Opinion

Warren Miller's World

Christmas has been stale for me over the last decade or so. Either being in school or working endless hours seems to take up so much time that the two days that I got off around Christmas seemed more like a weekend than anything else.

There are many examples of how things went wrong in 2001, but for sheer political dexterity one has only to look at the Canadian Alliance.

Blizzard memories

There are literally hundred of software programs and applications out there that are free for the taking that are absolute must-haves.

In the last 12 months the country has gone to war, the economy has nose-dived, the provincial government has announced massive layoffs and huge cutbacks in services, and the worst storm in years has paralyzed the Lower Mainland.

After four years of speculation and suspense, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky finally released the names of Team Canada for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

In terms of early Christmas presents for Whistler, this week's announcements by the 2010 Bid Corporation sit somewhere between the promise an absentee parent might make to a child to do better next year and a lump of coal.

Finance Minister Paul Martin introduced his budget Monday in Ottawa, and in the process put a little more flesh on the bones of the 2010 Olympic bid.

Windows XP has been around for over a month now, so I thought it might be a good time to talk about why it?s the best version of the worlds most popular operating system.