Christmas Show Time
Every christmas, everyone sits down to watch various favourite christmas shows. We started yesterday with: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) Frosty the Snowman (1969) Christmas Vacation (1989) Blackadder’s Christmas Carol…
Dr. Who (2005) update
We have now finished watching the fourth season of Doctor Who (2005) last night, and just started in with Season 5 Episode 1 with the surprising appearance of Matt Smith…
New night sky views of earth, north america and the kingston ontario region
RELEASE: 12-422 NASA-NOAA SATELLITE REVEALS NEW VIEWS OF EARTH AT NIGHT WASHINGTON — Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed…
The Hobbit
It’s almost here…Peter Jacksons’ vision of The Hobbit, based one of the classic Fantasy works of all time. It comes out on Friday December 14th, is a little less than…
Mercury Greatest Elongation
Tomorrow, 2012 December 04, Tuesday, Mercury will be at its greatest elongation W (21 deg) for the best viewing of the year. This screen capture comes from a great planetarium…
Napanee’s Garden Club meets early, Wednesday Dec 05
The next meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society is Wednesday evening December 6th, 2012. This is a special year end pot luck social event rather than a regular…
summer growing days revisited
We looked at the weather station data again and decided to go with the heavy frost (-3c) instead of the light frost (-1C) definition for a few reasons. 1) In…
seti@home update
An update on our seti@home progress. Yay! After first joining the effort on April 12, 1999, 1:58 pm Over 13 years now dedicated to signal processing radio telescope data. We…
Napanee’s Garden Club meets tonight
Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society meeting The next meeting of the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society is Wednesday evening November 21st, 2012. We meet at 7pm at the Napanee Firehall…
Dr. Who 2012 Christmas special
We’ve become big Doctor Who fans and are happy to share this link with you for the 2012 Christmas Special trailers watch?v=L3KVpvEUTns&feature=player_embedded and look! There is a 2nd trailer as…
Tamworth Grass Roots Growers meeting tonight
Tamworth is 22km north of Camden East on County Road #4, about 20-25 minutes north. http://te-grassrootsgrowers.weebly.com/events.html Weighing the Costs Building a Case for a Local Food Economy Tuesday November 20,…
apache log analysis
Once in awhile one wonders just how many search engines are out there. I wrote up a linux bash script found on the net to analyze the apache web server…
Leonids 0 Clouds 1
This morning was the peak of the Leonid Meteor Shower… only the clouds won. We were using the clear sky clock last night to see when it would clear and…
site updates
Some of the automated data gathering routines and systems have failed in the times since the last time change from daylight savings to standard time. Let me tell you how…