Opinion

There’s always been a lot of money in technology and the Internet, but only recently have those profits extended to include websites themselves. It took Amazon.

She grew up in a community where people went up into the mountains for a variety of reasons. And much of them had nothing to do with sports.

Well, I am writing this letter now that I feel safe in my own village again. The “crowd” from the “unmentionable city” has left and I have walked back out my door.

Walking through the quiet streets of Whistler at 5 a.m. one morning last week, to catch the 5:30 a.m. Greyhound bus, I was appalled to see so many bright lights inside 90 per cent of Whistler Village stores.

In November there will be civic elections across B.C., and a presidential election in the United States. Next May there will be a provincial election in B.C. Between now and then there may well be a federal election.

Peter Andrews loves Sun Valley. He's had a place there for the last 35 years. Says investing in it was the best thing he ever did for his family. "I love the weather.

What a difference a couple of months and a lot of homework makes.

It seems like just yesterday I logged on to the World Wide Web for the first time (yes, I’m that old), with its dynamic HTML-based pages rising head and shoulders above all the other Internet protocols out there like Gopher, Telnet and Lynx.

I appreciate Councillor Zeidler’s comments that a “China-Tibet conversation is worth having in Whistler” (Pique May 1, 2008).

It was Boyd’s show. The camp was all his idea and no one else’s. And he put the thing together with the same quiet determination that led him to the top of the World Cup downhill standings 20 years ago.