This entry is to explain what's going on in the posts from Oct 22 -- 25 and Dec 5 -- 6. In the fall and again today, with last week's pics, I managed to corrupt the link to a graphic. This in turn disabled the edit function for the post with the graphic and the one before it.

There's nothing I can do to fix it. I can see the broken link but can't change or repost it.

Right-click on the broken link and choose Properties -- you'll be able to see the first part of the mess that supposed to be the link (URL) for the picture.

I've got a call into my friends at blogger

I'm sure Evan Williams and his crew will be able to help me out. They've have done a remarkable job of providing a "post from anywhere there's a phone jack and a dial tone" medium.

I joked last year that it once was, "whatever happens on the road, stays on the road." Now it's "whatever happens on the road, goes on the web."

This year it was true, where I haven't broken the links ;-)

Another picture from the start of the Women's Downhill and Super G.

This time with the FIS Start Referee, Eric Henry -- barely visible inside the tent.

Eric is a great guy and treated us to daily weather reports from Sydney, Australia over the Race Jury Channel before each race. It was +41 C one day!



He and his wife Jackie travel from Down Under each year to work the races at skilouise.com

Both are great people and big contributors to the success of each year's races at the Lake.

I'm still trying to find some time to edit and post some more pictures from my week at Lake Louise, but it might be a while. In the next week I've got trips to New York, NY and Ventura, CA.

On top of that, I've just completed the intake survey for my next course at OISE/UT CTL 1799H SV Special Topics in Curriculum: Enhancing Holistic Learning with Computer Technology with Dr S. Karsten.

This will be the first course that I've taken that uses both OISENet's First Class and WebKF -- so far it has been one or the other -- for course content. Checking two sources for posts from colleagues may take a little getting used to.

I've come to prefer First Class although I must say that the "look and feel" of WebKF has improved since I saw it last.

"Classes" don't begin until the beginning of next month, but my experience in the couple of online courses I've taken to date has taught me that getting a jump on the action is always advisable.

I'm also thinking long and hard about my decision to take two courses in the spring semester.

Two courses and a nearly constant travel schedule may not work -- I've got slightly less than a month make up my mind.

As always, watch this space for updates.

More about this year's World Cup Downhill at Lake Louise.

The track at the Lake is for the women what Kitzbühel is for the Men == the hardest course on the circuit, and pretty much the limit of human physical and mental endurance.

Travelling at speeds in excess of 100 KPH on skis takes something not many people have. Some veterans on the Net Crew at the race sport shirts with the following:

Slalom and GS and are disciplines . . . downhill is a cult.