Opinion

There has been lots of interest in Highway 99 since the Ministry of Transportation released its list of options for upgrading the road back in June, but railway may still play a role in the final solution.

Pretend it’s 1975 and Whistlerites are asked to describe a shared vision of the future. In fact, the few hundred people who lived here then, and a few Lower Mainland residents who owned Whistler property, were asked that.

In a recent article in Wired News ( www.wired.com ) it was revealed that Major League Baseball is looking into a new technology that uses high speed cameras placed at different angles around home plate to keep track of strikes and balls.

If the dot-bomb fiasco of a few years ago is any indication, computer techies know a lot more about programming than they do about economics. Etoys.

The Whistler Housing Authority has been nominated for a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation award for its Beaver Flats employee housing project.

I can’t remember a summer this hot, although to be fair my short-term memory is not all that great. Let’s just say I can’t remember a summer this hot since I moved to Whistler three years ago.

Timing is everything, as a Swiss philosopher/watchmaker once said. At the first Whistler.

The sports of the Olympics fall into two categories: those that are decided by universal measures – who went fastest, highest or scored the most goals – and those that are judged by human beings.

With computers linking everything to everything else, it’s safe to assume that a lot of your personal information is out there somewhere, floating in cyberspace.

Gravity is a tricky customer.