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Re: Are Dome Tents Best For Mountain Hiking?

houltmac — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:55:39 -0000

There are a lot of options out there and I realise that many UL guys will laugh at the thought of a "pop-up" tent, but hear me out.

MSR produce a line of tents called the Hubba's. They come in 1, 2 and 3 man varieties and while I use the 2 man I know Hendrik (hikinginfinland) has recommended the 1 man. These have a few benefits you may like such as options to use any combination of fly, inner and footprint to lighten the load. They also have quite vertical walls and can be entirely free standing. I've heard complaints regarding the number of guy ropes but it's not been an issue in my experience and I'm sure you'd overcome it anyway.

A new range has recently been released which are also interesting, but I only know the Hubba's personally. They are fairly light, strong, versatile and while they may not be UL cool, they do fit the criteria while being far more comfortable than the Tera Nova's (not that I'd say no to them either mind you).

Re: What is your favorite Twitter application for the iPhone?

houltmac — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:46:58 -0000

Thanks. I can't wait to read yours. I enjoy discussing twitter clients way too much ;)

Re: What is your favorite Twitter application for the iPhone?

houltmac — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:31:49 -0000

I use Twitterrific mostly, but I also love other twitter clients. I added some reasoning to the bottom of my blog post about the search for twitter push heaven http://is.gd/1G7eY

Re: lucamacis.com

houltmac — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:16:02 -0000

Have you tried using something like Posterous which will allow you to email the photos from either your phone or your Mac, and will then also allow you to comment as much as you like in the body of the email? Subject lines become headlines, you can use HTML email and it will convert or you can write out HTML long hand in a plain text email if you want too. Simple!

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - …and so the move from Thurderbird back to apple...

houltmac — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:04:07 -0000

Why the changes? How come you couldn't do hosted IMAP?

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - a good morning followed by a horrible afternoon. A...

houltmac — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:41:39 -0000

I'm off on Friday so if you have some time I'd like to see what setup you have right now. I never did come and see it at Christmas.

Re: iLife 09

houltmac — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:33:06 -0000

It's working great here for me. It seems to me that it takes about 20 photos before it gets really good and things like glasses and long (face covering) hair can put it off.

I also hear that the ones you draw manually don't count towards making it smarter, only the auto-recognised ones.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - what? hereford? two? leeds? nill? crumbs - we’re...

houltmac — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:46:52 -0000

Don't get too cocky, we are talking about Hereford here after all.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - out web hosts are trying IMAP at our request, but...

houltmac — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:15:00 -0000

OMG! Teh suck.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - new simpsons intro blows chunks. bring back coke...

houltmac — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:11:08 -0000

That sucked. Could've warned me.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - Rainbow in the boardroom: i had to.

houltmac — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:13:07 -0000

That just had to be done!

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - This is a short video showing the socket server...

houltmac — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:21:21 -0000

Is this what you have been secretly working on?

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - lol, am 21217th most sweary twitter user! fuckers....

houltmac — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:41:41 -0000

Apparently I swear like a "Bad Golf Player". Bah. I am actually trying to do something about it IRL.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - new kindle looks better, but my oh my amazon can’t...

houltmac — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:34:14 -0000

Can you even get the kindle in the UK now?

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - happy 1234567890 day nerdos. watch this space for...

houltmac — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:25:46 -0000

No email to remind me meant that I forgot didn't I? Darn it!

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - wow.. new blog (http://danvesma.tumblr.com) got...

houltmac — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:39:16 -0000

You see, when you tell people they read ;)

Re: Now Supporting Posterous

houltmac — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:25:01 -0000

This is what introduced me to BackType. Now I am addicted. Thanks!

Oh, and I just removed Disqus from my Tumblr because I couldn't keep track of comments. Great.

Re: E-mail as an Alert System

houltmac — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:14:07 -0000

I have to agree with this completely. Tools like Twitter search and BackType allow the internet to become smaller, like RSS did before that. With discussion aggregation I think these services could overtake the syndication meme.

Re: Burn movies to DVD?

houltmac — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:38:22 -0000

Thanks for the tips Luca, I will look into those apps.

Re: From Heaven of Tea: Understanding Caffeine in Tea

houltmac — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:35:40 -0000

That's a good little round up. I can say from a VERY heavy coffee drinker turned tea drinker - the difference between a cup of black tea and a cup of strong coffee is huge. The % may look impressive, but the feeling you have by the middle of the week is drastically different.

Re: TWIT [This Week In Tea]

houltmac — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:34:21 -0000

@phil It's a bit of both for sure, however it's more the tea I think. When you quit smoking the taste buds react within days, and they do so with a vengeance. Most of this is getting used to not drinking actual sugar (since the other sweet drinks I have are artificial) I think.

I am enjoying it though. Perhaps you should join me?

Re: Crispy Tea Leaf

houltmac — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:28:54 -0000

It's definitely been added to my list - thanks for the review. I have a bunch more teas on order, but it's on the list.

I got the "Tea infusing tube" from Leaf (www.leafshop.co.uk) yesterday and have been surprised and impressed. It works well, is clean and will make tea at work much easier. Might be worth a review sometime. Also, I'd be interested to know what you make of Adagio's Irish Breakfast since it's currently my favourite tea/

Re: Tea order arrived!

houltmac — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:23:34 -0000

Thanks for your input, Pat, it's appreciated. I am using a little more than I did previously now and it's tasting a little better. Measuring or guessing a teaspoon is easy with fine grained leaves like in the herbals, but in the woodier black teas it's tough.

I am still getting used to not having sugar for sure, but I'm trying to work my way through that. The darker the better so far, I'll keep trying.

Re: Crispy Tea Leaf

houltmac — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:38:31 -0000

I have to adree with halogoggles, it was nice to have a single tea in an episode. It was also quite funny to see the lid fall off since I am new to tea and it's good to know I'm not the only one who can make mistakes.

Re: Learn 5.1 from Dolby

houltmac — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:09:47 -0000

Good to know the blog has helped someone, somehow. :)