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Great Sand Dunes

Video from the Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Colorado, USA taken in October 2007. Alpine tundra, forests, massive dunes, grasslands, and wetlands are all protected as elements of the Great Sand Dunes natural system.

More photos from the Great Sand Dunes.

Deer @ Roxborough State Park

January 2009 @ Chatfield State Park, Colorado




See the Chatfield State Park (01-09) gallery for more photos.

Tools we use

I have always liked the “What I Use‘ portion of Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows.

With the understanding that the reality of my daily computing repertoire changes on a regular basis because of the nature of my day job, I do get a lot of questions about the hardware and software I actually use. So what the heck, here’s the list. I’ll try to keep this up-to-date, but again, my testing requirements often cause me to change things up.

Paul provides an long list of the hardware and software he uses as part of his personal life and his working life. It is helpful to see what software and hardware a tech pundit/analyst/journalist actually uses to complete his/her tasks.

Here is another list from 37 Signals:

The tools we use to run and build 37signals – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
We get lots of emails asking us what tools we use to build our products and run our business, so I figured we’d just post it to the blog.

* For text editing, HTML, programming, and CSS work we use a combination of TextWrangler, TextMate, and Vim.
* For accounting we use Quickbooks Pro 2006 for Mac (we download our statements from Chase and American Express into Quickbooks).
* For tech support we use Gmail and TypeIt4Me.
* For internal bug tracking we use Trac.
* For managing our email newsletters we use Campaign Monitor.
* For running our blogs we use Movable Type.
* For managing our RSS feeds we use Feedburner.
* For our Basecamp and Backpack forums we use PunBB.
* For computers we use Apple Powerbooks and iMac G5s (we also have a Dell for testing on the PC).
* For our payment gateway we use Authorize.net.
* For our web hosting we use Tilted.
* For designing documents we use Adobe InDesign.
* For instant group communications we use Apple iChat, Skype, Adium, and Campfire.
* For keeping people organized we use Sunrise.

And of course Ruby on Rails powers our apps, Writeboard helps us write, Ta-da List keeps our quick and dirty lists in order, Basecamp helps us manage projects and products, and Backpack helps us all stay dangerously organized.

Balloon Festival @ Chatfield State Park, August 2008

Balloons

DNC, Denver, July 2008

Photos from the Democratic National Convention, Denver, CO, July 28, 2008.  The photos were taken way up in the nose-bleed seats at Invesco Field at Mile High so not much close up detail of the stage.

Happy 4th of July!

Pelicans @ Chatfield

North Pole totally ice-free this summer

Polar scientists say that “for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.” The scientists “believe the chances of a totally ice-free North Pole this summer are greater than 50:50 because the normally thick ice formed over many years at the Pole has been blown away and replaced by huge swathes of thinner ice formed over a single year.”

Warm Sun. Feels good.

Chatfield State Park

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