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{ Monthly Archives } June 2004

Local Climbing Walls

Sunderland Wall
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but I (and my wife) currently frequent Sunderland Wall for our weekly climbing fix (well, twice a week usually).
We’ve been going about 5 months now and have been steadily improving, climbing bigger and bigger wall, harder routes and things on bigger overhangs.
I can’t really compare Sunderland [...]

Getting through my work proxy

Well, finally managed to get W.Bloggar working from work. Seems it really doesn’t like the NTLM proxty we have here and isn’t providing my username/passsword correctly.
Thankfully found this post pointing me at a piece of software which does just what I want - it acts as a pre-proxy proxy. Its called Ap Server (don’t ask [...]

Success with the A70 as a webcam

Following on from my post about the hope of getting my Canon A70 to work as a webcam using the Cam4you utilities I can report some measure of success.
However I really would need a power supply for my camera, a longer usb cable to connect to the camera, and a better tripod than the crappy [...]

Climbing near Newcastle/Durham

I’m only posting these here so I can find them again, but here are some posts on UK Climbing website regarding climbing areas near Newcastle and Durham.
Easy climbs near Durham
Northumberland - suggestions
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Edit: Then found this link.

16metres and climbing

I remember the first moment I successfully managed to complete a 10metre route at the local climbing wall. It was a triumphant moment - especially as I was about 2 weeks behind the lovely wife in this task.
The climbing wall has lots of wall. There is a bouldering wall that reaches about 4m, then an [...]