Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I've been lucky enough to do a lot of travelling over the past twenty years; roaming across six continents and climbing mountains on five. Mountaineering often took me to remote areas. The sort of places where the things I usually take for granted just don't exist; a warm bed, clean water, enough food ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
So this is only BritSpeak because my brother Richard and I made it up while sitting in Becky's Diner in Portland, Maine. Becky's has a largish menu with lots of options. Not something I'm keen on dealing with before about 6pm. But diners are a must when visiting the East coast.
Richard, after ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I'm of to Bostin and New England for a few days to see my family and the leaves turn. So no posts for a few days. I'll be taking my Nikon D40 and 18-200mm VR lens so hopefully there's be some nice pictures for the picture gallery when I get ...
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Saturday, July 7th, 2007
I'm off to Huaraz, Peru on Monday for a spot of alpine climbing, so there will be no blogging here for the next month. I get back just in time for Agile 2007 in Washington, DC. I'll be the thin and probably very sunburnt guy presenting on Thursday morning. Hope ...
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Several of my fellow bloggers have discovered this neat toy for creating World and US maps with visited countries highlighted. My effort can be found on my climbing blog.
This is really an interesting use of GIF technology. A far cooler peice of mapping technology is Virtual Earth map control. I'v been ...
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Saturday, September 16th, 2006
Pictures and a full report of my Waddington trip are on my climbing web site.
What's all this got to do with agility. I learnt quite a bit about "the last responsible moment" when making a decision. Decisions on which route to take whether to continue at all or retreat.
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Back from "Fat Camp" Waddington. Climb on a diet of two granola bars, three PowerBars and half a freeze dried meal each day and you will loose weight, no question.
Call me a sad muppet but I spent our one bad weather day reading the second edition of "Extreme Programming Explained" ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
So my "Agile Vacation" to Belize is in full swing. I've been and had a bunch of shots for various things and have a taxi to the airport booked. I even bought some new travelling pants in honour of the trip - REI had them on sale.
Wilma looks like it'll ...
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