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It has been an interest of mine to look at the job market up here in Yukon since I arrived. One trend that I noticed was the resourcefulness of Yukoners. They really don't work only one job. There are many people that I have met in my time here that have a full time day job (government or larger private sector) but then in the evenings they have a small scale (i.e. one person) shop that may service some sort of IT need.

These "off hours" shops typically service the small independent market in computer servicing (hardware, patches, Mr. Fix-It kind of work) and in web design services (design heavy micro brochure sites).

I would like to put this question to the community: with the size of the market in Yukon and the "lifestyle" decisions to live in Yukon, is the market starting to become too full of low cost options that will become unsustainable in the long term? I am primarily thinking of the entrepreneurs that do these services as a full time job and are not "off-hour-prenuers" when I ask about sustainability.

I was interested by the recent question of ISP control. In the first, it was a well-formed question instead of a complaint regarding internet usage rules. Secondly, there are some good thoughts that I align with in regards to what an ISP should offer as customer packages.

In the world of software engineering there is an underlying assumption that people can, and do, talk to each other. Mostly, we do.

The world of complex software requires that many individuals from many groups have fully functional N-way communication processes in place. These processes can utilize many tools, email is frequently at the top of the list, but why?

from a cat named Evan.

Is there any way out there in the universe to add database support for, oh, say Oracle to PHP *without* having to recompile the farking thing?