Canada
Hike to Esja / Þverfellshorn peak
On my last day in Iceland, I went up the Esja, which is the mountain range north of Reykjavik. There are various trails there with a great view on the city.
Iceland
I was in Iceland for a few days last week. I had wanted to go there for a long time. It was great.
Cirque du Fer à Cheval
Last sunday I went for a hike in a place called the “Cirque du Fer à Cheval”, in Haute-Savoie. It is surrounded by mountains (unfortunately, I didn’t see much of them because of the fog) and has many waterfalls, that feed the torrent called Giffre. It is a very pleasant walk, almost flat, except at the end of the Cirque, that is known as the “Bout du monde” (“World’s End” in French) where the path becomes a bit steep. The view is worth it though.
Pays de Gex
Last saturday, I went for a bicycle ride in the Pays de Gex, where I live. I took a few pictures. Some are shown after the jump.
Via Rhona: Geneva to Haute-Savoie along the Rhône by bike
Last week, on the day of the “Jeûne Genevois”, I went for a ride along the Rhône following (loosely) the route known as Via Rhona, that goes from Geneva to the town of Valleiry in Haute-Savoie (actually it is just a segment: The complete Via Rhona goes from the Rhône Glacier to the Mediterranean Sea) . I had already tried it before but I was not able to finish it then. Now I went all the way and, although it was quite cloudy with occasional rain, I had a great time.
Nanga Parbat
I received some time ago a complimentary copy of the Canadian Alpine Journal where I had a (very) small contribution : a photo of the Diamir face of the Nanga Parbat that I took back in 2005. It is part of an article by alpinist Louis Rousseau giving an account of the Austro-Canadian attempt at the Nanga Parbat through a new route. I haven’t found the article online but there is another version on the American Alpine Journal blog.
Automating iTunes on Windows with IronRuby
I recently bought a new Windows computer and, since there is no AppleScript on Windows, I have to do without the Doug’s scripts for ITunes that I used on Mac OS X to automate the management of my music library. But Apple has made available a COM API, that can be used by any language to script iTunes, as long as it supports COM. This includes Ruby MRI, with the Win32OLE package in the standard library. But I was curious about IronRuby, the .NET implementation of Ruby, which recently reached version 1.0 and therefore, I decided to reimplement with it some of the scripts I used the most.
