I head to Orlando later today to judge UCA All*Star Nationals. It should be a fun weekend.

Ski Resorts within an hour of an airport:

Aspen/Pitkin County Airport, Colo., from which the magazine says you can be on the lift in 10 minutes at Buttermilk. Aspen Highlands, Ajax and Snowmass are within a half-hour’s drive of the airport.

Burlington International Airport, Vt., from which the magazine says you can be on the lift in 30 minutes at Bolton Valley. Sugarbush, Stowe and Smugglers Notch are within an hour’s drive of the airport.

Reno-Tahoe International Airport, Nev., from which the magazine says you can be on the lift in 30 minutes at Mount Rose. Northstar, Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows are within an hour’s drive of the airport.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Wash., from which the magazine says you can be on the lift at the Summit At Snoqualmie, Alpental, in 55 minutes. Stevens Pass and Crystal Mountain are within 55 minutes of the airport.

Salt Lake City International Airport, Utah, from which the magazine says you can be on the lift at Snowbird in 45 minutes. Brighton, Solitude, Park City and The Canyons are within an hour’s drive of the airport.

From Future Snowboarding Magazine.

Think Vitamin has a worthwhile article on OpenID.

This week I upgraded my Cingular 8525 to Windows Mobile 6 (WM6). I say Cingular instead of AT&T because it is old enough that it is Cingular branded (externally) and needed the last ROM update to be internally AT&T branded. Here are my thoughts from my first weekend with the upgrade:

• IMAP is fixed. When using WM5 I could not delete messages off the server, but I can with WM6. This means I don’t have to delete the same message multiple times on my phone and in Outlook.
• Schedule mail send/receive has been fixed. Now when I ask for an account to be checked every so often, it is.
• Windows Update has been incorporated. Although I haven’t really tested this yet because there haven’t been any updates release, this should make it much easier and more convenient to fix minor bugs.
• The 3G flash screen volume has been adjusted to a reasonable level. This was one of my largest complaints previously, especially after learning it was not an issue in the AT&T branded 8525s.
• Messages have some issues. When I created a new text message it flashes to the Today screen before creating a new message. It has also gone to the Today screen randomly when I clicked to open a message in one of my inboxes.
• My Documents comes with a lot of unnecessary folders. This isn’t a major issue because I could delete them without them returning.
• I can now save a number from the call history to an existing contact. Why it took so long for this, I have no idea.
• I can also now view an email sender’s address without saving that person as a new contact. Again, what took so long?

That is all for now.

We have 5 weeks before the World Championships in Finland and I no longer think there will be an American team in attendance.

We have about 7 weeks to the IFC World Championships and little has changed in the past week. I have talked to the coaches for the coed team, but no reportable progress on the all-girl team. The coed team has the potential to be legendary. All of the alumni I talked to are interested in participating, even moving forward despite the uncertainty. My guess is there will need to be significant progress over the next 2 weeks otherwise we will have to start working towards Germany in 2009, forgetting about Finland.

So far things have been moving pretty slow, but at least things are moving. I’ve had a few conversations with USCF head, Stephanie French, and Marcel Hammond, one of the board members. We are in agreement on the direction we need to head if things are going to work out. I’ve talked to 2 of the 6 coaches I believe need to get involved and have left messages for one of the others. Hopefully he will get back with me this weekend so we can make significant strides before my 7 week update.

The United States is sending teams to compete in the World Cheerleading Championships in November and I may get involved with the organization. The teams are sponsored by the Unites States Cheerleading Federation, chaired by Stephanie French. The Championships will be held in Helsinki, Finland in November. I’ll update my site when I have more information.

Tonight I have started what is going to be a very public redesign of my site. This redesign involves designing a Wordpress theme from scratch for use on my site. You can follow my progress on the Redesign page. Wish me luck.