Colorado Skiing

It is not even winter yet and I’m already looking forward to the skiing possibilities and some ski pass packages. To name a few resorts:

• Beaver Creek
• Breckenridge
• Aspen
• Copper Mountain
• Steamboat
• Eldora
• Keystone
• Purgatory
• Telluride
• Vail
• Winter Park
• Crested Butte
• Wolf Creek

For complete info, check out the Colorado Ski Country web site.

Text Editors

Everyone needs a good text editor beyond the standard Notepad and Wordpad applications that come with the Windows operating system. Bare minimum, a good text editor should:

• Be able to read and preserve the original file format (good for when you are dealing with files on different operating systems).
• Be able to convert file formats (if necessary).
• Support power user hotkeys like being able to hop to line numbers, etc.
• Be able to handle complex regular expressions in both a single file and multiple files. This great for string finds and replacements.
• Be lightweight (i.e. consume very little system memory) and be fast.
• Be able to do file compares against both single files and directory structures (including complex nested structures).

A few editors worth considering are:

• SlickEdit
• UltraEdit
• E Text Editor
• Notepad++

I’ve used SlickEdit for years but just recently started using the UltraEdit/UltraCompare combo and am very impressed. UltraCompare is equivalent to SlickEdit’s DIFFzilla tool. It just happens that UltraEdit and UltraCompare are two separate software installs while DIFFzilla is included in the SlickEdit install.

Check ‘em out.

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Three Zero

Well, today marks three decades of existence. Thanks to my family and friends for being there along the way. Life wouldn’t have been nearly as fun without you. I’m back where I want to be, loving every bit of it, and looking forward to the road ahead.

Special thanks to my brother for the card, I’ll make sure to save a piece for you!

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Irreligion

Interesting podcasts that I recommend downloading and listening for yourself. They are:

• The True Nature of Reality by Steve Pavlina
• The Future of Ideas by Sam Harris
• NPR Interview with Bart Ehrman - Has a book out called “God’s Problem”. This is a discussion that questions religion on why we suffer.

The first one by Steve Pavlina, albeit a bit on the edge, opens up your mind for Sam Harris’ thoughts and ideas on religion. All of them are great for thinking about our state of reality outside the scope of religion and taking a more realistic stance on what is and isn’t real.

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