Mad River Glen: Ski it if you can?

On Wednesday I made my first trip ever to ski Mad River Glen with a friend from church, and although skiing is always awesome, this trip was a little bit sad. Tuesday it got warm and rained, and pretty much the entire mountain melted out because it was almost all powder. They went form 100% open to ~40% open in 1 day. The guy at the ski shop thought they would close this weekend. I saw a lot of good looking terrain, but yesterday it was cold and didn’t really soften up at the top and almost nothing was open at the bottom. There were probably fewer than 50 skiers on the mountain. Below are some funny pictures of me trying to ski on grass. Somehow the runs didn’t seem to have too many rocks on them and it sorta worked.
Grassy moguls. Almost as good as regular moguls.

Mad River Glen: Ski it if you can?

As long as there aren’t too many rocks, you can ski practically anything.

Mad River Glen: Ski it if you can?

New ethernet card

Yesterday this server lost it’s network connection and could not get an IP address from MIT. It had been working fine with no strange messages in the system log files. I suspected a problem with the Ethernet jack in my room or the switch in the building, but after a bunch of troubleshooting I determined that the Ethernet card was no longer working. Along with most of the rest of this computer, it has now been replaced and the computer is back online.

Upgraded blog!

After several years of a partially functional version of a simple blog program that I wrote for a CS databases class but never completely finished, I’ve decided to increase my use of technology by installing WordPress on my webserver so I can do more serious blogging, and you can add comments. I think I’ve written a WordPress theme so that it integrates flawlessly with my website, but I’m sure I’ll be ironing out kinks for a little while. Let me know how you think things look.

Unfortunately at some point I have to deal with the html blog that I have been generating since 2002. I doubt I can import it directly to WordPress because it’s in a format I developed for my own use. I really don’t want to re-enter every entry manually, but unfortunately that might be my only option.