- March 9, 2004
- Second day in a row that there has been enough sunlight and at the right angle
to light up my basement office without tne need for ligths. A definite sign of spring.
- March 8, 2004
- This web site did not post Saturday or Sunday.
- March 5, 2004
- This web site has taken pains to archive all of its material, the question is,
should be archive the "happening" section, would a record of past events
be useful. Let me know what you think.
- March 4, 2004
- New departmet added to Ensign today, the happenings spot (below).
Yesterday I included in Kevin's find a song sung by Lionel Richie but it was really
a Stevie Wonder song so we have revised that with a real Lionel Richie song. Thanks
to Andy Trump for pointing that out.
- March 3, 2004
- The pictures of the day archive
page has been updated for February.
- March 2, 2004
- After several weeks of dullness there were hints of sunlight today.
- March 1, 2004
- Very happy to be able to work on today's posting after taking a fall on ice on
our driveway, I am considering bringing a suit against the owner.
- February 28, 2004
- The work yesterday was begun with good intentions but a printing problem on an
unrelated project consumed the work time. A massive build up of static electricity
welded the 135 page print out into a single block preventing the printing of the
back side of those pages.
- February 27, 2004
- Will try to get today's stories up and at this time (3:10) due to the storm I
am not sure about posting tomorrow or Sunday, time alone will tell.
- February 26, 2004
- Days and days of fog and low ceiling seems to be a bit depressing but the facts
seem to add up that there is a distinct hint of spring out there.
- February 25, 2004
- Sorry I was unable to post last night, something came up and I just ran out of
time.
- February 24, 2004
- Experimentation with "IP" telephony is on going, hope to be able bring
you a report on this technological move as it progresses.
- February 23, 2004
- Ensign did not post Saturday and Sunday.
- February 20, 2004
- Two opposing views of Grant Devines unacceptance. Edwin from his Saskatchewan
point of view and Joe from Ontario.
- February 19, 2004
- The more time spent on graphics on this site the slower I am getting stories
posted. Today's "Snowtime" story is the first done completely using a Canon
Optura 10 Camcorder using its still camera feature.
- February 18, 2004
- Pictures from Winnipeg and Gravelbourg today.
- February 17, 2004
- Getting the week off to a slow start. Did fog driving until very late last night,
seem to still be in a fog.
- February 14, 2004
- No posting Sunday or Monday as we are on a road trip.
- February 13, 2004
- Ensign will post tomorrow but will not be posting on Sunday and Monday of the
coming week.
- February 12, 2004
- The premier's second roundtable meeting takes place tomorrow, this one in Tisdale,
we will have pictures later tomorrow on his visit.
- February 11, 2004
- Video of the Culligan Synchronised Skating Championship from this past
Saturday are available for $15.00 plus shipping.
- February 10, 2004
- Lots of weather pictures and a little politics to get us through a Tuesday evening.
- February 9, 2004
- It took much more time that anticipated sorting out the QuickTime videos for
the synchronised skating story so sorry about not getting it and other material posted
Sunday.
- February 8, 2004
- Today's story on sychronised skating includes video that requires QuickTime to
view. If you do not have QuickTime installed you will not be able to view this material
to install click here.
- February 6, 2004
- Sunday we will have some pictures of the ice formations left from the fire in
Moose Jaw. We will not be posting Saturday.
- February 5, 2004
- Beautiful day in Tisdale as the morning skies parted and the sun is pouring down
on us.
- February 4, 2004
- Image archives (picture of the day) caught up to date.
- February 3, 2004
- Temperature in the negative twenties a whole lot easier to deal with than in
the thirties and forties.
- February 2, 2004
- We did not post Sunday.
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January 31, 2004
- Mild storm today in Tisdale with snow and drifting snow conditions.
- January 30, 2004
- Thanks to those of you who offered encouragement about
the "blue" pictures and music.
- January 29, 2004
- Today and tomorrow we have some great pictures for you. Both the Blue ones
today and Parkland Photography today and tomorrow we see sunlight and fog
combined.
- January 28, 2004
- What do you expect, year after year it gets cold in late January, check the Weather log and you can see what it was like in
years past.
- January 27, 2004
- Not many pictures will be taken until it warms up a little. -38º with a
-54º windchill will keep me behind doors and windows.
- January 26, 2004
- We did not post Saturday or Sunday.
- January 23, 2004
- If you are thinking about setting up a web site give me a call (306 873 2004)
or send me email, I might be able to help.
- January 22, 2004
- There is a serious chill all across Canada today following the raid by the RCMP
on an Ottawa report's home and office(Julliet O'Neill). Telling the truth may no
longer be legal in Canada.
- January 21, 2004
- I have avoided using "Flash" presentations of images during the last
while, today is an exception as these pictures seem to lend themselves to this format.
- January 20, 2004
- This web site is now 924MB all available and archived by date. Google
surveys the site several times a day and it is easiest to find something using Google.
- January 19, 2004
- Upgraded old Blue and White from 350 G3 to 500 G4 today, no crisis encountered.
- January 18, 2004
- We all develop attachments to our cars at one time or another, Art
Simmons writes:
"hi just read the
story of that great car --- just want to say that there was a Cdn. model
called Stato Chief -- I would love to own a 63 Pontiac car. again --loved
that car when it drove me -I don't know why I let her go -- oh well one can dream
thankyou, A.S."
I must admitt that I too owned a Strato Chief, perhaps will do a story on it one
day.
- January 17, 2003
- Did anybody warn us about today's cold snap, gosh I didn't hear anything about
it but our high in Tisdale today was at -25ºC. Speaking of warnings, the "boil
water" warning for Tisdale ended at 1:00PM Friday.
- January 16, 2004
- Today it was time to get the infrastructure on Ensign caught up. Pictures of
the day, and weekly and monthly index work.
- January 15, 2004
- It seems I am always slipping further and further behind and getting later and
later each day. I am hoping that the major upgrade to my computer will result in
a boost of productivity.
- January 14, 2004
- Winter weather brings out the thoughts of summer and many of us are already into
planning the coming summer holidays. "Fisk alert, the Fisks are planning
a reunion at Langbank on July 31."
- January 13, 2004
- Will do my best to catch on a backlog of submissions that I was unable to post
when they arrived.
- January 12, 2004
- Though improving somewhat still well below par will attempt to get several stories
up this evening.
- January 10, 2004
- I regret to inform you that the reason this site has not been updated as is usually
the practice, because the editor is sick. Sorry about the webcam being off, holiday
visitors disabled it but it is working now (11:30 Saturday morning)
- January 7, 2004
- I truly hope everyone else is not having the same problem getting things re-organised
in the new year after the holiday. I have been involved in service work and unable
to get things posted.
- January 2, 2004
- Still pretty much trying to get in gear, all of the family here so doing what
can be done.
- January 1, 2004
- Happy New Year! I did not finish the predictions last night so here they are
today.
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December 31, 2003
- Happy New Year! We will not post until Friday.
- December 30, 2003
- What a struggle, have project underway that has interferred with this web site
will post when ever possible, thanks for being patient.
- December 27, 2003
- There was just not enough energy left over to get this site posted yesterday
hope to do better today.
- December 24, 2003
- We will not post on Christmas day but will have some new stories on Boxing Day.
- December 23, 2003
- Pretty weary but attempting to get tonight's stories up.
- December 16, 2003
- Tonight we are posting for the last time until we get back from Winnipeg. We
will have pictures on next Tuesday.
- December 15, 2003
- Keep watching but it is going to be hard to keep all the various elements of
the site up to date. However, we will keep posting pictures as often as possible.
Will not be posting Thursday 18th until Tuesday 23 when we do our best. As of yesterday
we began logging our sixth full year of weather.
- December 14, 2003
- From now until the end of the year we will be having some problems in posting,
a wedding this weekend in Winnipeg means we will be away from Thursday until Monday
then have to get Christmas together. Keep watching but it is going to be hard to
keep all the various elements of the site up to day. However, we will keep posting
pictures as often as possible.
- December 13, 2003
- If you miss a day or two, or even a week or two this site retains all of its
stories and you can use the calendar menus to go back and catch up on your reading
and picture viewing.
- December 12, 2003
- Missing three days of work this week, it is hard to get caught up with the day
to day infrastructure of this site. However, pushing on.
- December 11, 2003
- As planned I have been unable to post due to a stay in Regina but will try to
get caught up today and tomorrow.
- December 7, 2003
- I will be in Regina Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and may be unable to post those
days but will be back here at work Thursday.
- December 6, 2003
- It seems like I had a problem with a Compact Flash card because I shot
the same images I lost on Thursday and sure enough lost them having to get those
same pictures for a third time.
- December 4, 2003
- A minor glitch with the new Panther operating system and the image card
reader resulting in 1/3 of today's shots being erased. $#@*&^%)(
- December 3, 2003
- Today we side step and look at an old airplane and then a little political concerns.
- December 2, 2003
- Now's the time to begin thinking about solving your Christmas shopping problems
right here in Tisdale. We will take you to some of the shops so you can see them
in the next two weeks.
- December 1, 2003
- We were unable to post yesterday. Today we begin a series of pictures, one a
day of homes decorated for Christmas.
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- November 28
- We will not be posting Saturday, November 29.
- November 27, 2003
- The pictures of the day archive has been brought up to date.
- November 26, 2003
- We will have pictures of the new "teen" store tomorrow.
- November 25, 2003
- You would think at some point the massive and spiralling development of computer
software, hardware and networks would begin to slow but that simply isn't happening
as the pace of development is continuing to move forward exponentially.
- November 24, 2003
- Mac OS X, Panther 10.3 is quite impressive, so far it has outstanding manners
but the improvment in speed is noticable.
- November 23, 2003
- The plan was to get a posting Saturday but a trip intervened and here it is late
Sunday night after a major install of the new Mac OS X, Panther 10.3.
- November 21, 2003
- Due to other committments I was unable to post yesterday, sorry about that.
In a comment made about the length of the televised edition of the Grey Cup Victor
Cote writes: "I very much agree with your thought of the day about the lenght
of the game.It has gotten to the point the many half hour programs barely have fifteen
minutes of content.When will we rise up and protest all that garbage?"
- November 19, 2003
- Many people discover this web site when looking something up in a search engine.
Should you find a story you want to respond to, do
so by all means but be sure to refer to its date so we know what to what you
are referring.
- November 18, 2003
- Since this web site began Philip Lindenback has been an inspiration to the many
themes that have been pursued and though he only made one or two contributions but
our monthly visits lead to a host of story ideas. His funeral was today.
- November 17, 2003
- This web site is visited by a significant number of people every day. If you
have something you think people should know, or know about send along your
story to me. There are several things we need with each submission:
- Your real name and location,
- Though pictures are preferred to accompany and make a story interesting if you
have no images available we will add images and
- where ever possible give references to support or validate your story.
- November 14, 2003
- Ensign will not be posting Saturday or Sunday this Grey Cup weekend. Received
this note from an Alberta or BC reader, "Hi Just a short note to let you
know that I really enjoyed going through all the pictures of Tisdale. What a
great idea for a newspaper.Your web page is terrific. Keep up all the good work."
- November 13, 2003
- In May of 2002 I posted images of
Kevin Lockwood's (Nipawin) outstanding kit Hummer Replica. It looked so good
to me I thought it was an original then when I was alerted to the mistake I posted
a correction with links. Since then I have received a lot of Email about the
story so you might want to check out the updated links on both stories including
a link to Kevin's page on his
truck.
- November 12, 2003
- This web site has a maturing archive of material and you will find it illuminating
to check out what it was like or what stories were posted during the past few years.
Remarkable how things only appear to change.
- November 11, 2003
- It has been a couple of weeks since we displayed a QuickTime VR
on this site since the machine used to create these upgrades itself weekly it has
the most recent version of QuickTime installed. If your version of QuickTime does
not display the VR just install a newer version of Quicktime.
- November 10, 2003
- Ensign did not post Saturday or Sunday.
- November 7, 2003
- The summary pages for pictures of the day have been updated.
- November 6, 2003
- Did some retail marketing this morning only to discover that in most cases product
pricing at the big box stores makes the average VAR unable to compete as most retail
prices in the major chains is about the same prices as wholesale when shipping and
money handling is included.
- November 5, 2003
- Glued to the television for election results, after dental surgery this morning
but will post today's stories but very late tonight.
- November 4, 2003
- Efforts will be made to post today's stories but the work envirnoment in my office
limits me to just over an hour of work at a time due to the contamination of the
environment by the furnace clearner.
- November 3, 2003
- Office moderately improved but I am late tonight with this page because I am
limited to a little more than an hour working here. Air is improving.
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- October 30, 2003
- Due to environmental contamination our office is unsafe and we may not be able
to post Friday or Saturday but hope to be able to get some things up on Sunday night.
- October 29, 2003
- We had pictures Monday and Tuesday, today you will have to settle for politics
as we consider two issues, the election and the convergence of the Tories and the
Alliance.
- October 28, 2003
- Sorry we are late getting today's posting up online.
- October 27, 2003
- Unfortunately, an illness interrupted plans to post Saturday and Sunday, but
feeling better today and forging forward.
- October 26, 2003
- It was a one complete year ago that the topic link pages were added to the front
page of this web site yet it was not until last night that an observant reader spotted
the misspelling of "agriculture". I welcome any corrections, with the size
of this site and the amount of material processed each day things get missed.
- October 24, 2003
- Today's Mark Pitzel presentation is the second of three video clips of provincial
election candidtates. All use QuickTime.
- October 23, 2003
- Thanks to all who let their names stand for local elections everywhere, without
your willingness to participate we would all be poorer.
- October 22, 2003
- Really late this great day putting Ensign together, sorry about that.
- October 21, 2003
- The thanksgiving holiday and the long trip we took last weekend have put me a
bit behind but every effort will be made to get caught up.
- October 20, 2003
- Tomorrow watch for a video clip of Saskatchewan Party candidate, Allan Kerpan
- October 19, 2003
- Did not post Friday and Saturday. This week we will be posting video clips of
each of the candidates for the contituency of Carrot River Valley.
- October 15, 2003
- Ensign will not post Friday or Saturday but should have some things
up Sunday night after a planned trip to Swift Current and Tompkins.
- October 14, 2003
- Though we had intended to get a posting Monday it just turned out to be impossible.
As for this week, we will be posting today through to Thursday, but will not post
Friday or Saturday but should have some things up Sunday night after
a planned trip to Swift Current and Tompkins.
- October 10, 2003
- Picture of the day summary page updated. Thanksgiving weekend and do not plan
to post Saturday or Sunday.
- October 9, 2003
- Looking forward to the Thanksgiving weekend and do not plan to post Saturday
or Sunday.
- October 8, 2003
- Election November 5, looks like there's a missed prediction.
- October 7, 2003
- Still working on the breakfast problem.
- October 6, 2003
- Ensign now consists of 855 MB of accessible material.
- October 5, 2003
- We are awash in fall, leaves to the knees.
- October 3, 2003
- This site will not be posting this Saturday.
- October 2, 2003
- Road trip planned and this site will not be posting Saturday.
- October 1, 2003
- We have added some contributions to the "letters"
page today.
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September 30, 2003
- The update of this web site has been altered and will occur gradually through
the day as material is added. Weather and basic page change at 10:00 stories added
there after. Today's last update at 6:00.
- September 28, 2003
- Ensign plans increased coverage of Trojan hockey this season. Opening
game of the season is on Tuesday night. Updates to Education and Aviation topic directories.
Addition to "letters".
- September 26, 2003
- Ensign will post Saturday, September 27.
- September 25, 2003
- The gradual change of this site is intended to pick up its download speed, as
always, comments welcome.
- September 24, 2003
- Our summer trip to Oshkosh left us with so many stories to tell. Today is the
second aircraft we will feature over the next while, this one being the number two
on our list.
- September 23, 2003
- Our summer trip to Oshkosh left us with so many stories to tell. Today is the
first aircraft we will feature over the next while, this one being the top of our
list.
- September 22, 2003
- Bit of a problem, today's story on the Doghide trails contains only one of the
four QuickTime VR panoramas produced, the problem is which one to show you.
- September 21, 2003
- The process of making this a better and easier web site to access and use is
an ongoing one. If you have some problems or some suggestions send
them along.
- September 20, 2003
- Ensign has not posted on other Saturdays but today we want get these stories
to you.
- September 19, 2003
- Another injury downtown this week as a senior citizen falls and is injured on
the uneven walks, in the case it was in front of the Credit Union, that sidewalk
was only installed last summer.
- September 18, 2003
- Saskatchewan News posts the same stories but
has fewer links from its front page, however it loads faster than does Ensign.
- September 17, 2003
- Today we have cleaned up the archive business with calendar dates to access past
stories.
- September 16, 2003
- The same sex marriage story just won't go away so here we go again.
- September 15, 2003
- 42
- September 14, 2003
- Turned out two QuickTime VR cubes today and will soon be able to post them for
you to see.
- September 12, 2003
- We will not be posting Saturday but will be back in business Sunday.
- September 11, 2003
- Sorry, ran out of time with yesterday's two last stories but onward and upward.
Today we return Ensign to its standard colours and drop the slow loading background.
- September 10, 2003
- Technical progress on new virtual reality software progressing, used today in
the Oshkosh panorama.
- September 9, 2003
- Late today sorry about that!
- September 8, 2003
- Down again, second weekend in a row I grabbed some bug and was out of service
Saturday and Sunday, marginal today.
- September 5. 2003
- Have you got some summer vacation pictures you would like to share with others,
send them along with some explanation. We
can handle digital images of course but if you photo stills we can share those by
scanning and returning them to you.
- September 2, 2003
- Struck with a nasty but temporary illness that put me out of commission and unable
to post yesterday.
- February 21, 2003
- Today we hear and interesting story from the sea by Vancouver's Jeff Smith. This
is his first contribution to this site.
- February 20, 2003
- Hectic pace here lately. Web sites in the AM and this site in the evening.
- February 19, 2003
- Road trip to Aylsham today story tomorrow.
- February 18, 2003
- Web page development in full swing making the updates here later than expected
today.
- February 17, 2003
- The dull days with snow, whites on white are a photographic challenge that can
produce some very interesting results.
- February 16, 2003
- The concentration on the possible conflict in the Middle East is so important
right now and hard to put things in perspective.
- February 15, 2003
- This daily exercise of creating this web site is enormously rewarding when I
hear from readers, so tell us what you think
and what you would like. Music and multimedia are time consuming to produce but often
are ideal for getting messages across.
- February 14, 2003
- Valentines day, does that mean we write in red ink today?
- February 13, 2003
- The way this web site is organised visitors often do searches and enter the site
thinking that the story they found is a web site in itself which leads to some interesting
exchanges. A fellow tried to place an order for a large storage tank two days ago
and today we have a guy looking for help in fixing up a car and another seeking his
fortune.
- February 12, 2003
- From world issues, the economy to keeping the wheels turning on your wheel chair.
I think we cover the spectrum today.
February 11, 2003
Copy, reformat, reparticiant copy, erase, reformat, repartician, I think I finally
got it but nothing is ever perfect.
- February 10, 2003
- Sunday was a hardware day. The Webcam computer packed it in and it was sorted
out so it seemed like a good time to just keep going and clean up the main system.
Things went well, this has not always been the case lately.
- February 8, 2003
- With the web cam working its way into the normal
course of things its time to get on with other things.
- February 7, 2003
- If at first you don't succeed, try, cry, try, cry, try again. It has been a major
quest to get the web cam up and running, now fingers are cross to hope that the system
continues to function.
- February 6, 2003
- Low level of input today as I was tied up with web site projects and if all goes
well we should have the Ensign webcam up online tomorrow.
- February 5, 2003
- References: A serious problem, we want most articles to have support and whenever
possible include references in our material. The complexity of citing a reference
be it APA or MLA is confusing as we want to be able to show all references,
no matter the source, newspaper article, book, web site all in the same format. For
now that format is: Author, title, date, publisher. If it is archived on this site
so it remains current through time it will have (PDF) after the date.
- February 4, 2003
- Worry continues about the size of monitor and how it is set to view this web
site. We have moved to a 10" standard which is similar to CBC, CTV and other
news sites all are about the same size. Let us
know how things look on your screen.
- February 3, 2003
- If you have been getting your email through our server here in Tisdale you need
to contact me to sort of the minor change to your account name as we have moved to
another server. Email addresses affected are: shire.ca, and parklandterminal.com
- February 2, 2003
- Dangers lurk everywhere, my local email server bit the dust yesterday and in
my repair attempts I was able to destroy about a year's work in web site development
all not backed-up. That's why no posting yesterday, email and that server still down.
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January 30, 2003
- An attempt to cut back on "SPAM" through our server on Tuesday resulted
in a drastic reduction in flow of the garbage but it also nailed some legitimate
email. If you sent us something Tuesday or Monday night and haven't had a response
please send again we have removed the filter for now.
- January 29, 2003
- For the next while Ensign will continue to be updated in the afternoon and evening.
This gradual shift in work schedule is being prompted by an increase in web site
devellopment.
- January 28, 2003
- I had hoped to have had Mike Townsend's essay on the Motorcycle show up yesterday
but could not fit it into my time but we will have it today.
- January 27, 2003
- Yesterday we tried the first ten inch wide web pages and would like to know how you feel about the slightly wider size,
though monitors have increased in size since we began this site those using dial
up will feel the pinch downloading even large images.
- January 26, 2003
- Spent most of today working on the new thing for Ensign, looking good!
- January 25, 2003
- Yesterday's work was seriously disrupted as I entered into a conflict with an
inanimate object, a hard drive. Our plans are to have a pretty interesting technical
advancement to this web site over the weekend.
- January 24, 2003
- Yesterday's work was seriously disrupted as I entered into a conflict with an
inanimate object, a hard drive. Our plans are to have a pretty interesting technical
advancement to this web site over the weekend.
- January 23, 2003
- Hi Timothy·I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy keeping up with
the Tisdale news on your web site. I live on Vancouver Island ö in Cobble Hill to
be exact but my parents live in Tisdale so the visual news that you provide is appreciated.
They were part of the Senior Centre fund raising event today which Mum described
to me and with your description and pictures I almost felt like I had been there.
Keep up the good work÷it is fun for us. Thanks. Louise
Ketilson
- January 22, 2003
- Computer system mended, at least temporarily as we will install some redundant
storage on Thursday to make it a little more robust.
- January 21, 2003
- Damaged computer hard drive and disable for yesterday, still in recovery process
but hope to be able to get today's stories up.
- January 19, 2003
- Savage disappointment as all of yesterday's pictrures were lost.
- January 18, 2003
- Thanks for exposing "Moses". I agree that this
man is the one responsible for the chaos our country is in now, especially with our
medical system. How about exposing his off shore money!!Phyllis
Moffitt
- January 17, 2003
- Working on this web site is like beach combing sometimes you make sand castles
other times you discover rare treasures, but things are never the same.
- January 16, 2003
- Thank you for your recent
article on that troubled country. It got my attention and made me do
some digging on the coup back Apri l. I suppose from one angle I could say, "yawn,
yawn, plus ca change, pluse c'est la meme chose" Been there, done that. I was
in Caracas during the troubles of '58-'59 when democracy first saw daylight in that
country; my youngest sister was born there. I remember my Dad laughing about how
"Of Cabbages and Kings" by O. Henry was not a fantasy of a banana republic,
but a tale of Latin America with a thin skin of fiction to protect the guilty. But
I think that things have changed:--it's not just the multinationals involved now,
it's the whole military - industrial complex that Ike Eisenhauer warned us about.Lila Wagner
- January 15, 2003
- Ensign is now 715MB of data and it is all online.
- January 14, 2003
- As a follow up to yesterday's story on the electrical shortage at La Ronge the
power came on at 3:20 yesterday afternoon then went off at 5:00 then came back on
at 5:50 and has remained on, though everyone has cut back on usage.
- January 13, 2003
- Today's picture is recycled though we have images of the power line under construction
our archives are currently being re-organised and unavailable. We make every effort
to have fresh material each day but unfortunately that picture has been seen before.
- January 12, 2003
- Today was a time for cleaning up some of the infrastructure of this site, a never
ending battle.
- January 11, 2003
- You can see one of FTLComm's videos as we are now
streaming it on line.
- January 10, 2003
- The frontiers must always be challenged and for me its trying to get a handle
on Adobe Illustrator, bear with me.
- January 9, 2003
- Yesterday, Jessica Robinson's poem was the first time we have posted a poem on
this web site, would like to see more.
- January 8, 2003
- It must be something I ate, but yesterday I was incapacitated and still feel
pretty lousey but will try to get caught up with the stories that have been contributed.
- January 7, 2003
- Our server was off line yesterday as we are in the continual process of upgrading
and modifying things. We came back on line around 9:00 last night.
- January 6, 2003
- Today, a valiant attempt will be made to post as many of the stories as possible
that have been sent in but first some time for reflection.
- January 5, 2003
- It will take a while to bring up the level of material on this site as we work
our way into the cycle of a new year.
- January 4, 2003
- Been to Regina, Moose Jaw, Swift Current and Tompkins and back this is the longest
time since we bagan Ensign that I have not worked on a daily page, but is good to
be back.
- January 1, 2003
- Ensign will not post for Thursday, January 2 or Friday, January 3 but we will
be back in business on Saturday January 4. Happy New Year!
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December 31, 2002
- "Good morning, its 11:49."
"Is this a recording?"
"Yes it is."
The caller hung up.
- December 30, 2002
- Work on our main computer yesterday prevented us posting yesterday. It was time
to unload 6Gb of pictures.
- December 28, 2002
- If you see a picture you want to use on this web site contact
us, all images are posted at 72 dpi but higher resolution original images of
each picture exist.
- December 27, 2002
- This web site was designed for the text size in your browser to be set at the
smallest size (12 points) larger size text will mess up the placement of things and
in general reduce the amount of display on your screen.
- December 26, 2002
- All is quiet all is bright. No breakfast at Hannigan's today they were closed.
- December 25, 2002
- We will have three important political stories tomorrow but today its Peace on
Earth good will to men.
- December 24, 2002
- More Christmas lights up today tis the season.
- December 23, 2002
- Every so often it really pays to go back in history and see what happened or
at least what was reported as having happened. Notice the daily links to years past
in Ensign as we can go back and see what it was like since 1998.
- December 22, 2002
- Each year of this web site I have posted my predictions for the coming year,
if you got any ideas or would like to send in your own I would be glad to
get them.
- December 21, 2002
- We will be squeezing in Christmas over the next few days, will have a story or
two a day and pictures but things will be light for a while.
- December 20, 2002
- If you are using a "Hotmail" e-mail address I would suggest that you
consider an alternative. There are several places you can get e-mail addresses all
free ones have some sort of hook involved but there are many low cost (Sasktel $4.95/month)
ones you can get including SaskTel (1 800 727 5835)or Faster
Than Light Communications.
- December 19, 2002
- The server dropped the ball again last night for almost two hours. Looks like
some final adjustments have to be made but system working fine today. Watch out for
SaskTel's email server, it has been acting up yesterday with two outages during
the day.
- December 18, 2002
- We were off line last night and this morning, no known reason available. We have
updated the picture of the day pages accessed from the bottom of this page.
- December 17, 2002
- A little more than an editorial, today's story about the Ahenakew issue comes
from years of experience on reservations and in Western Canadian multicultural communities.
- Decmeber 16, 2002
- Nothing in yet but I expect to see some commentary this week about David Ahenikew's
loss of conscious thought reported in the Star Pheonix.
- December 15, 2002
- You may have noticed that we have altered this web site and dropped the frames
format. If you have a bookmark for "frontpg.html" it of course will no
longer work as that page is no longer active.
- Deccember 14, 2002
- Gosh I am still struggling to catch up. Have you been getting a build up in spam
lately? I am getting about 100 pieces a day this week.
- December 13, 2002
- Just not enough time yesterday to plow through projects intended but will try
to get caught up today.
- December 12, 2002
- That cursed flu is making a serious comeback, can a person have too much fun?
- December 11, 2002
- Today we take a look at the process of looking.
- December 10, 2002
- Either food poisoning or a bug, one way or another this is not a happy editor
today, but. . . the worst is over.
- December 9, 2002
- About two hundred people drop by this web site and Saskatchewan News each and every day. Most visit around
4:00 in the afternoon to Ensign and early in the morning at Saskatchewan News. Stats
show visitors from all over the world and many from schools in the United States.
If you see something interesting or there is something you would like to see let us know.
- December 8, 2002
- Where ever possible we try to support the opinions expressed on this site with
references. These references are valuable as they often enhance the story and give
you the opportunity to have more information with which to evaluate the opinion expressed.
No attempt is made to depict coinciding opinions as we want you to have the right
to make the final evaluation on validity, so very often articles here do not reflect
the opinions of the editor.
- December 7, 2002
- You are reading an unusual website right now our logs show that most visitors
to this site stick around for fifteen minutes a visit. On the Internet this is truly
amazing.
- December 6, 2002
- This web site has established itself as a site that thrives on images. If you
have an image you think others would enjoy seeing or you want to share send
it along.
- December 5
- Heah, I thought I was catching up yesterday then I got involved in testing software
and a little animation thing, but today no fooling around, onward and upward. Check
our letters page today.
- December 4, 2002
- Unable to get all of yesterday's stories up but will make an effort today to
try and get most of the new stories posted. Two contributors have provided us with
their views on the auditor generals reports and we
welcome your comments on these or any other stories.
- December 3, 2002
- Once again we are running late today as we have a project in progress. Will be
late tonight before today's stories are posted.
- December 2, 2002
- Received a couple of interesting letters about stories over the last few days
so check out the letters.
- December 1, 2002
- Today we have an opportunity to deal with a theme that touches us all, as we
deal with what some might consider a handicap the source of strength that makes life
more bearable. A couple of thing stories just for good measure.
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November 30, 2002
- The blend of local images and stories, political commentary and information continues
to be a puzzle that we will just have to keep fighting with. Ensign attempts to do
all of these things but the limitation of time has prevented setting up departments
and making sure we cover the bases. But most important of all it is your comments
and messages that will determine what is done for content.
- November 29, 2002
- So that was a fair trial for a week I have been linking each page together and
doing a side bar. This is done manually and until we move to an automated posting
system, it looks like the last you will see of this time consuming page display system.
- November 28, 2002
- We have talked a lot on this site about medicare its time hold our breath as
the Romanow report sinks in.
- November 27, 2002
- Many are not aware that the content on this web site is shared with a simpler
web site "Saskatchewan News" the top
of the page picture is unique to that page each day.
- November 26, 2002
- Sorry about the front page being a mess, this is just one of those things that
happens with HTML at times and with tables interacting with your browser. The new
story (article) format is evolving and we will soon work out the quirks with it.
- November 25, 2002
- Off to a late start today as it is time to tune of my Tisdale server though it
does not affect this site it does handle my email. Yesterday began the first new
look of regular story pages would enjoy hearing
your comments.
- November 24, 2002
- New server is ticking along just fine now to get the content caught up.
- November 23, 2002
- Ensign on late weekend schedule today, sorry about that.
- November 22, 2002
- We are now on our new server and appear to be fine, it might be a good idea to
throw out the old bookmark and create a new one. Any problems get in touch with me.timothy@ftlcomm.com
- November 21, 2002
- Over this weekend Ensign will be completing its migration to another server so
if it does not come up with the present bookmark you have note my email address contact
me so we can help sort things out.timothy@ftlcomm.com
- November 20, 2002
- Our server has come down with a bad case of hard drive failuritis and we have
had some outages and expect more until we are able to slip over to the new server.
Hang on!
- November 19, 2002
- A surprising difficulty arose today in our server limiting some stories from
being accessed, hope to see the problem solved by 6:00PM
- Novmeber 18, 2002
- I seem always to be so pressed for time, perhaps I want to get more than is possible
into this site each day but in time our plan is to increase the level of automation.
Right now all items and updates on this site are done manually.
- November 17, 2002
- Time for you to learn about transferring files from your computer or from another
to your own without using e-mail attachments.
- November 16, 2002
- Each day more and more material is poked into this website as it continues to
accumulate and retain each story. If you see something that needs correcting let us know, no need saving mistakes.
- November 15, 2002
- Real audio and Microsoft media player both are promising multimedia
network tools but both lack the simplicity and reliability of QuickTime.
QuickTime works each and every time so it is worth downloading it and installing
it in your computer.
- November 14, 2002
- Tell us about your Internet problems. If you are having connection or e-mail
problems with SaskTel let us know.
- November 13, 2002
- Carol Miskosky referring to the pictures psted Sunday, says "I think possibly
I would use these
items to hold my sewing thread cones and poke needles in the sponge." The
song for today is Shania's newest.
4:30 - suppliment - Melville won the provincial semi-final 35 to 7
- November 1, 2002
- Someone new and someone away for a while in Ensign today. Welcome to the contribution
from Christine Whitakers of Edgeley and after a long absence Michael Townsend gives
us a review of radio personality Stuart McLean.
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October 31, 2002
- Gosh it is Halloween again, perhaps some day I will have matured enough to figure
out what it is all about until then I will give in to extorsion. Click on the arrow
to hear Barbara Streisand sing about perspective.
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