Reasons why passover is like christmas

Some people automatically associate Hannukah and Christmas, because they occur at the same time of year, but in terms of similarity, passover and christmas are a much better match.

Reasons (mostly tongue in cheek) why passover is like christmas:

* It's traditionally the big family get together of the year
* The one celebration that people tend to hang on to, even if they leave the culture entirely
* It's traditionally built around a big meal
* And traditional songs
* And ritual hats
* And presents
* And crackers (well, sort of)
* Even though the original story is a bit gory
* And you put a cup of wine out for a supernatural entity who sneaks in when you're not looking and drinks it, and will decide whether everyone's been being righteous or not

Opening .blah files in windows

I had always been annoyed that windows can't associate a file type with files if they don't have an extension: eg. you can say "Open *.mk files in notepad++" but not "Open files called Makefile in Notepad++".

But then someone pointed out you *can* associate "no extension" with "open in Notepad++". I can't believe I never thought of that.

That's not perfect, because some files with no extension are binary, not text. But I never open those in Windows Explorer, do I? The only reason I ever DO want to open them is to edit them as text. And I generally want to open all scripts, text files, code, etc, etc, in the same program, and it's up to that program to know how to treat them, so I don't care that there's no way of distinguishing in windows.

I don't know if there's a way of treating files that start with a . the same way...