Its true. I’ve been caught training! Photos from a glorious paddle around the winter challenge kayak course are now in the gallery. Check ‘em out!
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Playtime!
Riding resources!
13 July 2007 – 11:40 am
My friend Dan sent a link to a web site where you can map trail routes. it’s cool! So, in celebration here is one of my commute loops from home to work and back…
I started paddling this morning, training for a 12km race next week. I am going to die….
The great global warming what??
2 July 2007 – 7:20 pm
Ah joy. In the name of ‘balance’, I guess, the ABC is about to give Australian viewers the privilege of watching ‘the great global warming swindle’ [TGGWS] – a ‘documentary’ that supposedly exposes the ‘fraud’ of global warming, and the great anti-development conspiracy that underpins it.
Oh, and which 99% climate scientists belong to, of course.
‘Global warming’ is a kind of unfortunate catch phrase, that can be deconstructed far too easily. For example, you can point at East Antarctica, which isn’t really warming at all. However, a few thousand kilometres away, the Antarctic Peninsula is getting quite a bit warmer – at least since we’ve been measuring. The real story is more complex – as discussed in this National Geographic article. Some warming, some cooling…
Anyway, here’s a decent rebuttal of TGGWS. Have a read, form an opinion.
Whichever way you cut the climate cake, the bottom line is that us homo sapiens are rapidly trashing this little planet. The good news is that we can do something about it pretty easily. Do you *really* need that new [insert product here]? Can you walk there instead of driving?
Simple stuff, really.
Antarctica!
28 June 2007 – 3:39 pm
Wooohoo! My contract here at the AAD has been renewed – I’m officially fit, and therefore, will be sailing off to the sea ice in September. I don’t quite know what to think – it’s really, really exciting!
Side B to that little snippet is that I’ll be in tassie for another 11 Months – until June 2008. So come and visit, except if it happens to be in September this year. I won’t be home…
A new journal for a new age…
12 June 2007 – 8:01 pm
iHola! This little journal is back again. Finally I got tired of writing code and just decided to play with someone else’s. Yay!
Tank, or Tom, or Tonk, and I just walked the Overland Track in three days. I’ll post some photos somewhere soonish, but needless to say it was great fun, even if a little more strenuous that I would have usually liked. I’d recommend you take ten days or more.
Anyway, better go for a climb. Its truly time to get away from the machine. Seeya!