Uninspired

Lesley and I went "rock" climbing at Rock Oasis yesterday. It was a difficult experience for me, chiefly because I suffer from a most unbelievable vertigo. Ironically, this fear does not manifest itself in high buildings or airplanes, just when I am climbing up the side of a cliff.

Prior to climbing the safety systems were explained in detail, one thing I noticed though, was that for all the redundancy in the knots and harness there is a staggering lack of fault tolerance in the pulley or the rope. If either of those had failed... well a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Anyway I have decided to make a go of writing an article for 2600 Magazine inspired as it were by a particularly badly written article about building your own home network. (My article would probably be on building a proper fault tolerant Internet access using BGP to ensure availability across multiple Internet connections.) If I do get it written, I will not use a hacker alias, and I will cross post it to this blog.

On an unrelated note, Andrew thanks for the skating advice, I will attempt to remember it next time I am on the trail.