seti@home issues
The seti@home project has been quite a lot the last few weeks and as a result we went out and added in a 2nd project to most of the computers…
Kingston city greenhouse open house
2011 Get a breath of Spring air at Greenhouse Open House Kingstonians anxious for spring can get a taste of it at the City’s greenhouse which will open on a…
catching up
It’s been busy the last couple of weeks: * Snow and more snow. The Great Groundhog Day Blizzard hit on Feb 2nd and left us with a pile. * WordPress…
The Garlic News
We subscribe to The Garlic News, a small newsletter published by our local garlic guru, Paul Pospisil from Maberly Ontario. It is availble by paper subscription, usually found at local…
Chilifeast 2011
Chilifeast 2011 was on Saturday Jan 22nd. There is nothing like hot steaming bowls of chili on a cold canadian winter weekend…. EXCEPT when it is a bunch of competitive…
Jan L&A Hort
The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society, affectionately known as L&A Hort, held a meeting last night in Napanee. After the business portion of the meeting, we were treated to a…
Growing Days
A followup of non frost growing days using the “light frost dates” , ie actual growing days where the temperature is always above freezing: 2003 = 172 days = 24…
Frost days
At a recent meeting of our local Seed Savers group, we talked a little about the various climate types across the area. In an effort to visualize this, ewe have…
allsky laptop2
The original 7 year old laptop suffered a complete hard drive failure some days back and we have just acquired another, slightly newer laptop, only 6 years old :).. hmm…
Supernova!
Congratulations to Kathryn Gray on her discovery of Supernovae SN2010lt in UGC 3378 (imaged on December 31, 2010 and discovered on January 2, 2011 and confirmed on IAU Electronic Telegram…
outdoor laptop
There seems to be a fine line of what exactly you can do with a laptop in the outdoors in the winter. The replacement allsky computer was outside the first…
the story of moving an imaging system
Tuesday night we spent about 3 hours transferring the allsky camera workstation setup from a desktop machine to an old laptop machine. One reason was that a desktop machine was…
Video catch up
We had several days off over the holidays (2010-2011) and managed to catch up on a lot of video, including: Stargate Atlantis, all five seasons of it. Not a bad…
Allsky down for upgrades
The allsky camera workstation has been removed from service and a new replacement system is being setup using a laptop. The old workstation was an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ running…