Denali and Hunter
Team Midnight Meat Train may tackle the West Ridge of Mt. Hunter after the West Rib of Denali, time permitting. Hopefully it all builds toward the Cassin next year.
Curtis Jones
Winter in Atlanta
A week in snow-covered New Hampshire, where people just function. Then home to Atlanta, where a few square inches of sidewalk ice get more salt than ice and two orange safety cones. Winter is a little different down here.
Alaska #4
It's settled. My fourth Alaska trip kicks off May 5, ninety-three days out. The team has a name: Midnight Meat Train.
Getting and Setting a File's Extended Attributes
One last code snippet: getting and setting a file's extended attributes on OS X, wrapped in ARC-dependent Objective-C around setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr. Pass in an NSString or NSData and go.
OS X Computer Name and Local Host Name
Two Objective-C functions for reading a Mac's computer name and local host name out of the SCPreferences file. The docs say to lock the file first; I never could, and I suspect that's a root-only trick.
Human Readable File Size & Duration
Objective-C for turning a byte count into a human-readable file size (Finder-style, powers of ten), plus helpers for formatting durations as hh:mm:ss.sss from milliseconds or a pair of timevals.
Denali Expedition 2011
The following is a compilation of posts related to my self-guided Denali expedition in 2011. This also includes posts related to planning as well as the climbing journal posts.
Denali 2010 ChangesMy part-time Denali team wants a return trip in 2010, so here are my notes, mostly aimed at shaving
Sparkle Automation with Xcode 4
Adding Sparkle for automatic updates is mostly painless, but each release means code signing, XML edits, and zipping. Here's a build script to automate the whole Sparkle publish step in Xcode 4.
Metal Tornado
You haven't witnessed true cinema greatness until you've endured Metal Tornado. I won't spoil the ending, except to say Philadelphia was saved and Paris was not so lucky.
New Bike
A birthday spent unhappily in town, softened by a new Civia Bryant. I ditched the lingering '70s tech of chains, cantilevers, and derailleurs for a belt drive, internal gear hub, and disc brakes. A thing of beauty.
