Terahertz » Olympics http://terahertzatheist.ca Science and compassion for a better world Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:59:02 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 http://terahertzatheist.ca http://terahertzatheist.ca/thzfavicon.GIF Terahertz I guess they expected no one wanted to come http://terahertzatheist.ca/2009/11/07/i-guess-they-expected-no-one-wanted-to-come/ http://terahertzatheist.ca/2009/11/07/i-guess-they-expected-no-one-wanted-to-come/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:13:16 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/2009/11/07/i-guess-they-expected-no-one-wanted-to-come/ Continue reading I guess they expected no one wanted to come]]> Who would have guessed that when the final round of Vancouver 2010 Olympic tickets went on sale this morning that a lot of people would try to buy them?

Did VANOC think the few protesters were the majority of people? Even just in Vancouver there’s upwards of 2 million people, let alone the people who plan to fly into town for the games.

So this morning everyone get’s greeted with this nice page:

VANOCfail

Their Twitter feed is more helpful (all of these posts are 2 hours old):

  • Fans – making some progress on the tix site. Its getting better. Hang in there.
  • RT @mhlchong finally logged in!! – Congrats!
  • Folks, we’re aware of the issue on the tix site and hope to have that solved shortly. Hang in there – its a very popular site today. #2010
  • Hang in there folks, lots of traffic on the tix site today.

So no Olympic tickets for you. The tubes are full.

Update: The Province has picked up on the story. They report (second hand) that “Vanoc acknowledged network difficulties but hoped to resolve the problem quickly.” Call me skeptical.

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