13 January
by Amanda Rodrigues AlvesLazy Saturday! We all had a late night yesterday because we were celebrating the arrival of our equipment from Cape Town. Marko sent us a 12 volt turbine, radios for the radio station, the proper conectors to load the softwear from Campbell into our computer, a new laptop, our country flags, chocolates, coffee and other things.
It was the latest I went to bed here and it was nice because the light changed completely outside. The sun was actually in the south and very low in the horizon so we could see things on the landscape that you cannot normally see during the day, they call it mirage here. The wind was and still is blowing outside as strong as in the last strom but this time it is a beautiful sunny day. But we cannot possibly do much outside or even go outside because it is too cold.
We got up late today, had lunch and did a little work and then we had a short workshop on roaps, clamps and all sort of equipment to be able to absail and do rescue work on crevasses here. Tomorrow we will practice what we learnt today in the hangar and some time next week will actually go into a crevasse to practice. That will probably be exciting.
Below are a few pictures from last night.
13 January, 2007
by Adam HydeWell, we got a crazy shipment of goodies last night from the Norwegian Troll station. A plane had flown to Troll from Cape Town and Marko had loaded all sorts of goodies into the plane. We got it all except the dead frog. On my biggest hit list was the extra espresso coffee, a wonderful telephoto lens (from which I took the above photos), and the CDs Honor had organised for the station. We also got Mr Snows Debian CDs. Hurrah!!!!
I think the later delivery made me realise I have a problem and perhaps it would be good to go to OS Anonymous one day. It seems that at every critical point in a project I decide its a good time to re-install my Operating System (OS). So I did so today. I appear to be getting better at it as when i first started my OS addiction it took me several days to get it right. This took about 2 hours. I waved good bye to Ubuntu and welcomed back Debian. Ubuntu is good but its really a users operating system (and its very good at doing that) but I have often run into problems with development work and Debian is pretty well suited for that. So yes, my name is Adam, I am addicted to installing Operating Systems (chorus : "welcome adam")...
As for the photos, I am enjoying taking them very much. I havent taken photos for years and the need to generate photos for each day of the diary pages has spurred me on to practising (you are welcome to use any of the photos in the diary pages, just distribute them with a Creative Commons licence 2.0, attributive (by Adam Hyde), share-alike - - there are a couple I didnt take so I will clear it also with the author if you write to me, I can also send the high-res versions if needed). Its great fun. The telephoto will open the opportunities for shots both scenic and for documenting the projects. I'm looking forward to gettign out on the field and using it. coolio....cheers marko, siphiwe, honor, mr snow and all those that sent materials for the station.