Just wanted to wish congratulations to the 100 Peaks hiking blog, which is celebrating its 2nd anniversary. That’s like 20 in blog years, so well done!. ;D
I’d highly recommend subscribing, and also check out his YouTube channel, for cool video hike reports.
Smithsonian.com: “Canyoneering: Much More Than a Hike in the Park”
At the sandy bottom, in the shade of a lonely tree, we rest and enjoy the view. “It looks like someone took a knife and carved the rock,” says my daughter, Ann Burns.
She’s gazing up at the fluted wall of golden Navajo sandstone, encircling a patch of sky blue. This is our first foray into canyoneering, a relatively young sport (called canyoning in Europe) combining climbing, rappelling, bouldering, swimming and hiking. Yes, it’s thrilling, an opportunity to explore stunning underground Edens. But it’s also an exercise in problem solving. Around every blind corner is a new challenge.
Very interesting article. Unfortunately, now I have the Canyonero theme song from the Simpsons stuck in my head. ;)
While my gray matter continues to flow out my nose (a cold has slammed me not unlike the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, which is said to be like having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick), enjoy these fine links:
Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox – Image from Wikipedia
The Open Sourcerer: “How to remove Mono from Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala”
Anyhow, my personal opinion of Mono hasn’t changed much. There are no Mono applications in Ubuntu that make me go weak at the knees and get all excited[...]
In the latest, shiniest, bestest, release of Ubuntu to date, and it really is a cracking release, the desktop version of Karmic Koala (version 9.10) contains two Mono dependent applications in the default install along with the Mono VM and associated libraries etc.
Now, this time, we have 3 ways to go Mono free[...]
BLAFS: “Tomboy to Zim notes conversion” (Via Zim extras page.)
The script provided here is useful if you for some reason would like to convert your Tomboy notes to a set of notes for the similar Zim application. Both are desktop wiki style note taking applications. While Tomboy uses the Mono framework, Zim uses Perl and is in general considered to be leaner on resources than Tomboy.
This small python script converts notes written by the Tomboy application to notes for the Zim application. It does most of the work of conversion but some Tomboy formatting does not exists in Zim and is hence stripped of the notes (different text sizes, fixed width). Nested bullet lists in Tomboy is converted to a flat bullet list in Zim. Besides this the script does a descent conversion job, I think.
NY Times: “Hiking History: England’s Ancient Ridgeway Trail”
The Ridgeway is the oldest continuously used road in Europe, dating back to the Stone Age. Situated in southern England, built by our Neolithic ancestors, it’s at least 5,000 years old, and may even have existed when England was still connected to continental Europe, and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine.
LA Times: “Physician convicted in cycling case”
A physician accused of deliberately injuring two cyclists by slamming on his car’s brakes on a narrow Brentwood road last year was convicted Monday of assault with a deadly weapon, mayhem and other serious criminal charges.
The three-week trial of Dr. Christopher Thompson drew close attention from cyclists, many of whom viewed the case as a test of the justice system’s commitment to protecting cyclists.
I have decided to retire the End Pavement website and subsume its content back into my main Celsius1414 site.
In late 2006, I broke out several different topics that used to appear on Celsius1414 into their own websites. After a year or so, I realized I was spreading myself too thin and got rid of a few. Only one of the satellite sites (Trolley Dodger) really took off, and so I have been debating the fate of the last two for some time — End Pavement and Grown Diaries. I’m still hoping to expand the latter (though I still might change my mind), but I think two or three blogs+websites will be more than enough for me to deal with.
Especially if I want to be doing any actual bicycling and hiking. :)
On a practical level, and apart from the blog and domain disappearing, not much is changing, the content has been integrated into Celsius1414 and life will continue. I believe all of the comments will come with as well, if my research is correct.
Links will not be redirected automatically as I am letting the endpavement.com domain expire, so please update your outbound links. However, I’m trying to make it as easy a transition as possible with simple substitutions of the celsius1414.com domain for endpavement.com.
Thanks to everyone for reading these past three years, and please do switch on over to the new (old) site if you have a mind to. I look forward to lots of new writing and lots of being outdoors in the year to come.
