Sustainable Kingston
Last Saturday January 28th, 2012 we attended the day long 2012 Sustainable Kingston Community Forum. The keynote address was great. Feature Presentation: David Miller, Former Mayor of Toronto — Toronto’s…
Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
Last Saturday January 28th, 2012 we attended the day long 2012 Sustainable Kingston Community Forum. The keynote address was great. Feature Presentation: David Miller, Former Mayor of Toronto — Toronto’s…
A couple of weeks ago we started getting intermittent network connectivity to the observatory and to the two data gathering systems running there. Yesterday the cable break was temporarily repaired.…
This is a test using Picasa v3.9 for cr2118 Success! So, the object is to easily generate a nicely laid out page of thumbnail images linking to the larger resolution…
L&A HortSoc (code for Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society) met last night (Wednesday January 18th, 2012) at a new location, the Napanee FireHall Training Room. We’ve talked for some time…
Time to start planning the summer vegetable beds. Rather than micromanage this to extremes, we thought this year to rather just plan out the three major crops and fit the…
We attached a UPS to the radiojove system last night (netbook data recorder only, first), only to have the external netbook power supply fail and 7 hours after that the…
On December 16th, 2011 the laptop computer running the radiojove data logger had a hard drive failure. The Radiojove system continues to run but nothing has been logged or recorded…
We picked up an outdoor wildview trail camera, in an effort to see exactly how big the problem of deer wandering through the yard and eating everything out of the…
One of the christmas (2011) gifts was a USB GPS receiver, the BU353. As it turns out, for our intended uses of using it strictly as an accurate source of…