Irrigation controller

I have mostly completed the irrigation controller hardware. I need
to work on the software side, so I can program it from my phone.

useful socal fire links

KPBS fire maps

Riverside county Fire Department - Incidents

SignOn San Diego fire map

SDG&E outages

Sigalert

SignOnSanDiego fire blog

CHP Traffic

MODIS

GeoMAC - overloaded today.

MODIS active fire mapping.

Wunderground.com-personal weather stations

SD County Emergency

Sign on Radio

Press Enterprise Blog

nctimes

I'm working on a list of planetary nebula to image. Any suggestions?

puzzles for 9 august 2007

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Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers

An interesting paper by Robert Watson.

Debian on a Linksys NSLU2

I now have an NSLU2 running Debian etch. It is using a cheap 2GB USB thumb drive for storage.

cool USB device from sparkfun

Looks like the USB Bit Wacker - 18F2455 Development Board would be nice for building any number of things. Can't beat the price.

puzzles for 6 august 2007

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puzzles for 4 august 2007

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puzzles for 3 august 2007

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puzzles for 2 august 2007

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puzzles for 1 august 2007

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puzzles for 31 july 2007

puzzles for 30 july 2007

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NGC 4565

Here is a 25 minute exposure of NGC 4565 in Coma Berenices. Taken 3/17/07 on a very nice night at Terry's house in Anza.

Scope: 7" STF Mak
Camera: ST-8XME