http://joecrotty.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:24:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://joecrotty.com/retire/2008/12/02/update-on-life/ 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 ... http://joecrotty.com/tech/2008/11/06/another-web-server-upgrade/ 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 ... http://joecrotty.com/tech/2008/09/18/server-upgrade-notes/ 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 ... http://joecrotty.com/retire/2008/09/11/monarch-crest-trail-over-crowded-and-used/ 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. <a href ="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/825851/" >What action should be taken ... http://joecrotty.com/retire/2008/07/30/polldaddy-test/ 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 ... http://joecrotty.com/fire/2008/07/23/tech-cams-bd-vs-cch-vs-metolius/ 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 ... http://joecrotty.com/tech/2008/06/29/website-update-2/ 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 ... http://joecrotty.com/tech/2008/01/21/lt100-webapp/ It's been almost three full months now since I have switched my main home PC to a Mac. In a word I am very happy with the switch. The general consensus was the Dell Latitude D620 laptop that my wife and I were sharing for a year and ... http://joecrotty.com/tech/2008/01/03/apple-switch/ Have been busy the last few days making some minor modifications to the site. Improvements include shaping up the primary menu, adding resume in PDF format, making sense of the about page, fixing various broken HTML pieces, validate XHTML, and adding some underlying WordPress plugins to banish SPAM from ... http://joecrotty.com/tech/2007/11/24/website-update/