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Day 3 of Park City brought us a few inches of snow! We started right as the lifts opened up (or just a few minutes behind) and headed straight to the Powder Monkey “Adventure Alley” section on the back side of the mountain. This is a tree filled gully full
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* Binding repair * Falling in the lift line (me plus new bindings) * Fast runs * A run that lasted for miles * Sunny skies * Powder Monkey tree run via super high lift * Lunch break * Anneka learning to ski backwards and crashing into a 30 foot wide bright orange Slow Zone barrier in the
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Day 1 in Park City was excellent. The sun was shining, there had been a touch of snow the day before, and we set out to explore the mountain. We got a bit of a late start because the trip felt very last minute for a lot of people. We
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I'm bound for Park City Utah with Brendan, Anneka, Kenneth, Peter, Paul, and Dave (who I haven't met yet (or is it whom?)). The flight from ATL to SLC seems to take forever. So long that I was suckered into buying 90 minutes of Internet for
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A quick post from the slopes.
Technology
Woah - why didn't anyone tell me I could replace https:// or http:// with JUST // to preserve the protocol on the current page? I didn't know about it until I saw YouTube embed links using it. This is amazing news. I'll have to go through
Music
I had never heard of Conor Oberst or Bright Eyes before I became friends with Kristan. She was(still is) IN LOVE with the moody front man. I didn’t catch on until I started listening to some of his more energetic offerings recently. Let’s start with an example.
Music
Speaking of some old music. Here’s what came up on Spotify to pique my interest in Jawbreaker. There was something smart, haunting, and melodic about this that really grabbed me. It hasn’t been my day for a couple years. What’s a couple more?
Music
I've been using Spotify a lot lately and went through a slump for a week where it didn't really show me anything that great. Then all of the sudden earlier in the week it decided to knock my socks off with some old music I had
Projects
I've been flailing around trying to figure out how trading BitCoins works. I haven't really DONE any trading - but check out these crazy graphs over at BitCoinWisdom.com. There is so much going on. Click on all the things. You'll see.
Technology
To improve privacy and security HTTPS should be used everywhere. It SHOULD be the default option. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case. Even worse, you have no idea what the browser is doing behind your back. For instance – this site you’re reading now is going off and contacting
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Since I have a BitCoin Wallet now I figure I should probably have an encrypted offline storage mechanism for all the keys and the wallet file itself. If best practices have been followed then your Wallet is password protected already, but let’s go ONE MORE step and encrypt them