Techotek! belongs to a guy in Hong Kong who has tramped all over the hills nearby. I’m posting this one for LittlePo because I know she can read the Chinese posts. Techotek’s hiking pix are here.
Blogs
Blogging with Flickr
by tmangan • November 13, 2006 • 3 Comments
I post tons of pix over on my main homepage, and up until recently I would studiously crop and resize each picture for upload to my hosted domain. Even with the pictures optimized for minimum byte usage, eventually they’ll fill…
Essential blogging tool: Mozilla Firefox 2.0
by tmangan • November 13, 2006 • 2 Comments
I downloaded Version 2 of Mozilla Firefox the other day an I’m liking what I’m seeing. Two features make my blogging life happy: Inline spell-checker: It’ll flag any misspelled words you type into a Web form, which makes it especially…
Another bi-lingual hiking blog
by tmangan • November 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Trekking Lab is an Italian hiking blog that has thoughtfully linked here, and even more thoughtfully has started offering English translations. Here’s an interesting tip from a post about orienteering: Parabolic Antenna: if you find a mountain hut with a…
Lots o’ links
by tmangan • November 6, 2006 • 2 Comments
Rick of Best Hikes has been racking up a ton of great posts of late. To wit: The World’s Most Dangerous Tourist Route Fast vs. slow hiking in a group. Paria, the best canyon hike in the world. Hiking the…
Why are we blogging?
by tmangan • November 4, 2006 • 2 Comments
I noticed that Chris Clarke of the Creek Running North blog has gone on hiatus. I can understand the temptation, having put my share of blogs and other sites in mothballs because I had run out of the time/energy/interest required…
National Parks links
by tmangan • November 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
Gadling linked to USA-C2C.com, the site of a guy and his wife who are traveling to every national park and most national historic sites. Their site has rankings on amenities, scenic splendor, accessibility and other stuff of interest to tourist…
Why Teddy Roosevelt was way cool
by tmangan • November 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
Happened across this quote attributed to him: “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the…
Another Scoutmaster blog
by tmangan • November 2, 2006 • 1 Comment
A Scout’s Campfire is the blog of a 40-something former Eagle Scout who is now an assistant Scoutmaster in North Carolina. (Link via Scoutmaster). Yesterday the Campfire covered the ever-popular How Safe Is Backwoods Water? debate, and today’s entry links…