Archive for April, 2005:

30 April 2005

Pakistan's decorated vehicles.

— Filed under Aside

29 April 2005

More toys

Boots & cramponsIt's like Christmas here at Saunders Towers. Today: custom-made ski boots (a big thank you to Alain Hubert) and ultra-light Trango crampons, all the way from California (a big thank you to Mountain Tools).

Any guesses where we're off to? (And no, it's not Antarctica. At least, not yet…)

— Filed under Miscellany

28 April 2005

Backpack. I can't wait for this – I have so much to organise in the next few months…

— Filed under Aside

28 April 2005

New tent

Hilleberg SaivoA brand spanking new Hilleberg Saivo, pitched for the first time on the roof outside my flat.

It'll be somewhere a little colder soon…

— Filed under Miscellany

28 April 2005

'Well, if you have to ask the question, you might not understand the answer.'

— Filed under Aside

25 April 2005

How to light a fire when all you have is a Coke can and some chocolate

— Filed under Aside

24 April 2005

'A 10 cm crack opened up in the ice under our tent overnight. Nobody heard anything due to the loud snoring noises coming from Petter Spiten!' – Børge Ousland's 'Last Degree' expedition report.

— Filed under Aside

23 April 2005

Always a little better, never perfect.

I saw a lady on the tube last week with a brown paper Camper carrier bag, with the words 'Always a little better, never perfect' printed on it.

Perhaps subliminally inspired by Camper's endearing strapline, I'm participating in this year's CSS Reboot. I love the idea behind this – several hundred people redesigning their websites for a May 1st deadline, for no other reason than they reckon what they have at the moment could be improved. I have two ideas currently on the go – one is a revamp of the current design, the second is a full-blown, start from scratch effort.

For those of you (especially those waiting for a response to one of the dozens of emails sitting in my '@Action' folder) wondering if there isn't something better I ought to be doing with my time than redesigning my website again, the answer's yes, of course there is, but in times of pressure, I'm finding tinkering with pages of code in TextWrangler oddly therapeutic.

I ought to finish with a quick thank you to the man behind CSS Reboot, Benjamin Adam (not least for listing my site as one of his top ten 'before' designs. No pressure, then…)

— Filed under Rumination

22 April 2005

'Like climbing an inverted Everest…'

— Filed under Aside

20 April 2005

After some very biased 'journalism' and an awful lot of hearsay on the subject of Russian Arctic logistics this year, Ann Daniels writes a frank, heartfelt and extremely touching first-hand review of what happened to the the three 'all-the-way' North Pole expeditions that were picked up last month.

— Filed under Aside

18 April 2005

Lance Armstrong is retiring in July.

— Filed under Aside

17 April 2005

3:02:47 according to the website, but I'm still happy…

— Filed under Aside

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