It is pretty cool seeing Whistler mapped by Google Street View. The runs looks quite difference in street view than when I am skiing on it. I guess when I am skiing, I was too focus on not falling down. I didn’t take a good look at the scenery on both side of the run.
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games is only 8 days away. I don’t feel particularly exciting about the Olympic although I am living in the hosting city. Here are my top ten reasons why I don’t like Vancouver hosting the Olympic.
None of the Winter Olympic events is interesting, except Ice Hockey
I could not get any Olympic tickets, so it makes no difference to me whether or not it is in Vancouver. I am watching it on TV anways
Millions of tourists comes to town disturb my normal life. It is a lot harder to make restaurant reservations and everything cost more during the Olympic
The road closure in the city makes rush hour traffic across the city a nightmare.
The Canadian team uniform really ugly. Roots definitely have better designers than The Bay.
The Olympic will blow a black hole in the city’s budget. Prepare for tax raise after the Games
Most of the Olympic events are held during the day when I am at work. My productivity would greatly suffer during that two weeks
The Olympic mascots does not make sense and there are four of them. Why don’t they simply use a beaver or a Canadian moose
The Sea to Sky Highway only got a half-ass upgrade. It should have 4 lanes all the way from Vancouver to Whistler and bypass all the traffic lights in Squamish
and most important of all,
The Sea to Sky Highway is closed during the Games and no one can drive to Whistler. Olympic interrupts my ski season!
For a long time, I was wondering the decision of PMC buying Passive, a PON chip maker. Even though the Passive division did not bring in as much revenue as we expected, but it seems it’s the right acquisition after all. If Marvell and Broadcom are trying to get into the same market, it must be a good market to be in. With the Passive acquisition, PMC is ahead in the game and becomes the market leader of the moment.
My experience agrees with the articles that many Indian engineers are not as good as they claim to be. But I don’t think a new standardize test will solve the problem. The test only would work until some PREP school cracked the marking scheme and training loads of high marks idiots.