COVID-19 symptoms and disease progression

Coronavirus disease, COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2 sucks, as we experienced ourselves recently! It is best to avoid getting it if you can.

When a close family member first contracted it in late 2021/early 2022 despite being triply vaccinated, we were extremely anxious and worried. One factor contributing to …

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Peaks of Australia List with Photos

In the following, I have assembled a list of all major and some minor peaks in Australia, ordered by state. I give a short description, show a photo or two and list the official elevation. Besides, I provide the coordinates and altitudes that I measured using a GPS device when …

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Blog Switched to HTTPS Secured Access

Date Tags tech

I have made a few technical changes to the blog and the website over the last few days. The most visible ones are that the access to the website is encrypted by default now, i.e. you will see in the address bar that the URL starts with https and …

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Projecting 3D GPS Track Data onto Photos

Over the last few days, I have played around with ways to project three dimensional GPS track data onto photographs. My primary motivation was to use GPS track data that I had recorded on one of our recent scrambles to visualise the route that we had taken across a mountain …

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Rock Climbing Terms Cheat Sheet — German to English

Date Tags climbing

When I first started rock climbing in Australia back in 2013, there was a bit of unfamiliarity with the names of tools and techniques that I had used for many years in my home country, but of which I knew only their German names. As a result, I often had …

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Summer Cleanup of the Blog

Date Tags tech

Over the last few weeks, I have done a general cleanup of the blog. It mostly dealt with layout changes and improvements to the way content is presented. The aim was to make it easier to discover all the content, to browse and to read it.

For example, I have …

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Photos of Australian Animals (part 3)

Date Series Part 3 of Australian animals Tags photography / animals

This is an update of two of my older posts about Australian animals, mainly focused on animals that live close to the water. The first two parts are here: part 1 and part 2. I have added a few more photos of animals that I stumbled upon on bushwalks, or …

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Why carry a personal locator beacon while outdoors?

Personal locator beacons (PLBs) are satellite devices that transmit a distress signal to search and rescue organisations once they are activated. Because they transmit the signal via satellites, they can be used in remote locations, where no cell phone access is available. Here I explain how they operate and why …

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