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Just some odds and ends.
Occasionally You Win One… The other night after some searching I managed to find a jeweler’s screwdriver and thought that I would tackle trying to fix Leah’s laptop. I was thinking that if it was something obvious that was loose I could save the hassle and expense of sending the laptop out for repairs. A
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Nunavut Quest Dog race
Today is the start of the Nunavut Quest dog team race, it’s eighth year. The original race was conceived to celebrate the establishment of Nunavut and to promote inuit culture and traditional skills. For those of you familiar with the Ididerod and other western style races you wouldn’t recognize this one. For one thing inuit
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Ego
Sometimes the stangest things happen. I just got asked if I’d mind being interviewed by someone who is writing a book on Blogging. Which is cool, but he really needs to interview Whippoorwill and nuthatch. And through that I found this link to egoSurf and punched in my name and the URL of the House.
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Nunavut Blogs
Some of you may have noticed a "Manitoba" badge on my sidebar. I’m proud of where I’m from and like the idea of a central blog roll of blogs by Manitobans, both current ones and ex-pats like myself. I’m also proud of where I live, up here in the High Arctic. There are only 27,000
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23/5 Meme
Dave, the tireless blogger, webmaster, handyman, volcano watcher, and good guy over at Bird TLC, has tagged me with another meme (Golden child? I have two). The rules are… 1. Go into your archives.2. Find your 23rd post.3. Post the fifth sentence (or closest to it).4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog
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Arctic Goats?
Okay, I just couldn’t let this search string go by without notice. My latest hit on Google was from a search on.. "Information about the Arctic Goats that live in Nunavut". Are they a band?
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Merry Ukrainian Christmas
Khrystos Razhdaietsia! Its Ukrainian Christmas. Most of my favorite memories of celebrating Ukrainian Christmas revolve around the meal on Christmas eve at my Granny’s house. A large family gathering, filled with Aunts, Uncles and cousins. And of course my Granny. The traditional meal was always twelve meatless dishes, Pedohay, Holopchi, Boiled Wheat, Stewed prunes, Fussuli with
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2006 Bloggies
The 2006 Bloggies, the award for weblogs, have their nomination period open now. I’ve made my nominations, which include most of those blogs that I’ve linked on my sidebar, and suggest that you head over to their site, read the rules over, and make a nomination. You can only submit one nomination form, and you
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Budding Artist?
If you haven’t recently (or ever) visited Olduvai George, you should wander over there now. Especially if you are interested in a Photoshop art lesson from a true master. His latest post explains how he develops his great paintings. Man, I wish I had talent.
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Red Hot Blog of the Day(s ago)
Okay, I know the time between Halloween and Christmas is busy… I received an email from Red Orbit today, letting me know that I’m a Red Hot Blog of the Day. Kind of cool, but actually I was the Red Hot Blog of October 31st. I noticed it at the time because I had a