On Failing My Nunavut Readership

I recently installed "SiteMeter" on this blog, a handy-dandy little web gadget that keeps track of when, where and how people are viewing this web page (if you're curious, you can check it out by clicking on the "SiteMeter" icon at the bottom of the sidebar). It's basically soft-core statistics porn, but the results are sometimes interesting. Like today, I learned that someone in Iqaluit (which is the capital of Nunavut, for those of you lacking in northern exposure) found my blog through Google by using the search terms "ski doo freestyle factory recalls". Thus far, the only place that ski-doos have cropped up in this blog is in my Skids in the Hall entry. Given the nature of his/her search, the anonymous Iqaluit surfer was no doubt disappointed with the content of my post. That doesn't trouble me so much as the thought that this person wanted to know whether their Ski Doo Freestyle is defective (perhaps dangerously) and my blog offered them no assistance in getting to the bottom of this (and having a potentially defective ski-doo is no laughing matter in Iqaluit).

So, on the remote chance that that reader ever visits this blog again, I apologize for my lack of expertise on ski-doo recalls. I hope that some other web page helped you solve your problem. If I could offer any advice, I would, but my Dad sold our ski-doo back in the mid-1980s. I don't even remember if it was a Freestyle. Really, I suppose Google is at fault here too, because it was their search engine that led this reader astray in the first place. But with a big corporate outfit like that, you're not going to get a sincere apology for wasting your time. Nope. It's just us insignificant web peons who have a heart for stuff like that.

I hope that I can overcome this incident among my Nunavut readership, however I would imagine bad word of mouth is the kiss of death for blogs in that place. Oh well. I can only hope that my first readers from the Yukon and the N.W.T. will have a more positive experience.