Heather and I are on vacation for Christmas in Missouri Valley, Iowa staying with her Mother. The weather has been cold in general, but every few days the sun pokes out and it warms a tad and feels like sunny Colorado ever so briefly. Our days are spent visiting family members at various Christmas related activities which has been a great blessing. Particularly, it’s been wonderful to see her 96 year old grandmother who is the rock of the family and witness to Christian living. May God bless her. Anne, Heather’s mom, as usual is a great host and has bent over backwards to make us feel at home. I am feeling just shy of a stuffed turkey food wise.
Tuesday we leave for Colorado. Can’t say I am excited for the nine hour haul, but it will be over before we realize it. Maybe when we get back the weather will warm up for some outdoor climing with my friends Rob and Steven. I am anxious to assist them on Practice Climb 101 in the send quest. Also, the Holy Trinity web site project needs more time - a few more months and I am sure it can be wrapped up.
Tour de Firewall just concluded and I am happy to report that it’s been fully up-graded. What a war! Spread out across two full months I can’t say things were easy. But, with some new docs in place maybe next time it’s just a battle and not a full blown war. Due to general security concerns I’ll spare all the details and suffice to say it’s ship shape. Thankfully, back to the Holy Trinity web site project.
Just updated the site to the latest version of WordPress and figured a shout out to everyone was in order. Climbing has resumed as my finger injury from late summer has healed and Rob, Steven and I are hooked on trying to send ‘Practice Climb 101′ .12c S on the West Ridge in Eldorado. A few more trips up to it and I think I might be able to send. It’s very hard and would be a great accomplishment.
The Holy Trinity website project took a back seat the last few months as a long overdue home firewall wall upgrade has been in progress sucking up all free time that climbing doesn’t already consume. Another week or so and I hope to have that wrapped up and back working on the website.
Heather’s Mom, Anne, was in town for ThanksGiving and it was great to hang out with her and Heather. We will most likely be visiting her in Iowa for Christmass. Gotta run. Peace and blessings to all.
Sorry to anyone that tried to visit the site for the last week or so. I upgraded the web server to Ubuntu 8.10 last week and things did not go well. Finally, late last night I was able to fit in some time to address the issues and get the ship upright again. These sort of technical problems require a sizeable block of time to deal with and it’s been too busy at my day job lately and home to fit in more then an hour edgewise. Should be good to go for some time to come now. Thanks all!
This site was down for about 20 hours since yesterday afternoon (i.e., 9/17/08) while I upgraded my Ubuntu server. It was kind of scary to rebuild it from scratch, but I want to get a Bugzilla instance and SVN repository set up and the old OS had reached EOL. My apologies to anyone who tried to access the site for the last day or so.
A few brief notes on the upgrade.
- ubuntu server would not auto recognize flash thumb drives … manual mount
- named runs under it’s own bind user and the config files for it must be bind group read only
- apache configuration can be tricky. You must enable mod_rewrite, set up NameVirtualHost * in the httpd.conf, enable vhost files, create some soft links, etc. … it’s a battle
- rsync needs correct sudoers setup
- postfix has to be configured to forward to ISP
Sept 6, 2008 Mike Carr, Rob Woolf, John Bissell and I rode Monarch Crest Trail/Rainbow Trail loop utilizing our own automobile shuttle to cover the gap from Poncha Springs to Monarch Pass. The ride of roughly 35 miles and 2,600′ feet packs a tremendous amount of beautiful natural scenery and variable terrain into what is in reality a low effort given the long distance and lack of any major vertical climbs (e.g., no single hill climbs probably exceeds 200′).
I am going to give PollDaddy a test whirl here to see how it behaves before I post up a poll to MP.com thread. Have wanted to give this thing a try since seeing it a few weeks ago on TechCrunch.
While shopping around for a new set of technical cams (i.e., small) to supplement my eight or so year old run of Metolius TCU’s 00-3 the question, ‘whose technical cams reign supreme’, came to mind. I primarily climb in Eldorado Canyon and Front Range areas. Initially, I leaned towards the new Metolius Master Cam as much out of brand loyalty as wanting the latest in single stem technology. I bought a 1-Blue to test drive and liked it, but in the mean time a voice in my head keeps telling me these are good cams, but something else might be better.
To appease the nerd in me I dumped the raw available numbers (i.e., range, strength, weight) into an Excel spreadsheet and started calculating. BD C3s are the clear winner on weight and CCH Aliens hold the upper hand for both strength and range.
This MP.com thread has strength and weight chart images.
Note: I wasn’t able to figure out how to use Excel to come up with a nice looking cam min/max range floating bar chart so if someone could pave the way great! Download the Excel spreadsheet if you wanna give it a go.
I couldn’t find any numbers for head width to gauge how deeply cams need to be placed for all lobes to engage. Further, I don’t have a clue about cam physics. How does cam lobe shape and design impact holding power in sub optimal placements (e.g., tipped out vs. over camed)?
Enlighten me. I am more interested in hard numbers then nieve allegiance/bias towards a particular product. Granted CCH has had QC issues, but their base numbers on paper look good from a non scientific view point.
I just updated the CMS for the website late last week and just realized shortly after that none of the permalinks were working correctly. A little research along with some elbow grease fixed the problems and things are back to normal. Also, it’s been a long hiatus since I last posted. Hopefully, I get into a rythmn of regular posts again.
As a volunteer and all around fun open source web app project I have been working on enhancing the Leadville Trail 100 race series reporting capabilities. I competed in the Silver Rush 50 MTB last year and was quickly hooked by the compelling high altitude scenery. From the course to the competitors it was an all around blast. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me, but this project has been a blast too.
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