The simple pleasures and home-based business
Working from home isn’t without its challenges – from uneven cash flow to the occasional difficulty of staying focused. But on days like today when I can add kitten-sittin’ to my Web site duties, “there’s no place like home”. Molly spent much of the afternoon curled up beside my...
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Changing priorities and travel
An interesting and positive contrast to my post about changes in technology and attitudes hurting some music companies is an email from insurance company AIG Travel Guard yesterday. The insurance business is extremely competitive, forcing companies to be quick in reacting to economic and lifestyle trends, but the extent...
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Truths in Alaska? Read Craig Medred
Every place needs a writer or 2 or 6 who thinks about what’s going on and what’s being said by others – I mean really thinks – and then writes about his assessments. My favourite Alaskan writer in that vein is Craig Medred, whose columns appear in the Anchorage...
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Politically correct? Not at Yukon Confidential
Many of you know what I think of the Yukon Government as a corporate entity. From the former heroin trafficker Premier to the nationally-famous hiring practices, I have nothing good to say about it. That’s why I’m very pleased to see a new blog devoted to airing the dirty...
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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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Whitehorse visited on a flight around the world
I had just started down the Alaska Highway to Carcross yesterday afternoon when I got thoroughly distracted by an unsual bird. Descending out of the ragged clouds was a large aircraft with a paint scheme I’d never seen before. I pulled around and headed back to the airport at...
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The significance of domain names
Did any of you watch Dragon’s Den last night? If so, you saw just how significant a domain name can be when you’re promoting a Web site. The developers of UniversityParty.ca got turned down for financing largely because they don’t own UniversityParty.com (a company in New York owns it)....
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Please don’t grow up to be a Yukoner
This is another easy-to-amuse morning for me. I see that recruiters from Queen Margaret’s School, an “all girls’ university preparatory school” for Grades 7-12 are going to be in Whitehorse on Tuesday. Their half-page ad doesn’t say anything about their academic programme, but does say that the school, located...
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Lunch with a view – and jets! – in Whitehorse
Restaurants come and go regularly in Whitehorse, sometimes due to changes in the quality of the service and/or food (which means that Ricky’s will be the next to go), sometimes seemingly due merely to the fickle nature of public opinion. For the past 3 years or so, the most...
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Freelancing capital of the world?
I wonder where the freelancing capital of the world is. If Whitehorse isn’t it, it must be right up there. It seems like an enormous percentage of the population here is like me – they either freelance as their main gig, or at least has some sort of freelance...
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