I’ll get some new images up soon, but first, two pressing orders of business. Free stuff!
Raise your glasses to free stuff! Who doesn’t love free stuff?
First off, if you’re a climber and haven’t seen E11, you’re missing out on one of the most classic climbing flicks of all time. This great Hot Aches Productions film chronicles British climber Dave MacLeod’s two-year quest to free the hardest trad line ever climbed (at the time). You may have seen clips of the absolutely epic 70-foot whippers he takes while trying to bag the FA of this 5.14c R/X. Major pucker factor.
Hot Aches is offering a free download of E11 this weekend. Like the company’s fan page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/hotaches) to get download instructions.
Here’s a trailer for your viewing pleasure!
The next order of business is, well, business. It’s Dropbox, and it’s revolutionized the way I do business. I’m sure it would be equally helpful for students, musicians, artists, writers, or anyone who uses a computer on a daily basis.
It’s basically a free off-site backup solution that is synced to all computers that have the Dropbox client installed — including all iPhones. I use Dropbox for all business correspondence, contracts, and paperwork. So when I submit a new quote or email out a new contract, I first save it into my Dropbox folder on my computer (which has essentially replaced my Documents folder). Then, Dropbox sends said contract into the offsite backup drive in cyberspace, but it does it in the background. Next time I turn on my desktop machine or open my Dropbox iPhone app, all the changes to that folder get synced. If you just want to get into your Dropbox and you don’t have one of your machines, you can access its contents via a web-based interface. Ingenious.
If you use this link, we’ll both get an extra 250 megabytes of Dropbox storage for free — so you’ll get 2.25 gigs instead of 2 gigs.