Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

The more things change…

...the more they stay the same. Sigh...

Controversy denies South African team Olympic shot

 The National Olympic Committee of South Africa earlier this year excluded the predominantly white men's hockey squad -- the reigning African champions -- from the Sydney Games, igniting a protest that included debate in Parliament.

But the committee refused to yield. Its president, Sam Ramsamy, said the hockey squad didn't have enough black players to represent South Africa and couldn't erase doubts it would improve on its 10th place finish at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Canada Wins Gold in Men’s Triathalon!

CANOE: Canada's Whitfield wins men's triathlon" -- Canadian Simon Whitfield ran the race of his life Sunday, sprinting past Stephan Vuckovic of Germany with the finish line in sight to win gold in the inaugural men's triathlon at the Olympics."

Simon Whitfield lives here in Victoria! That is just so cool!

WAP Forum moves toward Net standards

WAP Forum moves toward Net standards -- "The next major version of WAP, a protocol for providing Internet-based data services on mobile phones, will complete a migration to XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) and TCP "