FedEx on Yukon Time? A Tale of Two Packages.
I recently submitted two online orders: the first, a replacement laptop power adapter from Dell; the second, a memory upgrade for the same laptop from Crucia...
Here’s your damned Yukon Blackout Map Mashup.
This is yet another entry in the increasingly improbable Yukon Blackout Mashup & Feed Saga. You didn't ask for it, but you get it anyway: the [Sample] Yu...
Coming Soon: Yukon Energy Blackout RSS Feed
This is one more page in the Yukon Blackout Mashup & Feed Saga. In response to my recent request, I received a note from Yukon Energy (YEC) that they've ...
Hey Genius! Read This!
I spotted Andrew Stark's "How Accessible is Your Blog" posting on Urban Yukon and just had to see what the Blog Readability Test had to say about What He Sai...
Has America Jumped the Shark?
As I write this, one Euro will buy you 1.47 US Dollars. The Loonie, meanwhile, is kissing a buck-ten US. Oil and gold are up too. China is renooberating some...
Programming Language Scrabble
We broke out Scrabble™ last night. While working through the permutations of my seven letters, I seemed to happen upon reserved words from various programmin...
Spambots Ahoy!
Last I week I wrote about the hijacking of my e-mail domain by spammers. I happened to mention that the messages that were rejected by other e-mail recipient...
I also want a Yukon Energy Blackout RSS Feed
This is the second entry of the ever-growing Yukon Blackout Mashup & Feed Saga. While waiting for my Yukon Energy Blackout Mashup (I sent a note offering...
I want a Yukon Energy Blackout Mashup
Update: Yukon Energy Responds (see below). This is the first posting in what has become known as the Yukon Blackout Mashup & Feed Saga. More than most, I...
Am I not Master of My (E-mail) Domain?
For the past year or so, some jackass has hijacked my yukondude.com domain to serve as the return address for uncountable spam mailings. I've since grown inu...
The Best (Two) Explanations of the Subprime Crisis
The following skit brilliantly explains the whole subprime brouhaha. It's performed by a British comedy duo known as The Long Johns, Messrs Bird and Fortune....
“Maxed Out”, a Consumer-Debt Documentary, is Online
I funded most of my university career by hawking musical instruments, surfing my many credit cards (i.e., paying one with another), and accumulating an impre...