Iowa Christmas
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 … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2008
Firewall work complete
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 … Continue reading
Update on Life
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 … Continue reading
Another web server upgrade
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 … Continue reading
Server Upgrade Notes
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 … Continue reading
Monarch Crest Trail: Over crowded and used
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′ … Continue reading
PollDaddy test
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 … Continue reading
Tech Cams – BD vs CCH vs Metolius
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 … Continue reading
Website Update
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 … Continue reading
Leadville Trail 100 Results Query Engine
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 … Continue reading