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Formidable group of Alaskan writers gathers to discuss their craft

...farm or a farmer with a sword; not to be bowing to some dictator; not to be working in some factory in China making computer chips; but to be at the millennium a writer in Alaska...it's amazing."Amen, Mr. Heacox. Amen. And that is why...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-06-07/formidable-group-alaskan-writers-gathers-
Art
U.S. needs smarter driver's licenses

...making them similar from state to state and embedding a computer chip that would let police compare the cardholder's thumbprint...databases to high-tech driver's license cards with computer chips, bar codes and biometric identifiers, perhaps thumbprints...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/122001/opE_edboard.shtml
Opinion
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...installing a statewide ``intelligent transportation system.'' That multi-project plan includes things like a computer chip system that allows truckers to have their load weighed without stopping on a scale. Computers would do the work...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/042600/Loc_funds.shtml
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...get bumped occasionally, you catch an elbow once in awhile, you get kicked once in awhile.'' Each runner had a computer chip attached to his or her shoelace that gave five-kilometer split times and an exact time at the finish. The chip also...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/050299/Spo_boston.shtml
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...equipment is likely to be radars and radios. There's a remote chance radar equipment might have a date-sensitive computer chip, he said. Vessel owners will asked to check with the manufacturer about that. An aerial tanker, a state helicopter...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060999/Loc_lbriefs.shtml
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...wood or metal that were silent unless you whacked your brother on the head with them. But today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say ``your child.'' MY child...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080600/Ope_barry.shtml
Professional angler gears up for competitive season

...better, maps that list GPS coordinates. "I want GPS-accurate maps or a software mapping program or a map on a (computer) chip that I can put into my laptop computer," he said. Such technology is out there and evolving, and anglers are getting...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/012504/out_fish.shtml
Outdoors
Nome becomes rural trash disposal hub

...handed over to Schnitzer Steel's metal recycling facility in Anchorage. E-waste, including computer monitors, computer chips and other electronic devices, will make up much of the garbage hauled from these communities. Rainwater can cause...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030310/sta_570179813.shtml
News
Y2k bug pestering prison system, ferry

...Year 2000 computer problem, also known as Y2K or the Millennium Bug, affects computers and other equipment with computer chips that can't tell the year 2000 from 1900 or some other century because they use two-digit dates. Some computers...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/020199/Loc_y2k.html
Local
The more things change . . .

...have a Y2K problem here,'' MacKinnon said, referring to the problems that may occur New Year's Day because many computer chips use only the last two digits of a year and may confuse 2000 with 1900 or the year 0. MacKinnon has stockpiled cases...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030999/Biz_laundry2.html
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