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The show was scheduled for early in the afternoon, having The Light of Dark as the opening band at around 4:30 p.m., which after a couple of songs left the stage to give room to the polish death metal virtuosos. There weren’t too many people in the venue (Circo Volador), only about 300 die-hard fans who were more than ready to bang their heads with the band’s extremely technical music.

The highlights from their setlist (or what I’m able to remember after losing so many neurons at the mosh pit) were: A Poem About An Old Prison Man, Three Dimensional Defect, The Fury, Lying and Weak, The Negation, Nihility (Anti-Human Manifesto), Post(?)Organic, Winds Of Creation, Mother War, Spheres Of Madness and Day 69.

As with any other good death metal concert, being in the middle of the mosh pit was dangerous, violent, fun, hypnotizing and relieving. Another great thing about it was that the band spent time with their fans before and after the show, drinking beer, signing CD’s and having fun. They promised to be back in December, we’ll see…

Here are some nice pictures of the band in action taken by Frodo.

It was such an important event to be missed. All of us, the closest friends, were celebrating there and having some excellent time together, as always… It’s great to be back home

We started running fast all the way up on University Av., then turned right to look for Moore St. and the entrance to the beautiful ravine.

Once the course started to get down hilly at the ravine, I got a severe cramp on my left shin. It got so bad that I had to stop and stretch my leg for a couple of minutes. It didn’t really went away completely, so I decided to stand up and continue running, since I noticed that stopping was causing the cramp to be more severe. After a couple of km, the tension and the pain ceased, so I was able to get back to enjoy the run.

It started to rain heavily during the last 2 km, it was a very refreshing rain. We got soaking wet to the hotel, but with a huge grin on our faces. Runner’s high, you know…

When you first fire up your editor and start writing a program, it’s tempting to hardcode any settings or configuration so you can focus on the real task of getting the thing working. But as soon as you have users, even if the user is only yourself, you can bet there will be things they want to choose for themselves.

A search on CPAN reveals almost 200 different modules dedicated to option processing and handling configuration files. By anyone’s standards that’s quite a lot, certainly too many to evaluate each one…

Perl.com: Option and Configuration Processing Made Easy

For his eighth big wall first ascent in the Andes, Pavle Kozjek and Grega Kresal—who climbed Chacraraju’s 700m east face (VII, A2) with him in 1993—made the first ascent of the east face of Puscantrupa Este (5410m), a remote peak in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. The peak is located in the extreme southeast corner of Huayhuash, a great distance from standard western approaches (villages Chiquian and Llamac). The new line, Stonehenge (VII+ 70 degree ice, 10 pitches, 600m), ascends a wall that had not been attempted for over twenty years. It is likely the second ascent of the peak. Kozjek and Kresal completed the climb in fourteen hours roundtrip on July 6, in pure alpine style…

Source: Alpinist Magazine.

Apparently, I’ll not be able to post anything for the rest of the week I’m going to be here in Canada…

We woke up early on Sunday and decided to go for a run so that Güero could give me a tour around the city and show me all the places he used to hang around when he lived there some years ago. After a little bit more than 2 hours of running under a very light rain, we finished a 25 km course around many of the interesting places. I’ve become a big fan of touring cities by running!

After stopping in Ottawa for taking some pictures of the beautiful sunset, we drove back all the way West to Toronto in the middle of a huge storm. It didn’t matter, we were happy as kids after having such a pleasant day.

After almost 3 hours of climbing and running I decided it was good enough for the day and came back home. Mixed training makes me feel good without thrashing my whole body in a single effort

Judith and I went to Aculco for camping and some bouldering. I was in a real need of getting far away from human chaos and get some ideas ordered, next to the campfire. Despite all the rain, the bouldering wasn’t bad at all. We managed to do some good progress on our pending problem Jetstream (V6), I was almost able to top it out when it started to rain again.

It was a comfortable 1-night escape from the outside world, while repairing the inside one.