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I went rock climbing in Leavenworth on Sunday which was absolutely fantastic. It was probably the best climbing experience I've had outdoors so far. We left at around 8:30, got there at 11 or so, and didn't end up leaving until 5:30. I climbed some pretty hard routes and finished a couple as well, so I was pretty happy with how I did overall. I did manage to completely trash my hands, legs, and muscles though. Climbing outdoors is so very, very different from climbing in the gym. I'd almost say it's harder because there aren't easily marked routes for you to go. It is certainly more gorgeous though. Being in the woods with snow around you on a 75-80 degree day climbing big boulders is nothing short of amazing. I have a bunch of pictures, some of which include me on said boulders which I'll have to upload and post sometime today (hopefully). I think a couple of them came out really well. I need to take my tripod next time, which I keep forgetting. I'm also jonesing for some new lenses, but that's so not going to happen if only because they're ludicrously expensive. I hear there might be one or two good ones I should pick up for $150 or so, but I'll have to talk to my camera expert friends before I go traipsing through that field. Tags: climbing, leavenworth
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I found out that Livejournal is no longer offering free accounts. This makes me incredibly sad. What makes it even worse is that ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) brad, the founder, advised against this move. I really hate it when companies ask people their opinions and then just completely ignore it. It doesn't make sense to me. What I also dislike are companies who try to maximize their profits so much that in the process they lose their userbase because of the change in how the company is run. The whole entire point of free (with no ads) accounts is that they bring in all of the content that the paying customers want to see/use. With no free accounts anymore without ads, I'm willing to bet that less people will come to the site, and in the process, a whole bunch of people that are already here are pissed about it. I'm seriously considering moving my journal now because of this. I'm worried that my protected and private entries are no longer safe from being looked at by the staff. It's a slippery slope, and nothing I've seen from Livejournal since Brad has been gone has been going in the right direction. I don't see any more cool, bad-ass projects like memcache, openid, or any of the other millions of projects he's created and worked on coming down the pipeline. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong spot now, but it seems like a lot of people are leaving or just don't work on livejournal anymore that I think can steer the ship in the right direction. Kind of sad, especially since I bought a permanent account a while back. I remember sending an e-mail to Brad telling him why I purchased it and how I hoped his open source, do the right thing, method would continue. Looks like this may not be the case for long anymore :(. Tags: livejournal, sad
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I haven't made a post in a while, so I figure I should rectify that. I've been keeping busy at work, we're moving into slight crunch mode right now, so I've been in on the weekend once or twice. Nothing too bad yet, so I'm not terribly stressed out or anything, but I can see a bigger crunch coming down the road. It happens and as long as it's not too long I don't mind. I've been programming at home again for the first time in a LONG time. I'm not just starting something and then getting frustrated with it and putting it down either. I've made a lot of progress on my configuration utility so far, which excites me quite a bit. Unfortunately, I've run into a weird issue with visual studio in which if you do a pre-build event (run the configuration utility), it won't allow the state of the build to change. In essence, I can't change the files and expect it to rebuild if the thing changing the files is part of the pre-build step. Lame. I've found a supposed workaround which is to have project A depend on project B and then have project B do the pre-build step for project A, which seems to work. The weird thing is that if I run it, std::ofstream claims it can't open the file to write it. I searched for a while to figure out if it can possibly give an error code as to why this is, but it doesn't seem like there is one. It sets a fail bit, but that doesn't tell me a damn thing. Lame. Hopefully once Habib gets back to me about how he managed to do it in Bossinabox (I can't figure out how he managed to do it even though I have the source code), I'll be able to get past that little problem. The weirdest part is if I run it from the command line (or anywhere else for that matter), it works fine... just not as a pre-build or post-build step. I've been cooking much more lately, having made ratatouille, enchiladas, chile, and a quinoa casserole. I've been enjoying it much more since having gotten a bunch of vegetarian cook books from my parents for my birthday. I've been doing the cook on Thursday thing for the house again, which is nice. It gets me to try other stuff, especially since I've been letting them choose the meal instead of me picking it. Climbing is going well; I can't wait for summer to come so I can go outdoors more. It's going to be fantastic. Saw Say Anything in concert yesterday at Neumos, which was REALLY good. The bands before them were all just ok, but they really played well. I didn't care for their new stuff as much (probably because I don't know it nearly as well), but their older stuff was fantastic. Tags: life
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