The Olympic Games are back...I don't plan to watch any events except by accident. When you're in the thick of the Games it seems like there's nothing else going on in the world. It's been six years since my last Games and it's just...eh, there's more interesting things to do. At least in Sydney the TV coverage was a little more balanced (Aussie focussed but not to the exclusion of all other sports/nations). If you're looking for the schedule of TV coverage on NBC in the U.S., MSNBC has posted it Winter Olympics TV Schedule.

One point of interest: NBC appears to have partnered with Sun Microsystems for the nbcolympics.com web site. This is there third technology partner in as many Olympic Games (admittedly I don't know who they partnered with for Athens).

I find it curious, from a web geek perspective, that they redirect to "index.html". Just an oddity. Although they are using Apache, they are forcing replies using HTTP/1.0 which is a silly thing to do with a high-traffic website. They also have requests set to expire immediately and not cache, another silly thing.

They are responding to requests to encode the response in a compressed payload, using gzip instead of deflate, though only from nbcolympics.com and not their CDN edgesuite.net.