Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
by Cate Eales
Appeared December 10, 2009 on castanet.net
Track your packages, track Santa, and listen to some
holiday tracks. This week’s column is full of Christmas Cheer!
Christmas Music
I am a big fan of traditional Christmas music, so I set out to find good,
free Christmas music online. There is a wide selection!
The Garritan Community Christmas website has been producing a Christmas
album each year since 2004. Each of those albums is
available at the
website, here.
You can listen to the music online, or you can download
any or all of the songs from any album. Bonus! They’ve included the cover
art so you can make your own CD labels.
You can get more music from the
Feels Like
Christmas site, here. They offer both traditional and contemporary
music, much of it contributed by independent artists. There are also a few
stories available for download.
If you just want to listen and don’t want to download, try one of the
internet radio stations. North Pole Radio steams Christmas music 365 days
a year, but you don’t have to wait until July to decide that what you need
is a little Christmas right this very minute.
Point your
browser here, and click on the “Listen Now” button.
AccuHolidays offers music grouped by “channels.” The “Silent Night”
channel offers just about every version of Silent Night you could ever
want. Pick “Old Fashioned Christmas,”, “Holiday Classical,” “Reggae” or
any of a dozen others to specialize, or pick “Seasons Greetings” for a
mishmash of all kinds of Christmas music. You can exclude an artist from
any channel, so if you don’t want to hear Alvin and the Chipmunks, you
don’t have to. Oh, and if you hear something you like, there are links to
take you right to Amazon.com where you can buy the CD while still
listening to the music.
Listen here.
Package Tracking
Expecting something in the mail or by courier? If you have a tracking
number, you can probably track it at
PackageMapping.com. When you enter a tracking number from UPS, USPS,
FedEx, DHL, and --- Yes! --- Canada Post you’ll get a map of your
package’s progress. I love the little package with wings on it, heading
for Kelowna!
Santa Tracking
I know I mention this site every year, but it’s just so much fun I’m going
to mention it again.
NORAD
tracks Santa, and you can track Santa, too. If you go to the site now,
you’ll see the Countdown to Track Santa. You can visit Santa’s Village to
play some games, and as Christmas Eve approaches, you’ll be able to track
Santa on that site, or on Google Earth.
The Missing Column
Readers who subscribe to this column should have received last week’s
column as usual. Castanet readers missed out, however, because I goofed up
and didn’t get the column to Castanet by deadline. My apologies to all
concerned. If you want to read last week’s column, it’s available on my
website, here.
Enjoy the holiday season, but try not to have as much fun as
these
guys!
Links
Garritan Community Christmas
http://garritan.com/Xmas.html
Feels Like Christmas
http://feelslikechristmas.com/
North Pole Radio
http://www.northpoleradio.com/
AccuHolidays
http://www.accuradio.com/holidays/
PackageMapping.com
http://www.packagemapping.com/
NORAD tracks Santa
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html
Missing Links, Missing Recycle Bin, Antivirus Tips
http://rlis.com/columns/column225.htm
Must Be Santa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k
Computer Care Kelowna
http://computercarekelowna.com
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