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SSX Tricky was one of the best games I ever played on the PS2 and I have followed the SSX line ever since. Last year we were given Sony PSP's for Christmas as a nice little bonus from Stephanie so I bought SSX on Tour for it. After six months of being stuck missing two gold medals, Colin mentioned a site that had videos from SSX 3, merqurycity.com. Lucky for me the tracks for SSX on Tour for the PSP are the same as the tracks for SSX 3 for the PS2. Thanks for the tips Colin! I now have my golds.

For those of you not on a Mac and not using TextMate vim is an excellent alternative. I modified my .vimrc to be a little more ruby friendly and also added in a line for a dark background terminal. Even though I use TextMate, I still use vim for quick edits. Hard to break old habits I guess.

set background=dark
" Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!). 
" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect. 
set nocompatible 

" allow backspacing over everything in insert mode 
set backspace=indent,eol,start 

" set ruby size tabs
set tabstop=2
set sw=2

set autoindent " always set autoindenting on 
set nobackup " do not keep a backup file, use versions instead 
set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history 
set ruler " show the cursor position all the time 
set showcmd " display incomplete commands 
set incsearch " do incremental searching 

" Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting 
map Q gq 

" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors 
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern. 
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running") 
 syntax on 
 set hlsearch 
endif 

" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands. 
"if has("autocmd") 

" Enable file type detection. 
" Use the default filetype settings, so that mail gets 'tw' set to 72, 
" 'cindent' is on in C files, etc. 
" Also load indent files, to automatically do language-dependent indenting. 
filetype plugin indent on 

" For all text files set 'textwidth' to 78 characters. 
autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=78 

It has been a while since I have had to do much work in .NET since we started our migration towards Open Source tools about 10 months ago. Today I had to deploy a .NET site and I was amazed at how long it took me compared to deploying a Rails site. By the time I had created a new copy of the .NET site, cleaned out the code-behind files, ftp'd it to the server, and tested the new site approximately thirty minutes had passed. That was thirty minutes that clients could not access the site. In a Rails deploy, I upload everything to a new folder and symlink it when ready so the switch is nearly instant. I am glad we have finally decided to move away from the Microsoft EnTARprise Strength tools and move towards a set of tools that get the job done the way it should be.