Opinion

I'm not a big fan of the mouse. I use it, I couldn't live without it, but if I can do something without using the mouse I will.

As their names were called last Wednesday night, each of the medalists in the women's standing giant slalom jumped onto the podium and raised her arms high into the air.

First of all I would like to say congratulations to the locals, volunteers and people of Whistler for putting on an amazingly successful Olympic Winter Games.

He bopped into Wild Willie's ski shop with his eyes as round as saucers. He still wore his forerunner's bib and downhill suit. A silly grin was spread across his grizzled features. "Wow," he said, his sandpapery voice almost dreamy in tone. "Wow.

Apple has made a fortune in recent years by being first to market with new types of technologies, leaving the rest of the tech world to play catch-up. The iPod is one example, the iPhone another.

As the McKeevers, the Woolstencrofts and other Canadian Paralympians win medals this week, Whistler continues to bask in the "afterglow" of a successful Olympics and Paralympics. We feel pretty good about ourselves.

Well! It came, it made a big splash and now it's moving on to Russia.

For some reason my power bill keeps going up and up, despite the fact that my home is small, insulated on both sides by other homes, and this winter has been extremely mild.

"That crazy, liberating, wild feeling of gliding over the snow... there's nothing that compares. The same goes for the hot chocolate at the end of the day." - Khyber Rob At first we just nodded.

In the first page of his speech introducing the provincial budget last week Finance Minister Colin Hansen referred to the "incredible success so far of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, which many are hailing as a turning point in B.C.