Australia's Steven Bradbury just became the first Australian to ever win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. He won the 1,000 meter short-track speed skating finals by positioning himself perfectly. On the last turn, the other 4 competitors, including alleged US Olympic Trial race-fixer Apolo Anton Ohno, jostled each other and fell. Bradbury, who trailed the pack, by a good 30 feet, skated unopposed across the finish line.
All through the aftermath of the race and the medal ceremony, Bradbury was beaming. It was a great sight. It turns out he is also recovering from a life-threatening training injury. Things like this are what make me watch and enjoy the Olympics - not watching a bunch of pros play hockey.
Note: CBC Sports Online has better coverage of this than ESPN.
11:30:44 PM Earlier tonight, I stumbled across
Jeff Cheney's web service for
Fresh Favorites. I've made a couple minor edits and have added it in the right column. Great stuff!
11:10:50 PM I've added archive links underneath the calendar. It uses the macro from
Going Crazy With Macros. Currently, both the link and file are hard-coded with the dates.
9:56:02 PM "
I come not to bury HTML, but to praise it appeared in the winter 1995 edition of, the now defunct, X-RAY magazine. I think it has held up fairly well. And it's interesting to look at what the web was like back then. At least how I saw it..." (Courtesy:
Jeff Cheney)
5:07:13 PM Charles M. Schulz. "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?" (Courtesy:
Quotes of the Day)
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