Opinion

Nearly two weeks after the opening ceremonies, and countless beach volleyball matches, we have learned a few things from Beijing and the Chinese hosts of the 2008 Summer Olympics. We’ve heard a lot about Beijing’s smog.

For a tech writer, I fall behind the times with embarrassing regularity — which at least means that readers will generally have some idea what the hell I’m talking about.

What’s the hurry?

If the American presidential election seems to have dragged on forever, even though the parties’ nomination meetings have yet to take place, Whistler’s municipal election is just the opposite.

My bank recently sent my wife and I a brrand new Asus EEE PC after swittching service plans or somthing. We're not really sure why to tell you the truth, but we're keeping it.

Despite the litany of criticism I’ve received in recent weeks for my “anti-Intrawest” stance — and I’ll re-iterate: I don’t “hate” Intrawest, I just don’t buy into its propaganda blindly — those who have read my stories over the last 25 years know th

Re: How's this a good deal? and Peter Pan School of Sustainability (Pique letters Aug. 7) Well said to both Jill Almond and Jamie Pike for their respective comments.

How well do we know the people we are trying to attract to Whistler? For that matter, how well do we know ourselves? The lead story in the business section of Saturday’s Vancouver Sun described how great weather, new attractions and increased regiona

Not that there’s any good time for a telemarketer to call, but they always seem to pick the worst moments — dinnertime, sleeping-in-Saturday-morning time, in-the-washroom-but-expecting-an-important-call-so-I-run-out-wearing-a-towel time.

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candle