Alex Little

This weekend I visited my first caves in Spain (and also my first time using SRT in a cave). On Saturday we went down Sima del Carlista and on Sunday into Sima del Portillo, photos…

Some photos from Holi Madrid festival last weekend:

And some pictures from walk up Yelmo in February:

Plus the GPS track:

Arrived back in Madrid over the weekend, so have just uploaded my photos from Australia…

On Sunday morning I arrived in Sydney for few weeks holiday here in Oz. Fortunately I’ve not been to jet-lagged after managing to sleep quite a lot on the flight over. Already been out snorkelling near Manly beach and yesterday did a walk from Spit bridge to Manly:

Unfortunately no photos yet as I’ve forgotten to bring the cable to connect my camera to laptop – doh!

Video from last weekend’s SRT course:

Untitled from michael fernandez on Vimeo.

From Digital Campus blog:

Thanks to all of you who took part in our Mobile Developer Challenge, we’ve spent that last couple of days reviewing the applications and we were very pleased with the standard of all the entries. The winning application was by Daniel Tareke, so congratulations to Daniel. A screenshot of his application is below and you can download his application from Sourceforge.

I recently joined the caving club here in Madrid (Grupo de Espeleología de Geológicas) and last weekend I went on my first trip with them to learn & practice S.R.T. (progresion vertical) near the village of Patones. Next week they’re off to Burgos to practice inside a cave, but I’ll be away for the next few weeks so will have to wait until I get back before I can practice in a real cave. The caves here in Spain seem to be more technical than those in the UK, with ropework/SRT needed for most caves.

Some photos from the weekend:

There’s only until next Saturday (18th February) to get your entries in for our mobile developer challenge. More details on how to enter.

Interesting links I’ve found in the last month or so (in no specific order or grouping)…

• xkcd – Sustainable
• Inveneo Buyers Guide to Sustainable ICT Infrastructure in Low Resource Settings
• Offline Moodle Docs package and a Facebook-style theme for Moodle
• jqMobi: JQuery for mobile apps
• 14 Lucrative ICT Skills for African Software Developers and Designers in 2012 | ICTWorks
• Switch to Open Street Map
• Ethiopian Telecoms shortcuts
• Society for Learning Analytics Research and Learning Anaytics 2012 online course

You can see all my bookmarks at: http://bookmark.alexlittle.net/