With a quick jaunt on down to CBC.ca, you’ll find http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/livevideo. From there, you can get streaming coverage of olympic events, or, on my girlfriend’s laptop and our useless wireless internet, a nice Chinese-looking background and a spinning “loading” icon. Forever. Sorry for missing this morning’s events. Strep throat struck in the night, leaving me paralyzed. And husky-voiced.Come on, CBC. The little “thinking” icon on the tab in Firefox is still spinning. No video.
This article appears in Aug 7-13, 2008.