So you’re going to drive to the Yukon
(Carole, the dog, and I logged a good 15,484 kilometres in the truck this summer driving down to Ontario to visit the folks. For the record, the itinerary we...
Manager no more.
It was less than 9 months ago that I joined Yukon College as the manager of the Computing Services department. Naturally, only two months later I discovered ...
Three reasons for NorthwesTel’s three fibre-optic cable cuts this past week.
As we wait for NorthwesTel's (edit: actually, Bell Canada's) weary and underappreciated fibre-optic cable repair team to splice together the line cut near Da...
May 17, 2009. No Furnace Day.
Seriously? Let me get this straight: upon viewing the title "No Furnace Day" your brain saw fit to order your hand and finger muscles to perform the complica...
Unsolicited prose found lacking in certain respects.
I received the following unsolicited offering of prose via electronic lettermail this very day, formatted much the way you see it here: i am so grateful for...
How to buy three chairs.
On March 5th I got a note that one of the computer labs in the College was minus three chairs. They were borrowed or mangled or misplaced or had succumbed to...
You are currently using 1258 MB (4%) of your 25600 MB
Google got me. Oh, I can still muster distrust in that Yankee corporate overlord of the Internet, but it was the spam that finally punched my ticket. Running...
The Discipline of the Plug
Cold air descends, and cold weather also seems to pour down from the higher atmosphere. It nestles in the low spots, squirms around a little to get comfortab...
“I’m trying to find an air-conditioner. In the Yukon. In December.”
That is an excerpt from an actual conversation held with a plumbing and heating contractor. I will likely soon forget the circumstances of yesterday's teleph...
Perspective Shift
The title of this post reminded me of my first attempt at the driver's licence examination. I failed for speeding, but returned the next day to argue that, d...
Conservatives Promise to Re-Introduce Canadian DMCA
According to their finally-released platform, the Tories intend to reintroduce the Canadian DMCA bill formerly known as C-61 (it would get a new number in th...
What I did at the interview.
I had my first interview in many a year this morning. I have no earthly idea how it went though. It seemed as though I spent most of it floating above myself...