Laptop repair
This is a 6 year old HP dv6500 laptop. It’s fan makes the most irritating noise one can imagine. So today, we took 2 hours to take it apart and…
The Kingston Astronomy Club Met
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 March 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen’s University. Our Guest Speaker: Dr. John Percy…
Upcoming Events at SCGO
It’s been a fairly quiet season here at SCGO. But the thaw is coming, the snow and ice are going and soon we will be able to be back outside…
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Book Review: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Wow. What a read. Received this back in 2013 December and took my time going through it, finishing…
KAON Saturday 2014 March 08
Greetings partially clear skies! For the first time in 5 or 6 months (2013 September?) The skies were clear enough to set up on the observing deck! The Kingston Astronomy…
Seedy Saturday Kingston is over!
Seedy Saturday Kingston was held today, Saturday 2014 March 08, at this hall. This was the 2nd? or 3rd? year at this location. In the past it was held in…
another Daylight Saving Time Rant
Again, my annual plea to all, to stop this huge waste of time and energy, that continues on due to plain old bureaucracy and complacency. Cons: – labour involved in…
SID2 update
The Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) 2 system still has not achieved 100% operation. It is being hosted on a newer computer that also hosts a weather station and operates under…
Babylon5 – Season two complete
In the last three weeks, we finished watching the last episode of Season 2. Another great season with a lot of good story lines and a great desire to carry…
Asteroidal occultation Nike and TYC 0642-01123-1
On Monday evening 2014 March 03 the Asteroid Nike (307) will occult the star TYC 0642-01123-1 UT Time: 01:54:05 Tuesday 2014 March 04 (subtract 5 hours for EST) Location: Areas…
Seedy Saturdays/Sundays
Kingston, ON Kingston Unitarian Fellowship Hall, 206 Concession St Saturday March 8, 2014 10-3 In Kingston Ontario, the seed exchange tables are located in the very centre, or heart, of…
Goodbye WinNT4 server
Now that it is gone, I can talk about it. Windows NT4 server came out in 1996 and replaced our novell netware server. actually Nt server 3.51 replaced the netware…
Babylon 5 – Season 1 complete
In the 12 days since February 6th, we have managed to polish off the remainder of Season 1, another 22-6 or 16 episodes. Episodes 18, 19 , 20 and 22…
Seedy Saturday – Picton
Seedy Saturday at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Picton (Prince Edward County), Ontario More info at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/506906412664424/?fref=tck Event Date(s) 22-Feb-14 to 23-Feb-14 Event Time 10:00 to 03:00 Price Free A lovely…