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Some friends invited the kids and I to go rappelling this weekend. It was a blast.

Given that I'm terrified of heights, I'm pretty proud of myself for jumping backwards off a cliff 63 feet in the air. I think if I'd had to jump forwards I couldn't do it, because I didn't look down until I was halfway down the line already.

Tessa caught the last quarter of one of my rides on video (see below.) You can see more pictures from the outing at my flickr set.

Right after installing Ubuntu 8.04, I attempted to install Cinelerra CV but failed miserably.

Seems there were serious dependency problems in their repository. That's now been fixed.

If you want to try your hand at some awesome video editing in Linux using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), just add the following repository and install Cinelerra. They have versions optimized for AMD 64 bit processors, and even more generic 32 bit systems.

deb http://akirad.cinelerra.org akirad-hardy main

I'll try and post a tutorial in a few days.