Logitech HD C270 webcam
This webcam is our latest (2010 Dec 10) acquisition and is nice in its combined audio and video in one usb package. The resolution comes up as 1280×720 and looks…
national farmers union
The National Farmers Union Local 316 held their annual general meeting Thursday evening in Sydenham. Not being full fledged farmers, we hold associate member status. It helps us keep in…
L&A Hort holiday potluck dinner
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society held their annual pot luck dinner for December and a good time was had by all. Especially for all of those who snagged door…
roboscope moves
The RASC-KC roboscope project has been in the works for a few years and has run into technical stumbling blocks too numerous to list. So we have dismantled the telescope,…
Our entries
Our entries in the Shoot the Stars Contest were all taken with a consumer Canon Powershot A540 sitting on a tripod just outside Yarker Ontario. It was using the modified…
Shoot the stars
http://www.lennox-addington.on.ca/things-to-do/experience-the-outdoors/star-gazing.html The results of the photo contest are in: And the winners are… First Place: Dave Deacon, Cloyne won $250 for his photo “The Way'”. Second Place: Jay Dearborn, Yarker,…
Sad day: cfl season is over
EDMONTON — It was another heartbreak for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Grey Cup. The Roughriders were beaten 21-18 by the Montreal Alouettes on Sunday, Nov. 28 in the CFL…
Warner Pasture council decision
This is a mix of good and bad news. We were hoping for much smaller development than this 25 lot plan approval but at least it is almost using minimum…
looking for winter tires?
We have for sale a set of four winter wheels (tire and rims) as they are not the same size as our new vehicle, otherwise we would still be using…
warm fall continues
Even though we’ve had more than a dozen if not two dozen nights of frost, it continues to be warm in the area. Weather is nothing if not variable. The…
Linux Fedora 14
2010 November: I finished upgrading the last of my work servers running Linux Fedora 13 to 14 over the weekend and all in all, one of the smoothest upgrades in…
straw on garlic
We finally found a local supplier of straw and purchased a few bales on Saturday and managed to get them out onto the garlic beds Sunday, the object being to…
TealMobile becomes the BluesMobile
Our transport recently had a collision with a deer and was eventually written off as too expensive to repair. She was a great van with very little wrong otherwise… a…