I am always interested in other people’s points of views on subjects that interest me. I found this site that allows you to make polls to see what people think about the questions of your choice. So, with this set up I will be occassionally be posting a poll on the left side of my [...]

I was directed to this site by Mastermaq the other day and it looks quite interesting. Now I know that you all take a look at your statistics even though you probably won’t admit it. We all like to see that there are people out there visiting our site and hopefully enjoying what we spend [...]

Day 2 of the NHL schedule and still no hockey. I think that we will be waiting a fair length of time for the NHL to get back to playing games. The two sides don’t even have any talks scheduled. It looks like the NHL and NHLPA are going to play chicken. NHL blinks and [...]

So today is October 13th, 2004. Today was supposed to be the start of the NHL regular season. A quick scan of my Centre Ice Package shows that there are no games being played. Just to be sure I checked the sports stations for scores and again there were no games being played. So whose [...]

Who is to blame for the current NHL Labor Dispute? Lockout? Strike? Call it what you like, the NHL is not starting its season on October 13th as the schedule says and there is nothing in the works in the immediate future to say we are going to be watching our favorite game anytime soon. [...]

So who is this cruel old lady? Who could be so mean that I would call her cruel? Mother Nature of course. She has been very cruel to us this week. Nothing like what she has done to the Caribbean with hurricanes or to Japan with the Typhoons but cruel nonetheless.
After giving us our first [...]

After a successful daytime online course 2 weeks ago I decided to take another, this time in the evenings. For the next 2 1/2 weeks I will be busy from 4:00 until 7:30 taking the course. Work all day and course at night. The first week has been long but very interesting.
The course I am [...]

Have you ever stopped to think about what happens when a hurricane or typhoon destroys the areas that it touches? Many of us listen to the news and hear the number of humans that are killed or the dollar value of the homes and businesses that are destroyed. But the damage we don’t hear about [...]

Has winter come to Inuvik? Let’s take a look at what has transpired over the last 3 days. Thursday saw the first major snow fall of this fall season, about 4″ of the fluffy white stuff. Last night we had a low of -13° C with windchills actually reaching -18° C at 4:00 this morning. [...]

The defending champion Edmonton Eskimos went down to defeat for the third straight game…again. This is the second time this year they have lost 3 in a row. For more on the game and the Eskimos visit the SportsGuru.

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