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The personal website of Matt Henderson.

El Chorro and the Caminito del Rey

This Saturday we visited another intriguing and spectacular area of Andalucia — the city of El Chorro, and its historic "Caminito del Rey."

El Chorro, about an hour northeast of Marbella, is a small

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Hike to the Cañon de las Buitreras

This article describes a wonderful hike we did to the Cañon de las Buitreras in the Ronda area of southern Spain.

This 6km round-trip hike took us from the Estación de Cortes de la Frontera to the

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Hike from Benaojan to Montejaque

This article describes a wonderful hike we did from Benaojan to Montejaque, in the Ronda area of southern Spain.

On this beautiful spring Saturday in Andalucia, we decided to do a hike from Benaojan

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Following Twitter in an RSS reader.

Varied reasons for following people on Twitter (including sheer imprudence) has resulted in a stream disproportionately populated with tweets from people that I'm either not really interested in

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How am I doing today, asks JungleDisk.

Having long switched to better solutions — e.g. Dropbox and Backblaze — I'd kept my JungleDisk account around because, uh... well, I'm not really sure anymore. Anyway, that's besides the point. This

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Can’t cancel a Screen Sharing window. Skitch saves the day.

This morning I tried to connect from my MacBook to another Mac using OS X's Screen Sharing application, and ended up staring at an unsuccessful connection window, that couldn't be canceled. Skitch

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The benefits of setting limitations.

I'm currently reading "The Power of Less," by Leo Babauta, the guy behind the ZenHabits.net blog. The book focuses on the benefits of setting limitations on what we do and consume, and focusing on

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A timely quote, from 55 BC.

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands

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Homenaje de los 101km de Ronda.

Each year in March, "La Sufrida" organize an event in Ronda, Spain, in homage to their annual "101km of Ronda" race (which takes place in May). The March "Homenaje," just like its big brother in

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Hike to Puerto Martínez near Casarabonela, Spain

It's springtime in Andalucia, and that means weekend hikes. On Sunday, we drove out towards Casarabonela (about 45 minutes from Marbella), to hike the 3.5 km trail around Puerto Martínez.

Passing

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