design (as of 05:30 this morning) – it’s not a radical change by any means, but it is different. The big changes are behind the scenes – it’s an up-to-the-minute design in terms of blog technology (it’s now powered by...
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Are you a target for a domain name scam?
If you’re in Canada, have a Web site and own a domain name for it, you have received or will receive an envelope in the mail that looks like this: Don’t open it, throw it in the trash. Inside is what looks like an invoice to renew your domain,...
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Whitehorse Freecycle
The Whitehorse Freecycle Network is a Yahoo Group that is open to all who want to “recycle” that special something rather than throw it away. Whether it’s a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old door, feel free to post it. Or maybe you’re looking to acquire something...
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YTBay – some people just wanna get sued
How long do you think that YTBayonline.com will last? Maybe they’ve never heard of copyright infringement, and how little sense of humour companies like eBay have about it… The Angel’s Nest youth shelter project is certainly worth looking at, but a “fund-raiser” like this puts them off to a...
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Come on folks – your Web site IS important
There seems to be a lot of people around now who begin to understand how important a Web site can be to most businesses and organizations, but for some reason that knowledge doesn’t get developed into a functional part of the business plan. This week, at least partly because...
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Digital magazines
Years ago it was said by some self-proclaimed pundits that the digital age would be the end of books, magazines and newspapers. While that hasn’t happened, there have been some major changes in the publishing world. I love the feel of books, and e-books will never replace them in...
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