Kingston’s prison farms to reopen
Finally! What took them soooooo long??? Prison farms in Kingston had the best stats on prison programs reform. The Previous conservative government under harper aid they were not relevant… funny…
Got Frost?
We’ve been running data logging weather stations since 2002 and once in a while get the urge to analyze some of that data. One of the results is attached below……
System upgrade
This site just had a nice upgrade from a 320GB spinning hard drive hosting the operating system, web server and web content, to a smaller 240GB SSD hard drive. Performance…
New mount approaching first light.
A small dovetail does the trick in attaching the Meade DS90 Optical Tube Assembly (OTA) to the Meade mount. A layer of cork is between the ring and the dovetail…
annual daylight saving time rant
Sunday 2018 March 11th, a day that will live in infamy! Yet another (@#%(*^%@#!! daylight saving time switch. Luckily, some with pull are starting to think about it now as…
2018 Jan Lunar Eclipse
This is the baseline image taken the night before the Total Lunar Eclipse. This was 2018 Jan 30 at 18:20 EST with an old Canon DSLR with a 300mm lens…
Windows 10 kills another computer
Microsoft Windows 10 just did another update on one of our old data logging computers, a Toshiba Netbook NB305. After the reboot, it was unresponsive. Many reboots later it was…