"Offwidth crack /n./ remark made in a smartass manner."
- Definitions on climbing
Very sad news for all those ultra folks who prepared like crazy for this lifetime testpiece but better for the safety of everyone involved. Cheers to all.
This is the first time that the event is organized here and it was a total success. A lot of people attended and all the conference rooms were at full capacity. Congrats to the organizers.
Morning was about a couple of keynote sessions where we heard a brief history of the Internet, Google, their evolution and future trends, then a quick description of the products/areas where Google is opening their platforms/APIs: Gadgets, Gears, Web Toolkit, App Engine, Data API, YouTube, OpenSocial, Android, Maps & KML.
After a nice lunch provided by the organizers, I attended the following talks in the afternoon: Google App Engine by Paul McDonald, iGoogle + Google Gadgets by Bruno Bowden, From Mashups to Mapplets and Google Maps API by Pamela Fox. Speakers gave superb presentations and were very open to answer every question the attendees had, even after the sessions.
It was a productive day where we learned a lot and which opened the doors to new development possibilities 
She panicked out a little bit when I left her with Cova and the gang so I could climb on the back side of the cliff to setup the top-rope. She did whatever possible to scramble up the hill so she could be closer to me until she was stopped by 5 meters of really vertical rock. As soon as I went down the cliff everything went to normal as she understood that the game consisted of everybody taking turns to go up the rock then down.
Despite the rain that came so early at noon, we had a great day, doing some easy climbing and enjoying nature
You can take a look at the pics here.
Of course I didn’t had any place from where to grab personal tags for creating a cloud. When I started this blog, tags weren’t even used and I was very lazy to adopt the concept when they appeared. Also, I’ve given del.icio.us a couple of tries before, but it never really convinced me of switching from the “old school” Mozilla-based bookmarking system.
So how did I solved the problem? A couple of easy tricks (which are not the subject of this post): imported my Firefox bookmarks into del.icio.us, then manually cleaned a couple of the auto-generated tags that had nothing to do with myself, copied them into a text file, parsed the lines with an easy Perl script to print the number of occurrences for each tag and voila!
I finally pasted the results into the Wordle interface and this is the result, I called it arareko’s world:
It was weird and funny to watch the dog slowly walking over the grass following a big black furry thing that moved in front of her nose. I think the spider was more afraid of Mokka, but in the end, each of them continued their way without making a lot of trouble. Of course, I picked up the spider and left it in a safer place, such as the nearby forest…
The rest of the pics can be seen here.
The race started at 9 p.m. despite the heavy rain that fell in Mexico City. As always, it was an entertaining course and the runners had a lot of good attitude. We finished soaking wet but with a huge grin in our faces because of the pleasant journey.
Congrats go to Caro & Gil who finished in one piece their first (and hopefully not last) race! 
It turns out that no one has a record from when that account was created, so the password remains a mystery. I know it’s a good practice to not write down the passwords because of security concerns but, this is ridiculous…
Now I’ll have to find out a different way to access the data without having to use the last and infallible resort: reset the password 
Today, they launched the first version of GolST, a website dedicated to every Soccer fan, providing all sorts of stats and allowing the users to customize the interface so they see what they want to see.
Congratulations and the best of luck with this new project!
On another topic, today I fought my way through one very annoying “feature” in Mac OS X: its filesystem. When you perform a fresh install of Mac OS X, you can choose between different filesystems for the new disk partition. In Leopard, you have the option to use Journaled Case-sensitive HFS+, which “in theory”, should be the most UNIX-compatible filesystem option for the Mac. Wrong choice…
It turns out that everything worked perfectly until I wanted to install a couple of commercial applications, like those made by Adobe. It seems like such applications have a big amount of hard-coded data which makes the software virtually impossible to install in a case-sensitive filesystem. Until now, Adobe is reluctant to fix the issue and the only solution they suggest is to use a case-insensitive filesystem to install their software. That means reformatting the hard drive. Pain… no way!
Fortunately, the OS installation DVD comes with the Disk Utility, which is an application that allows you to manage the computer’s hard drive and its partitions. All I had to do was to shrink the current partition, then used the free space to create a new one where I imaged the whole OS as well as my documents and settings, so I could re-format the original partition using Journaled Case-insensitive HFS+. Finally, I re-imaged all my stuff into the new filesystem, erased the backup partition and restored the original partition’s size. The computer booted perfectly fine and all my stuff was ready to be used again.
The whole process took me about 4 hours to be completed, but at least I didn’t had to re-install everything from scratch and customize it, and also, I was able to install the software that I wanted
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Disclaimer: Issue 13 was our sport-climbing issue. We hope you didn't miss it.
Taken from Alpinist #14
