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High Sierra Trail

Len — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:02:04 +0000

We’re heading to Sequoia National Park, California to hike the High Sierra Trail, out over Mount Whitney. Follow our trip on The Thorofare. Select High Sierra Trail – 2010 from the trip drop down, beginning on Thursday, August 5th.

MY RUNS fixed.

Len — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:24:05 +0000

I had to totally re-write it. I’m done with Nike+, everything is now coming off of Runkeeper. Of course Runkeeper does not publish, nor document, an API, so I had to figure it out myself. It works…..at least until Runkeeper changes something.

It is more accurate now as Runkeeper is based on the iPhone’s GPS as opposed to the Nike+ pedometer. I only started using Runkeeper around February of this year, so the transition was complicated by the fact that I had to keep the old Nike+ data around in order to have the correct history.

Less than 2 weeks till Muddy Buddy!

Len — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:48:48 +0000

As the title says, there is less than 2 weeks till Muddy Buddy, Chicago. I’ve been running some, not enough, but some. Today was my first Muddy Buddy-type workout. Rode my bike 2.5 miles, ran 2 miles, and rode my bike another 2.5 miles. Now if I can do that every day for the next 2 weeks, I might be alright!

Trekkingpoleenvy.com

Len — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:24:09 +0000

Check out my trip report from our Grand Canyon trek on Trekkingpoleenvy . Two installments so far, in reverse order on the site. This company is a guide service for the Grand Canyon and other Arizona destinations.

Back.

Len — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:57:49 +0000

Back from the Bahamas. Great time, great weather, great food, great resort, less than great gambling.

On my way to the Bahamas….

Len — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:27:34 +0000

Hopefully we’ve dodged the hurricanes and we can get out of O’hare, there’s been torrential rains here. Be back on Friday.

What happened to firehole?

Len — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:52:56 +0000

If you’re reading this you might have noticed that firehole was offline all weekend. This is what happened:

(Saturday 9:15 pm, U.S. Pacific time):

When the recent incident occurred it caused an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Apparently the transformer was very close to our facility as this event also started an electrical fire within our data center’s electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no servers were damaged or lost.

We have only recently been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the incident led to a short in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.

This is a significant outage, impacting hundreds of LinkSky hosted accounts. All members of our data center team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.

I am sorry that this accident has occurred and I apologize for the impact.

Ouch! Anybody that works in technology knows that this is your worst nightmare. Although being offline for 48 hours is not good, it could have been worse. I will say that Linksky kept everybody informed and appeared to work around the clock to rectify the situation.

Grand Canyon Backcountry News

Len — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:38:46 +0000

New Site Feature: On the right sidebar you will find an automated feed of backcountry news from the NPS Grand Canyon website. Clicking on the link will bring you to the page where you can read the details.

GNP2003 Trip Report, finally!

Len — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:44:46 +0000

Ok, it’s kind of done. I still need to add captions on the pictures when they’re expanded, but besides that it’s done. John’s commentary included.

Check it out by selecting “Glacier Roadtrip II, 2003″ from the Trip Reports on the left. Let me know if you have any problems because I haven’t tested it in all browsers.

New look for firehole.us

Len — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:59:17 +0000

This is the new look for the firehole.us website. Trip reports on the left, weather on the right, other stuff when I get around to it. New forum software too, all posts and logon ids have been ported over. Sorry, the forums remain private.

If you want you can sign up (upper right column) to be notified via email when new things are posted.

Adios, Len