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Portraits of Saskatoon

If you are still looking for a spectacular gift with a Saskatoon theme, check out these prints by Saskatoon photographer Christina Weese of the Victoria Traffic Bridge. They look fantastic, are a limited run, and you are supporting a local artist.  Oh yeah, someone is also getting a great gift. Speaking of the arts, I [...]

Column: Tackling Local Problems Tricky

My StarPhoenix column this week. When I bought my house I had certain expectations. I expected the police to keep marauding mobs off my street, the fire department to put out fires, my neighbours to maintain their homes and city council not to make decisions that would hurt the value of my investment. I didn’t [...]

What to do in Saskatoon during the summer of 2010

With Wendy working at Safeway and her shifts being all over the map, we need to plan ahead as a family if we are going to enjoy all of what Saskatoon has to offer this summer.  While we won’t get to all of these events this summer, here is my list of why I think [...]

Seizure

Today’s events started innocently enough yesterday.  I was planning to stock up some office supplies at the Front Desk at the Centre and was going through the Staples/Corporate Express catalog.  I made my notes and realized that instead of making our Exec Assistant’s life miserable, I would just run to Office Depot and get them [...]

University of Saskatchewan Huskies vs. the UBC Thunderbirds

The Huskies are hosting the UBC Thunderbirds this Friday at Griffiths Stadium.  Unless the weather is beyond horrible, I will be attending with Mark and my brother.  Let me know if you want to join us. Despite being a big football fan and a fan of the Huskies since I was a kid, I think [...]

Free Wifi Hotspots in Saskatoon

Saskatoon does a good job in providing wireless capability to it’s residents.  The yellow areas show where Saskatchewan! Connected provides free wifi access to Saskatoon (and other Saskatchewan cities.  There are also a bunch of other free wifi networks to tap into and I put a list of known public networks for you to tap [...]

Wireless Update

A bunch of e-mail the last couple of days asking how the wireless network is doing. The answer is really well. The only bug is my Windows 98 notebook won’t shut down now and I have no idea why. I am going to run System Mechanic on it and clean out the crap out of [...]