Posted in climbing on February 27th, 2009 7 Comments »
On behalf of the Data.Text team, I am delighted to announce the release of preview versions of two new packages:
text 0.1
Fast, packed Unicode text support, using a modern stream fusion framework.
text-icu 0.1
Augments the text package with comprehensive character set conversion support and normalization (and soon more), via bindings to the ICU library.
These packages fill out [...]
Posted in climbing, slice-o-life on October 8th, 2008 12 Comments »
A few months ago, I tore the A4 pulley tendon in my right ring finger in a climbing accident. Yesterday, I had it reconstructed (completely ruptured tendons don’t heal) with a graft of tendon from my forearm. I can currently only type with one hand, so if I owe you an email, please be patient.
I [...]
Posted in climbing on October 18th, 2006 1 Comment »
Having not set hand or foot on an honest-to-god rock in well over a year, I was full of uncertainty last weekend as Tony and I left San Francisco, bound for four days of climbing near Bishop.
A few flurries of snow in Tuolumne Meadows forced us to detour over Sonora Pass. Not having passed [...]
Posted in climbing on December 19th, 2004 No Comments »
I’ve decided that there’s no reason to wait until January to start obsessing about climbing again. For the past several months, I’ve become increasingly discouraged as my climbing ability has slowly slipped backwards.
Last weekend, I went to Pinnacles with the usual suspects and didn’t feel like leading anything, not even a 5.9. This [...]
