New Years, Backpacking Style

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No snow this year meant we needed another way to spend New Years. I was getting over a cold and not too excited about the prospect of spending a few days outside but the weather was too nice to justify anything but. Ended up getting a late start in the Ventana Wilderness (45 miles S. of Big Sur) on Friday night -- didn't reach our first campsite until 10:30pm after a tranquil hike along the coastal shelf by moonlight.

Saturday saw us climb to ~5500 ft before dropping back down to 3k or so to campsite #2; all in all a 10 mile day. Sunday was short and sweet and made for the end of our 18 mile loop.

Turned out to be an awesome trip, despite my picking up a tick and also a liberal coating of poison oak (which 3 weeks later has only now subsided). Sanny of course experienced only the good: typical.

iTerm2 - Mac OS Terminal Replacement

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Really, the post title says it all. I happened upon this thru vince (http://vccv.posterous.com/) the other day whom I spied using split panes in a terminal session. While the split panes are great on their own (and are a feature I find sorely lacking from the standard terminal app), it's only a small part of the feature set iTerm2 rocks.

Maybe my favorite feature is the ability to call up a persistent terminal session thru a hot-key -- pressing ^-Cmd-T slides down a semi transparent terminal window the width of my screen and a portion of it's hight which upon losing focuses slides back up.

To anyone who has spent time on linux only to move to OS X, this is a must have -- as it is for anyone who's ever only used the standard Terminal app.