Tagged by Brenda, so…
I shall start at 1 and see how far I get - so in no particular order:
1. Convert my Flickr Screensaver to WPF.
I thought I’d start off with this as this is a mostly code related blog. I’ve written some small prototypes and it looks like it could be quite good. [...]
Exclusive: Mozilla Secretly Launches A Viral Campaign For Firefox
Techcrunch is reporting on an interesting video released by Mozilla about Firefox. Apparently Firefox users are 139% more likely to be rock climbers.
Well I’m a rock climber and I use Firefox. Mmm, must be true as its on the internet!
View the video direct on YouTube.
Also, in a [...]
— from sevennine - (?)
“If you’re not actively involved in getting what you want, you don’t really want it.” Peter McWilliams [via]
Never a truer word spoken in jest (or otherwise).
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Report on a lovely trip up the Wrynose Pass to Black Crag and Long Scar.
A brief trip to the bouldering park at Summerhills in Hartlepool.
Finally a days proper climbing outside, with photos!
Went to Scugdale on sunday. The weather was meant to be lovely and sunny (at least according to the mid-week forcast) but it turned out to be misty and windy, and a little bit cold.
Did a bit of bouldering to start with, some easy Diff problems on the east end (Beginners Wall Area) and then [...]
Just has (5/9/04) an absolutely brilliant day up at Wainstones. The weather was very sunny, with little or no breeze, but this didn’t really bother us until mid afternoon when water supplies where running down and the rock was hot to the touch.
Managed to lead some lovely routes, including Wall and Ledge (Diff ***) and [...]
Bank holiday monday saw us eager to get out climinbing again, and after drawing straws to see if we head south into the Cleveland hills or head north into Northumberland we set off north, hoping the weather would be nice.
We headed off for Great Wanney with our photocopied version of the guidebook. Found the place [...]
For our first trip climbing outdoors on our own we decided to go back to Brown Slabs at Shepherds Crag in the Lake District. We also decided to go back on August bank holiday weekend! Would this turn out to be a huge mistake, or would we survive!
We got to the Lakes by about 7.30pm, [...]
Sitting in after a trip to Rock Antics in the afternoon I decided to get out of the house and take in a trip to Northumberland. Having spotted Corby’s Crag in the bouldering guide recently it looked an ideal destination, with plenty of each graded bouldering to be had (B1/2 or 4c/5a).
I have to say [...]
Well first trip down to Rock Antics on Sunday (website under ‘construction’ - Very bad as they haven’t even left a phone number or address up - I would recommend phone number, email contact, address and opening times as a minimum).
The place is simply packed to the gills with walls, and each panel is covered [...]
Oh my, what a day!
As a birthday present I got bought a days climbing instruction. The instructor took us to Shepherd Crag in Borrowdale for what was possibly one of the best days of my life.
The instructor was good (Mountain Activity Company - Nick was excellent), the weather was bright and sunny (after some [...]
UKC Forums - camping in Northumberland
Another link to a UKClimbing post just so I can remember where it is - we only live in Gateshead but when it can take 2hours+ to get to some parts of Northumberland camping in the future might be an option.
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 [...]