I finally got around to refactoring some code and got the twitter snow report updater back online. Follow it now at http://twitter.com/snowing to get daily updates on the snow and weather conditions at all of the Colorado ski resorts.
A new site is also in the works that will give you even more information about your favorite ski destinations.
So follow the twitter feed, and look forward to a great season. Copper Mountain is opening tomorrow morning, bringing the number of open resorts to three, so it’s time for a snow day.
The hard working team at Lijit took the afternoon off today, and spent it racing around a Go-Kart track at breakneck speeds. It was a great chance for everyone to exercise their competitive spirit and have some fun . I came in last place in the “slightly faster folks” group. I have only myself to blame … and a few of my coworkers. They know who they are , and they will be dealt with swiftly.
Regardless of who won or who lost, I think we all had a good time. I got some decent photos, and a great video of Charlie winning the “Silver” group race. Check out the photo album, and video below. I now need to get some rest because going that fast wears you out!
First off , I need a bailout. I need someone to write blog posts for me so my precious dollars aren’t wasted on web hosting. Seriously though, it has been a busy month, and I just haven’t had the time to write anything.
You can look forward to great stuff coming soon though. I am planning on re-writing all of my ski and snow related tools from the ground up, so keep an eye out for that. That means ski conditions rss feeds, maps, and twitter updates. I’m even considering doing a little ski conditions widget that you can throw on your own site. Let me know if you have any other ideas of cool stuff that I should do in that vein.
So in the absence of any other good content, I leave you with this beautiful image of my friend: Irish Whiskey. He has maintained me well over the last month.
Aside from being a clever play on words, this post is really about one of the most interesting things to land on the web browser in a long time. Care of Mozilla Labs and Aza Raskin, Ubiquity is a Firefox plugin that brings the command line to the web, and the utility of the quicklauncher to your browser. Imagine a great tool like Quicksilver or Launchy , but for your web browsing tasks.
The utility available in this tool is truly amazing, and the potential is huge. I urge you to goto the Ubiquity page, watch the video , read the tutorials , and get a better understanding of what it does. So what can you do with Ubiquity with the stroke of a few keys?
Email a page, google map, selected web content to any Gmail contact
Add a Google Calendar item
The list goes on and on(type command-list in the the command window to get a list of all of the command options).
Once you have it installed, visit this page to subscribe to a cool Ubiquity command that allows you to launch a Lijit search from any site that has a Lijit wijit installed.
Once you subscribe, if you are on a blog that uses Lijit, launch Ubiquity , and type liijit + “search query” to search that blogger , and all of their content.
It was a lot of fun to hack this up, and it will definitely inspire me to write some more commands.
