Whitehorse has a new website and it's MUCH improved.

Starting with the name itself: whitehorse.ca is far easier to remember than city.whitehorse.yk.ca.

I have spent a few frustrated afternoons (to put it mildly) trying to navigate the old site and I am very pleased with how resourceful the new site is. Some highlights include:

The Notify Me section for press releases, newsletters and more

The festival sub-site under Visitors. Design-wise, there are some awful shadows and glows here that deviate from the look of the main site, but look how exciting February in Whitehorse is!

The Canada Games Centre section is really nice too, and automatically loads today's schedule.

I find the background looks a little bit like American money, but the site was designed by an American company called Vision Internet that specializes in Government websites, so I guess it's part of the terrain.

There's a strange gradient fading the city's logo into the background which confuses me. But other than a few nit-picky things, the site is pleasing and very useful. Have a look through—you're sure to find something you'll want to come back to!

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With an all-day menu consisting of chips, hot dogs and pre-wrapped sandwiches from the gas station on Wilger Lane, it had always been clear to the more polished townspeople that what happened at the Stumbling Monkey had very little to do with food. After three decades tending the towns only licensed restaurant, he should have seen it coming. 

He first heard Nettie Spencer refer to herself in the third person as he unloaded beer steins from the aging rotary dishwasher. A mental note instantly appeared on the post-it of his brain: That tall vodka/water with a splash of lime, but not too much lime this time, residing in her left hand will be her last.

The fight broke out shortly after the Leaf's game ended. Elaine Solomon, a spry retiree from the main street post office, had Nettie Specncer by the...

Congratulations Micheal Pealow!  Micheal won two tickets for tomorrow night's Whitehorse Concerts presentation of Guy & Nadina—lucky man.

And knowledgable, too. It was a bit of a tricky question because the instrument does very closely resemble a french horn, but is, in fact, called a corno da caccia or cornet de cassio. 

Thanks for entering everyone. Keep your eyes peeled for our next contest. 

For your viewing pleasure,  Shit Musicians Say — yet another spoof of the original Shit Girls Say series. 

Stay warm and have a great weekend.  

Welcome to Monday friends—just another -40 day in the Yukon. Fortunately, we've got another contest to warm up your week. 

Tell us the correct name of this instrument . . . 

and you will be entered to win two tickets to the highly anticipated Guy & Nadina storytellers' recital presented by Whitehorse Concerts on Saturday, January 21.

Contest closes Thursday, January 19 at noon and we'll contact the winner shortly after. So all you music nerds, cultural aficionados and the curious alike, get your entries in. 

Aside from making sparkler art, I spent my holiday with my nose buried in the Steve Jobs biography. What a jerk, but such a prolific one—responsible for Apple, Pixar, and iStuff (you know what I mean, iTunes, iPod, etc). It's a great read though—author Walter Isaacson weaves the electronic advances since the '70s and how Steve Jobs propelled many of them forward with dramatic personal tidbits in such a way that it's a page-turner.

As an '80s baby, it's neat to read about how the computer industry evolved as I grew up and where I sit now, typing on my iMac. Oh, by the way, the "i" in iMac, is because the product is integrated with the internet!

Me in 1982 and Apple's short-lived computer 'Lisa' in 1983. At this time I believe the computer was bigger than me.

Me in 2011 and the iMac at the beginning on 2012. Thankfully I am not the size of this computer!

Any guesses as to what it will look like by 2013?