Opinion

It’s hard being a technology writer on a budget, writing for a small-town newspaper that doesn’t get sent samples of all the latest gadgets for testing.

Away with the manger The manger in Pemberton provided quite the topic for discussion in December.

The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics finished 2007 with a flurry of announcements and good-news headlines. And VANOC deserves hearty congratulations for many of its accomplishments.

A solution for all This letter was addressed to the mayor and council. A copy was forwarded to Pique for publication.

She was The Bond Girl. A long-legged acrobatic skier from England who’d learned her stuff on a plastic-covered slope in Southampton (with a whopping vertical drop of 110 metres), Julia Snell was a sophisticated young athlete with a promising future.

If for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us; please get out of the way.

It’s been a big year for technology, no question.

The earth is loaded with rare and precious materials, from tiny grains of radioactive isotopes to pouches of hand-picked saffron — pound for pound one of the most expensive spice and dyes on the planet, with prices varying from $1,000 to $10,000 for

Some seriously good people among us Last week, a cheery individual stopped into my shop with a tin of homemade shortbreads and a Santa hat. We had never met, but that was beside the point — she was just out spreading some holiday spirit.

There’s something pretty cool about a woman who celebrates her 50 th birthday by inviting all her friends to participate in a Loonie mountain bike race before launching her party proceedings.