NPR shares our frustration.

And I quote, since I live in LA, “West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever “live” coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actually are. What this means is that even if NBC is showing “live” coverage of its big events in New York, which is across the continent from Vancouver, it delays them three hours for Seattle, which is less than three hours south of Vancouver.”

UGH, Not that I wanted to watch curling, but trying to find the USA/CANADA hockey game, if I actually knew it was on, and when it might be “aired”, and on “what channel”. What a mess.

Read more here:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/02/nbcs_olympic_coverage_manages.html

You DON’T have to think about yucky things like DNS Servers, but if you do, this one is pretty darn slick.

http://www.opendns.com/

Here are the DNS Servers:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

http://ugleah.com/Work.asp

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information). Charles can act as a man-in-the-middle for HTTP/SSL communication, enabling you to debug the content of your HTTPS sessions.Charles simulates modem speeds by effectively throttling your bandwidth and introducing latency, so that you can experience an entire website as a modem user might (bandwidth simulator).Charles is especially useful for Adobe Flash developers as you can view the contents of LoadVariables, LoadMovie and XML loads. Charles also has native support for Flash Remoting (AMF0 and AMF3). More about Charles and Flash. Charles is also useful for XML development in web browsers, such as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) and XMLHTTP, as it enables you to see the actual XML that is flowing between the client and the server. Charles natively supports JSON, JSON-RPC and SOAP; displaying each in a simplified tree format for easy viewing and debugging.

http://www.octaveengine.com/en/

” OE-CAKE! is demonstration software for 2D-based multi-physics simulation. 
In a way similar to drawing images using paint software, users create objects and can see them move according to the laws of physics. This software supports various physical materials with real life properties such as fluids, gases, rigid (hard) objects and elasticity (soft) objects as building blocks. Users can combine these objects to create and play with more complex objects and mechanisms such as cars, gears and moving dolls. Users can also attach pictures and photos to objects and change their shape, break them apart, or melt them. ”

Here is a designy, and incredibly lame UI presentation by sun here: http://javafx.com

And don’t you lust love when they have to make quicktime movies of their technology? 

_DCE1013 Originally uploaded by estim8d Quick shot from the tack room at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center.

According to Adobe, with Share you can:

• Convert 5 documents to Adobe PDF.
• Send documents without email attachments.
• Access your documents from anywhere.
• View all the documents you have shared or received in one place.
• Post a link to your document on a wiki or blog.
• Embed a Flash® preview of your document on any website.
• Limit access to a document to a list of recipients.