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This past weekend sure was a sleeper. As the Thursday weather reports predicted rain up to 8,000' followed by wet snow, my inbox started filling up with messages titled "Bail!" and "Have you seen the weather???" from my Bradley Hut companions to be. I alt+tabbed back to MS Query Analyzer and wondered if I should just come into work instead of taking my planned Friday off. It looked like it would be that, or another solitary day in the apartment mining belly button lint.

(Originally posted on TelemarkTips.com)

Caption: First flight leaves Kaslo for Carlyle Lodge

Longish introduction which may seem to have little to do with subject at hand:

I've realized that there are a number of obstacles hindering my fledgling
movement to introduce Backcountry Touring as an Olympic event. For
starters, many Olympic host cities will not be able to provide the

Only you can't really tell it's me and my friends. To help you I've edited in the names:

Backcountry Magazine February/March 2008 Issue page 41
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Esther at Guitar Center

My friend Esther has the right perspective on New Year's resolutions. Beats the hell out of:

• Save more money.
• Drink less coffee.
• Loose weight.

Start Songbird.

Type about: config in the location bar

Type useragent in the Filter box.

Right click on general.useragent.extra.songbird and copy the value to a text doc on your desktop for safe keeping. You may want to undo this change later!!!

Now modify that value to be Firefox/2.0.0.11. (Version probably not important.)

(Note: setting general.useragent.extra.songbird = Firefox/2.0.0.11 did not work for me.)

Now I can sign in to Rhapsody, but I'm prepared for other things to break because of that edit! If they do I'll change back to Songbird/0.4 (20071226135127).

When I have more time I'll try to investigate their javascript more thoroughly. And upgrade this from "Kludge" to "HowTo".

Reference: http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/2244

Last night I finally achieved a goal I've been doggedly pursuing for - well let's just say "too long." I've got Band-in-a-Box (BIAB) running under Wine (MS Windows emulation) in Ubuntu 7.10. I've been dual-booting Windows and Linux on my IBM Thinkpad T40 for quite a while. One of the main reason I've needed to subject myself to the ugly and soul-less world of Microsoft has been to use BIAB.

Me: So you travel a lot for work?
Her: Yeah. LA often. I'm in airports a lot.
Me: (Attempt at cute humor comparing airports to hospitals.)
Her: (Mildly amused.)
Me: What do you do?
Her: I'm in HR...for an entertainment company...
Me: Oh yeah? What company?
Her: ...TV and video...we have a magazine...
Me: So you're in LA for the Hollywood scene?
Her: It's adult entertaiment, okay? I don't really like to talk about it on MUNI. I do recruiting.

Although I'm intent on not centering my life around alcohol these days, I did take note this past December when St. George Spirits/Hangar One of Alameda finally received approval from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for St. George Absinthe Verte. Apparently the first batch (selling at $75 for a 750ml bottle) flew off their shelves in under 3 weeks.

Until I find a way to make time for blog posts that I would be more proud of, I'm posting some of my Tweets here.

Today in coffee: Blue Bottle Cafe opens: http://tinyurl.com/2gwgop and is mentioned in NYT: http://tinyurl.com/2cmblf.

They don't give an exact address but here is a map of that corner:

Projects:
StoneCircles.org is in the process of purchasing a large number of “flip video” cameras which are very discrete, AA battery operated, tape-less cameras whose data can be uploaded directly to a computer and then sent by satellite phone out to the world. The cameras are only about $100 apiece and we need your help to purchase them and the more expensive transmission equipment needed to get the video out of the country...Making sure that the world can witness what is going on within Burma is one of the only means we have of keeping the activities of the government under check and bring power back into the hands of the Burmese people...Click on the “donate now” button and then be sure to check “yes” where it asks if this donation is designated for Burmese video equipment.

Petitions:

• Contact Elected Officials
• http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/uscampaignforburma/pe...
• http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/tf.php?cl_tf_sign=1

Links:

• http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/whatyoucando/getstarted.html
• http://www.badasf.org/
• The Buddhist Peace Fellowship's Burma Action Page: http://bpf.org/html/whats_now/2007/burmaevents.html
• San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
  http://sfinsight.org/burma.html

Read on for past events: