Hokus Pokus, a blank 7 (about VIII- to VIII accoridng to UIAA). My second one after Hekseskudd, a pretty short route with a tricky start, a rather painful mid-section (really sharp edges) and a lot of moving back and forth.
Now I need to find me an easy 7+, one that mostly requires a high tolerance for pain and a good sense of balance.
131 hours without a spam. That’s 4.5 days – pretty good. As I wrote earlier, I’ve been training my filters really well, and my spam quota is currently down to 1 spam in 98 messages.
What’s yours?
I went shopping. Our local store had a deal on ropes, and I’m tired of having to borrow a rope – it’s time I buy my own.
While there, I went into a spree. I’ve always liked Salewa’s coloured clamps, beecause looking for the number on one while standing on a small crack with just one foot isn’t something I enjoy much. So these are going to be my new friends.
Also, I got a Arcteryx Bora 60 on sale. It’s not the latest model, so I guess that’s why I got it at half price. And it fits me like… If I was to ever have an exoskeleton fitted, this is how it should fit. I’m just 1.70, and used to things being a bit too big for me – this backpack came in three sizes, and it fits me without any adjustments needed. In fact, it’s less adjustable than my tattered old one, because they have three sizes. Love it. I can’t wait for the first trip out.
The only negative point about the shopping trip was that I couldn’t take the shoes home I’d picked for myself a few weeks ago – they were out in my size, and they have to be ordered. I’m hoping they’ll come in time for me to walk them in before my first trial walk. Jotunheimen’s mountains will be the first test of my equipment for Kilimanjaro.
If you have an intelligent spam filter like the one built into Thunderbird or Spam Assassin, you need to train it right.
The most common problem I’ve seen is taht people only tell the spam filter about their spam, but not about the good mails (the ‘ham’). In Mozilla, you do this by selecting all the good emails and saying “Mark this Message as Not Junk”. This is important, nay, vital information for the filter.
I did this with Spam Assassin a while back, and any time I get a spam now, I feed it back into the filter. The results are pretty impressive: My spam filter now catches 99.2% of all the spam. I’m tracking this and making a diagram from it. You can see the improvement over the untrained filter I had two months ago.
That’s pretty darn good. I get in excess of 100 spams a day, which isn’t as much as some of my friends get, but still bad enough.
I haven’t been updating in a while, as you may have noticed. Mood swings. Stuff happening. All the explanations you read everywhere else about why people don’t update, and then some.
I’ll try to just post a few bits again, sporadically. To get things going.
Plus, I decided to switch back to English. It’s the only language I speak these days, I might as well try to write in it.
Gestern habe ich eine Statistik gelesen. Die Briten, die ja gern nach dem Tod ihr Vermögen ihren Katzen vermachen, spenden im Jahr:
Warum Katzen, Hunde und Esel? Die sind wirklich nicht vom Aussterben bedroht. Das Ziel der Spenden scheint nicht der Schutz der Arten zu sein, sondern das würdig Leben von Ex-Haustieren. Während in Afrika die letzten ihrere Art sterben, und Gelder für die REttung fehlen, werden in Europa Haustiere mit Millionenspenden verhätschelt. Klasse.
Sowas regt mich tierisch auf:
This summer, the Park Service approved a creationist text, “Grand Canyon: A Different View” for sale in park bookstores and museums. The book by Tom Vail claims that the Grand Canyon is really only a few thousand years old, developing on a biblical rather than an evolutionary time scale.
Das Wetter ist wieder angenehmr, um morgens wandern zu gehen. Heute habe ich meine Zeit von 80 Minuten auf 61 Minuten gedrückt, wahrscheinlich vor allem, weil ich a) zu spät zu einem Meeting gekommen bin, und b) unterwegs nicht Zeit mit Einkäufen verloren habe.
Damit ich bis Oktober fit genug bin, muss ich aber noch eine Menge tun. Mit der aktuellen Motivation zum wandern ist das nciht zu schaffen.
Bei Fazal Majid entdeckt: The Megapixel Myth, ein ziemlich guter Artikel darüber, wie durch das bloße Klotzen bei der Bildauflösung schlechte Kameras verkauft werden. Pflichtlektüre für jeden der sich eine Digi-Cam kaufen will.
Ich selber habe eine Canon S30, schon seit längerer Zeit. Die hat einen 1/1.8″ Sensor (was etwa 8.9 mm Diagonale sind), nicht wie im o.g. Artikel empfohlen ein 2/3″ (11 mm). Wenn man bedenkt, dass Sony eine 8 Megapixel-Kamera mit einem 2/3″ Sensor vertreibt, ist 1/1.8″ ziemlich gut für eine 3.2 Megapixel Kamera.
In zwei Jahren denke ich nochmal drüber nach, ob ich mir eine neue zulege. Momentan bin ich mit der alten noch weiter zufrieden.
http://www.virtuelvis.com/archives/161.html
http://www.antville.org/img/retrakker/coolasfuck.gif
http://myblog.de/showone.php?blog=nordkapp&id=36294
http://larsholst.info/blog/2004/02/11/well-designed-weblogs-an-introduction/