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Archive for 2005
An aspiring author
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Land wars and other design problems
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005Greg Storey talks about landwars and other design problems over at A List Apart. Worth a read if you’re a designer, and one if you’re not.
Hat tip: “NIXON*NOW”:http://www.nixlog.com/.
Bad Food
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005Thursday Susan and I were feeling lazy. Both having come home late from work, Susan bought some food at the local DSB fast food joint on the way home. Dinner was ok, but not terribly inspiring and we soon went to bed. Around 1 am we both woke up with stomach pains. For more than an hour we were both incapacitated by the pain, shivers, and general discomfort. I still don’t know how I fell asleep again, but I actually ended up sleeping the rest of the night. All of Friday my stomach was acting up and I couldn’t eat anything but Apples and shredded carrots. Today I finally feel alright, albeit a bit hungry, and I think we’ve both learned our lesson: No more DSB burgers.
Back in the Game
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005It’s been a while since I injured my finger, about a month actually. The finger on my right hand quickly stopped being sore, while my other injured finger kept being an annoyance. Last week, however, that too stopped hurting. Finally, I was pain free. A celebration was called for, and yesterday I went climbing once again, and with the help of quite a bit of sports tape it was without problems.
I didn’t climb very hard, and to tell the truth, I couldn’t. It’s been a while since I’ve had a long time off, and I had no endurance. I quickly became busted and couldn’t even pull moderately heavy moves (only body heavy, not finger heavy, I’m not an idiot).
I’ve also had a minor education in finger taping, including this article. I think I’ll be ok, and can’t wait to get out again.
We’re screwed
Monday, October 10th, 2005I saw a picture of the new official logo of the US over at kontraband. I think it’s accurate for pretty much any government though.
Xenophobia
Saturday, October 8th, 2005There has been a lot of tumult here in Denmark the past few weeks, the source of which was the politician Louise Frevert. Lousie Frevert is a member of parliament for the Danish People’s Party (DPP), but is also their main candidate as the mayor of Copenhagen (there are local elections in November).
(more…)Micro SD
Monday, September 26th, 2005As part of my work I get to use different memory cards for mobile phones. Today I got my hands on a new one, the Micro SD card (or transflash as SanDisk call them). It is tiny, it’s dimensions are 15 × 11 × 1 mm, that’s right it’s almost as small as a fingernail. Can’t wait to see what they think of next.
Thoughts
Sunday, September 25th, 2005Inspired by the sidenotes, or asides or whatever, of Michael and Joen I decided to hack together my own version. It’s a way for me to throw thoughts onto my blog. They will evolve, and slowly (maybe) spread to places other than the front page. The thoughts themselves are normal entries and show up as normal entries everywhere but the front page (so far).
Update: For the full benefit you should view the front page in either Safari or Firefox, at least until Internet Explorer starts supporting the :before and :after pseudo elements.
Man on Segway
Sunday, September 25th, 2005I saw a man on a segway today. I didn’t even know you could get a segway in Denmark. Of course with the global community anything is possible. Looked like he was having fun too.
Finger Pains
Sunday, September 18th, 2005Finger injuries are dreaded by all climbers, and for good reason. Even a minor finger injury can ground a climber for weeks, even months. Still, finger injuries are by far the most common injuries suffered by climbers.
Of all the possible injuries to fingers, climbers all know the pulley related injuries. Fingers contain no muscles, only tendons which are connected to the muscles in the forearms. To keep the tendons fixed along the length of the fingers, a number of sheaths (or pulleys) circumvent the bone in 5 places. With the extreme pressures put on our fingers when we climb it’s only natural that the pulleys sometimes get overloaded resulting in partial or full tears, or a simple strain.
The point of this minor lesson in fingers sports physiology is that I am currently a victim of a pulley strain or partial tear on two fingers, one on each hand. My injury happened at a friendly competition here in Copenhagen last Saturday. Foolishly, I thought I could go out and do some light climbing Wednesday, but after only a simple travers and one easy problem I knew it was a mistake. I will now listen better to my body, and take a longer break from climbing. In the interim I will look for other venues to let out some of my energy. I’ve just started pilates because I wanted to see what all the fuzz was about, and I think I’ll start running again to better my shape. Hopefully this period away from climbing will just lead to weakness and frustration once I come back.
