Mattias Durnik bjuder på en intressant redogörelse över förändrade surfvanor — till stor del från mobilen.
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Man, he’s strong!
via All Climbing
If you’re eager to learn how to use all the new features in Rails 2.1, Carlos Brando just released a free book titled Ruby on Rails 2.1, What’s New?.
(photo borrowed from Sonnie Trotter. He got it from Hot Aches who filmed the ascent and I’m looking forward to seeing the result)
Yesterday Sonnie Trotter did the second ascent of Rhapsody.
It’s been amazing following his progress on his blog as he’s been working on the route.
There is a thread on the UKClimbing forums discussing the ascent.
Not that much of a surprise that the iPhone 3G was announced during yesterday’s keynote. I’ll have to wait and see what kind of deal the Swedish operator will give us before I decide if I want one or not…
I had expected a bit more from the keynote though, but on the other hand WWDC is a developer conference and this year there is a lot of focus on the iPhone SDK. So naturally they don’t want to ruin the hype around that by introducing some new aluminum MacBook or something similar.
In just a few hours (10am Pacific, 19:00 Swedish time) Steve Jobs will kick off the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference with the keynote speech.
MacRumors have compiled a roundup of the major rumors circulating before the event.
They are also reporting live from the keynote.
I was happy to read this morning in Sonnie Trotters blog that he and Cory have decided to postpone their return to Canada again, this time with another week. Hopefully the additional three to four climbing days will be enough for Sonnie to finally get to the top of Rhapsody. He’s getting closer and closer all the time and there is no doubt that he can do it. It’s just a matter of getting all the pieces to work together during one attempt.
Sonnie and Dave MacLeod are my inspiration when it comes to climbing hard traditional style. Naturally I am nowhere close to their levels, me being the happy hobby climber, but it’s anyhow fun to read about their projects, their hard work and the commitment they show.
I had a fun adventure last week when I tried to onsight a 6c mix-route at a local crag. There are two bolts during the first thin technical part of the route, after that there is another 6-7 meters to the top. From the safety of the second bolt I could see a potential placement 3 meters up but I would not know if I could use it until I climbed up there, way up over the bolt with a potential fall to the ground if I fell.
Pretty scary stuff. But it turned out to be a textbook cam placement so after I got that in and the rope clipped I felt quite relieved. Only to be rudely awoken again when I inspected the last 3-4 meters of climbing. Unfortunately no more placements, so it would be a rather long fall onto my recently placed cam if I would slip off before I clipped the anchor. Luckily the climbing proved to be easy even though the mental aspect made it more difficult than it really was.
This small adventure made me realize how big the mental aspect must be for Dave and Sonnie when they do their spectacular climbs. Not to mention the guys onsighting hard routes traditional style. That is really hard code!
No Schedules, No Meetings talks about Best Buy’s Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), the subject of a new book. Here’s an excerpt that explains why you should put on your “blizzard goggles” before attending a meeting.
One day, before ROWE, Phil was unable to come into work because of a snowstorm, which in Minnesota is perhaps the ultimate in socially acceptable excuses. Phil had six meetings scheduled for that day that were canceled because everyone was having trouble getting to the office. When he returned the next day, four of those meetings were never rescheduled. One was resolved with an e-mail, another with a phone call. He had spent much of his “snow day” worrying about those six meetings. He was ready to drive in and brave the weather in order to have them. Now that he’s in a ROWE he thinks about that snow day a lot. When an invitation to a meeting comes up or when he’s thinking about scheduling a meeting, he puts on his “blizzard goggles.” Is this meeting really necessary? If there were a snowstorm today, would that meeting fade away, or could it be taken care of with an e-mail, or, would it in fact prove to have genuine value?
via 37signals
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