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Great Award Winning Blogs
Just a quick note to point you in the direction (once again) of the Best NWT Blogs. Voting is over and the winners have been announced. Head over there to check out who won, but more importantly check out the blogs that were up for the awards, award winners or not. Reading them is worth…
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The swing
Yesterday was the Winter Solstice, and now the sun has begun its journey back to the Arctic. The reality, of course, is the tilt of the earth has now started to swing around to our favour, but the sun beginning a journey sounds, better. This photo was taken around 1:30 this afternoon. I had to…
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Baby did a bad bad thing
The Christmas Season, coupled with a pronounced tendency for procrastination that went up another level lately, means I've been remiss about promoting some blogs up for awards lately. So badly that I appear to have missed the voting round for the Canadian Blog Awards completely. In addition there is only one day left to vote…
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Struck down by the Flu, Part two.
Continued from page one When the German Triplanes turned back to search for other targets, McLeod did the unexpected. He turned back and started to chase them. It was so out of character for an observer plane, especially one that had just narrowly escaped being shot down, that they didn't watch for him. McLeod chased…
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Struck down by the Flu
One of the reasons I continue to be interested in the Great War is not the greater histories, the battles, the politics, the way it shaped the world in ways that are still felt today. Rather it is the individual stories, at turns tragic, or heroic, at times funny, many times profoundly sad. The Great…
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Cannibal!
First off, I believe that climate change is a serious problem, that it is human driven, and that it is having a profound effect on the Arctic. That said, it annoys me to no end that almost everything is being used to make the arguement that climate change is happening. Look, I understand that it…
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Looming
A quick note to let you know that The Nunies are looming large on the horizon. The annual awards for Nunavut Blogging (Best Blog, Best New Blog – blogs started in 2009, and Best Post) will open for nominations in a couple of weeks. In the mean time, I encourage you to visit as many…
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Practice makes…
So, its been frustrating trying to get decent photos of the fish, mostly due to focus issues, with lighting being the other challenge. I just use the built in flash, so reflection would be a problem. Now, to deal with any glass reflection from the aquarium, I hold the lens against the glass. And for…
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Guppy photo
Tonight I tried to take some photos of the fish, for the most part without success. Ah, who am I kidding, completely without success. As it happens, the best shot includes the female I just wrote about. Here she is with two males, and she's in female mode. Although you can see a bit of…
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A guppy in disquise
A few months ago, we acquired about a dozen and a half of guppies. They were fry, or immature at the time we got them, and one of the issues we have, now that they are grown, is that we have too many males for the tank. As a result of this the female guppies…
