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This is a great tweet from NASA’s Voyager 2 probe. Someone at NASA has a great sense of humour… But did I hear “Open the pod bay door, HAL”??? NASAVoyager2‏@NASAVoyager2 Due to government shutdown, we will not be posting or … Continue reading →

On Saturday afternoon (September 28th) I installed the new Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2  (VP2) weather station with the IP-based WeatherLink IP data logger. I installed the Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS – Davis-speak for the combined rainfall and temperate sensor with … Continue reading →

Funny things happen when you are searching the Internet… You find funny things – and old things. I found this at the Internet Achive Wayback Machine; an old web page describing my computing environment. Back in the days when you did … Continue reading →

Being a hard-core believer in Newfoundland and Labrador I was very much unimpressed with the article in the online version of the Financial Post entitled Northern Promise: Mining projects spark much-needed Sept-Îles port expansion where the author, Mr. Nicolas Van Praet states … Continue reading →

I was reading today an article on ZDNet about how the state of how Maryland state security sloppiness exposes personal data. The article by Larry Selzer shows how, to quote him: “Mustering all necessary resources” in this case means “cutting corners.” … Continue reading →

From: The Washington Post  http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/08/23/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/handelsman08242013.jpg

My first weather station was an old National Geographic-branded station. I was okay – it provided the temperature, wind direction and speed, and rainfall information. But then I thought wouldn’t it be nice to be able to see this on … Continue reading →

I heard this on the radio this morning and it made me smile being Friday the 13th. There is a scheduled flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Helsinki, Finland, operated by Finnair. The three-letter designation for Helsinki is HEL. The Finnair … Continue reading →

From Ars Technica it looks like there is another use for copyright way; or at least an attempt to use it. When Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed earlier in July the station used some “confirmed” names of the flight crew as listed … Continue reading →