I have predicted the future of Social Networking.
While true, there are at least two caveats that must be observed of my bold statement: My prediction might not come to pass. As of last week, pretty much ev...
UK Election’s Most Important Rule
On election day, never, ever, wear anything but a solid-colour tie. From left: Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Still, I'd take any one of them over Harper.
You’d think that at least the Y2K bugaboo would’ve been sorted out by now.
I was clearing out some receipts earlier today and found this. Adjusting for inflation, my withdrawal could've financed the second Boer War. At the time...
In a Yukon spring, there is always one more…
The question is: is this the "one more," or is the "one more" yet to come?
Were I from the East, yesterday would’ve been my Oriental-Oriented Orienteering Orientation.
...but I'm not, and unfortunately, "Occidental-oriented" is an ornamented accident. Put much more simply, Carole and I took the Yukon Orienteering Associatio...
Full Adoption of the Metric System Delayed
The forecast that greeted me this morning: ...and an atmospheric pressure of 33888241107 dynes per square fathom. So, the temperature is just above freezing,...
Gwynne Dyer’s “Anybody’s Son Will Do” Documentary on YouTube
This morning I happened upon a mention of Gwynne Dyer's 1983 NFB documentary, Anybody's Son Will Do. In one succinct hour, it explains the motivation behind ...
yukon dude profile on geof harries’ blog
somewhere along the line i decided that my little company's title would also be little, and so i always spell it in lowercase. that makes it especially diffi...
Recommended night-time high-finance reading: “The Big Short” by Michael Lewis
I tore through Michael Lewis's The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine over the weekend. In it, he tells the sorry tale of the subprime mortgage crisis th...
The Easter Briefcase
Under the couch in a far corner of a small university pub, four 20-something fellows find an unlocked briefcase containing: one paperback thriller novel, on...
I figured if I put iPad in the title, people would read this.
April third! iPad day! Or, iPad day for those in the States. Or, iPad day for those so infatuated with the latest Apple gewgaw that they're willing to fly do...
All nodes link to Chrome.
Firefox has got to go. It was terrific in its day, but has now succumbed to two horrid Microsoftisms: Software that grows slow and fragile with age, and Reb...