As promised we are reporting from the Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival in Whistler! For any snowboarder or skier, the Whistler Telus event is a must-go-see. The last time I went, the snowboarding big air event was fantastic but the entertainment was fairly amateurish. This time was way more pumped with major promoters on the spot giving out freebies to the crowd - monster drinks, free razors from schik, $50 discounts off Zune purchases from Bestbuy, discounts of Bolle sunnies etc - the usual razzmatazz and the constant deep bass vibrations from the zune DJs.

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Zune had their usual “resident artists” (those that design for the “Zune originals”) on the spot happily putting their designs or signatures on snowboards for those that were interested. They also had the art work on display on snowboards - continuing their “living art” theme that drives the artwork designed for Zunes.

Despite the glitz that surrounded it, the big air event was -for me - less impressive than the last one I attended (in 2003). Partly because I am a snowboarder and there were no snowboarders in the event this time round and partly because the organizers decided not to provide publicly visible scores for the contestants. As you can see in the next image, it was kinda hard to see just who was doing the tricks!

Having said all that - Whistler is one of my favorite places and I was happy to have an excuse to go see this years events. For those interested to know - the winners of the concert series set up to find the top undiscovered band in Canada was:- the British Columbians

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We have found a great site with a great range of free music for Zune that we wanted to share with you.

The  site also allows us to download a great range of free music from new artists.

Artists who are keen to get a reputation have a big incentive to get us to listen to and enjoy their music. Go there to check out some of the songs you can download for free.

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Well, not quite - but with the addition of a small bit of gear we can watch our Zune videos on TV! And because we can port our videos with us (via Zune) when we travel, we can set ourselves up to watch the videos we want to watch - wherever we go. So no more watching TV shows in foreign (to me) languages when I travel! As you can see below, the equipment needed so that we can watch our own videos through

the Zune is light and small - so easy to include in a backpack. And - yeah, I know what your thinking - who wants to watch TV while their backpacking? Well …. me for one! My month backpacking round Italy was fantastic - but yeah, I occasionally ended up in a hotel that had TV and believe me I was happy to zone out watching TV for a while - or would have been if I could have understood Italian!

Its a simple matter of plugging the cables in to the TV and lying back, using the remote controller (Oh yeah) and watching the movies we want - rather than the ones the hotel limits us to. But if you feel the need to get more guidance on the technical details, you can get them from Gadling - along with some interesting  advice on how to “deal with” those TVs that have chastity belts attached.

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