I can’t say enough about how awesome it is that CNBC is showing curling every day. I love curling.
But more importantly, holy crap, have you seen snowboard cross? That’s my new favorite event, replacing short track speed skating. I wish that was on all day.
I know everybody likes figure skating, but I don’t. And I hate how I can’t watch any olympics without seeing it. If everybody is so keen on the figure skating, the I wish they would put that on one channel and everything else on a different channel so I could watch that other channel.
This works for Netscape too. If you type “about:config” in the address bar, it will open up a page that contains every option that is set for your browser. If you double click on any of the lines you can edit the value. This is particularly useful to edit options that you can’t get to any other way, but good luck finding them in the huge list. Good to know though.
Shane Halbach 
Ooh, thanks for the Firefox tip. I just switched a few months ago from Opera, which was giving me HELL. I do miss the mouse gestures, but Firefox is a better browser overall I think.
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You should move to China. No figure skating. Which is really funny, because in the weeks leading up to the big games, every time I turned on the TV, the sports channel was showing replays of the 2002 Olympic figure skating. But I’ve only seen one small clip from this year’s competition! It’s going on at something like 4am here, and I guess they show it Live, so if you’re a normal human being, you will never turn on the TV during the event.
The only competitions I’ve been able to see at all so far are: speed skating, cross-country skiing, and ski jump. Oh, and I think we saw about 3 minutes of luge yesterday. That’s it. No hockey, no curling, no moguls, no snowboarding, no bobsled, no figure skating.
When the Olympics aren’t going on in Italy, they’re not showing them here. Apparently the “tape it and show it during the waking hours” concept hasn’t quite caught on here. I actually really miss Olympic coverage (even the endless “character” pieces on all our great American athletes).
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I know there are mouse gesture plug-ins for firefox, but I make no claims as to how good they are.
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I would die without the Olympics. If I don’t get my manditory 4 hours a day of curling, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself.
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