Kyle Thomas

The Website of Kyle Thomas (KyleWith)

Yesterday had its excitment while I slept

Yesterday was full of 2 interesting findings, even though I slept all day.

The one thing I go excited about was some national recognition YkOnline received. Here is what happened. At about 6pm I got up and opened up my MacBook as I always do and checked my stats for both websites. When I saw that YkOnline had almost tripled the amount of hits it was normally gets I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was weird as the only post I had published in 5 days was about Yellowknife’s Twitter community and didn’t think it would get very much recognition and well I was right. As I scrolled down to see where the hits were being referred from I saw that most of them were coming from Miss604.com. If you don’t know about Miss604, you should check it out. Rebecca Bollwitt blogs about Vancouver and has become very famous do it, needless to say she is an idol of mine. So when I saw all these hits coming from her site, I quickly scrambled over there. I was delightfully surprised to read in one of her latest posts she linked back to YkOnline. Not only that she explained that we (as in Yellowknifers) have TweetUps and have a directory of all the Tweeps. I was so happy to see that not only YkOnline was getting recognized but also our Twitter community.

The other interesting thing about yesterday was what I found on my truck tires. Orange lines, could they be markings done by By-Law Officers. Read my post of YkOnline about what I think.

There you have it.

An Update and Things to do.

Well it is Monday and I go back to work tonight but I need to get somethings done before hand.

  • Figure out what classes I’m going to take at school.
  • Call school register for those classes.
  • Go to NNSL get my %50 off web subscription.
  • Write a YkClassifieds review on YkOnline.
  • Write up a CanLiving post on my Bike.
  • Continue work on the layout of YkOnline.
  • Update clients sites The Rock and SideDoor.
  • Measure and cut foam for seats in my camper.
  • I’m sure I have forgotten something

Over the weekend the Trade Show was on and I was there taking some pictures and meeting new people. It was a really good time and it was good to see so many people coming out. I wrote about it on YkOnline.ca as well as posted some of my pictures.

On Sunday after the trade show, Mothers day lunch, and when the sun finally come back I went out to the Camp Ground and got some spring photos. You can find them all [HERE] and some below.

I Think I Went Over the Edge

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am officially crazy. Yes!

That is all….

No I’m just kidding but that’s not to say what goes threw my head and what I do isn’t beyond normal. So in the last couple months while trying to take steps forward, I have probably managed to step back. Last October I started off with one blog, The Bushman, it was going to be my personal blog and so it will be. Sometime in February I came up with the marvelous idea of starting a new blog about something more direct. Something that would bring in traffic for one general thing; rather than stuff from every end of the spectrum. CanLiving was born a month later, My Canadian Living Blog. The blog is about things I do on a day to day bases, my experiences, etc. That site is slow coming but it is slowly shaping and I see a good future for it.

That would bring us to mid April, when I registered the domain ykonline.ca. I don’t even remember why I registered it. When it only cast $9 to register a domain I don’t hesitate very often as that is cheaper than a meal out these days. I continued on blogging at my 2 blogs, more frequently at The Bushman and even more specifically blogging about Yellowknife. I noticed that I took to writing about this place I call home, whether about local companies online or my opinion on that weeks Yellowknifer. What I have always wanted to do is make a blog the best it can be, so I saw an opportunity to make something. The other day I installed a fresh version of WordPress under YkOnline and imported all my “Yellowknife” related posts onto it.

The Plan

CanLiving will stay the same it will not change. It will continue to grow and unfold. Watch out for more Kooking with Kyle

YK Online will be where I write about anything Yellowknife. A Pretty simple concept. There will be reviews, pictures, opinions. You could even be on there if you wanted. There is no real plan for this blog, I will just keep doing what I was doing before and let it take me where ever. The interesting part will be when I go to school in the fall, I haven’t quite figured out what will happen to it then. We will cross that bridge when we get there.

The Bushman will be more me again. What I’m working on, what I’m thinking about, what is bothering me. Personal stuff. Simple as that.

Okay now you can tell me I am crazy. Its ok I can take it. We’re all searching for something, this is just how I do it.