Governments and room-temperature IQs
There is an article in today’s Anchorage Daily News that makes me both sad and angry. There are 3,800 soldiers returning to Fairbanks from Iraq – 26 of their fellow Fairbanks residents returned from this single unit Iraq posting in body bags. That’s 26 people from a town not...
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Coldest place on the planet?
Apparently that’s what some weather media Outside are saying. In Whitehorse it was only -40°C this morning, which is bloody cold for November, but in January is no big deal. There was a term on the Environment Canada site this morning that I don’t recall seeing before, though –...
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No comments – why blog?
Some of you who don’t blog may wonder why bloggers keep posting when few people respond with Comments. Some bloggers are just keeping an online journal for themselves, so it doesn’t matter at all, but in my case, the reason is that I have stats and a visitor map...
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Yukon highway lodges – more of the story
As well as the article about Yukon bloggers (which I think was poorly executed) in yesterday’s Yukon News, there was an article about Yukon highway lodges being forced to close, supposedly because of the government’s new health regulations and the related costs of new septic systems. Bear Creek Lodge,...
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Yukon politics – friends helping friends
You probably think that the title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek comment – politicians, after all, are about as loved as used-car salesmen. I’ve just spent a weekend at a Mayors and Councillors training workshop at Haines Junction, though, and have now seen municipal politicians, their support staff...
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How to annoy your Web site visitors
There are some really bad Web sites out there. A recent article at eMarketer focusses on slow-loading sites that kill sales, but many other annoyances are listed as well – click here for the archived version of the whole article. Although pop-up ads are listed in virtually every survey...
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Labour shortages & shopping online
I’ve gotten waaaay behind in my reading lately due to politics, house renovations, Web site building and a seemingless endless list of other stuff going on. Catching up, I see that the October 13th issue of How’s Business Yukon focussed on the current labour shortage in Whitehorse. Of the...
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Fun with death
There are a lot of places in North America where putting a dead body on your lawn would be considered in bad taste. Bad taste because it happens too often. In Whitehorse, seeing police tape and a dead body on a lawn is just seen as getting into the...
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Here we go – another election
There’s little visible enthusiasm about the election that’s only 2 days away. Visible in the usual sense of signs. But people are talking, and that’s probaby more important. I just got off the phone with CBC’s Leonard Linklater, discussing some of the voting details and issues in the Carcross...
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Beer scooters
Posting this will prevent my blood pressure from going any higher by thinking about Yukoners collectively failing both their IQ and Morality tests yesterday. Maybe the Beer Scooter explains that, too 🙂 ==================== How many times have you woken up in the morning after a hard night drinking and...
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