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We went skiing at Carson Pass on Saturday and found some nice corn below Elephant’s Back that worked well for practicing tele turns.

After the last time I went skiing, I posted some pictures to the telemarktips.com forums and asked for advice. Everyone said “shorter poles (so you can get lower)” and several people recommended reading Paul Parker’s Free Heel Skiing. I followed both bits of advice and it worked. I was able to link turns together this time, starting to get a feel for the flow between turns. It was awesome!

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After I replaced our car battery a few weeks ago, the stereo asked for the security code. Supposedly this makes it worthless to thieves because they won’t know the code. Cool.

Except, I don’t know the code either. I must have forgotten to write it down. Oops.

Kenwood’s website tells me the dealer can reset it but the 3rd Google result for “kenwood 519 security code” tells me how to reset it myself. So, it turns out the radio is only worthless to thieves who don’t know how to use Google. You can go look up the details yourself. It basically involves entering KCAR using the stereo’s remote. But don’t tell anyone: it’s a secret.

Attended my first Super Happy Dev House on Saturday night and had a great time. The house was packed with energetic people devoted to getting stuff done. Even though most of the people were strangers working on their own projects, it was really motivating to be surrounded by so much activity.

My project was getting boost.python working on my iBook. I wasn’t able to stay all night and didn’t reach my goal*, but I did learn about iPython from the people sitting next to me. Someone (not sure who) had designed a great poster for the event and they had printed up stickers & pins so there was even some schwag. I’m looking forward to the next one.

* My problem was I was trying to use the boost packages from fink. Turns out they delete a bunch of the files you need to use bjam. The answer? Download the source directly from boost.org (not sure why I didn’t think of that right away, actually). Mission accomplished.