Computers for Albatrosses [Dec. 03, 2002] is a fascinating article about how much can be found out about the habits and travels of an Albatross using just a light sensor. Heh, It would be fun next vacation to put a sensor like this on cruise ship and check the ship’s migration patterns.

Sunrise viewed from my bedroom window about a week ago.

Ice on the trees this morning by the office, though it’s beggining to melt away slowly.

One of my linux computers is up to 305 days of running without shutdown or reboot. Why am I posting about it? I’m afraid we may be without power for a while if a tree takes a dive onto a power line. :D

Forbes.com: Duke says storm cuts power to 1.2 mln in Carolinas

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Duke Power said about 1.2 million Carolina customers, over half of its customers, were without power early Thursday after an ice storm downed lines in what Duke called the worst weather damage in its history. The number of outages was expected to rise as accumulating ice continued to bring weigh down power lines and tree limbs, Duke Power said in a statement. “This ice storm surpasses the damage from Hurricane Hugo in 1989, which had 696,000 outages,” the company said. Duke Power is a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corp. . The company, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, has about 2.1 million electricity customers in North and South Carolina.

We got off with only four hours of no T1 while both phones and power stayed on for the most part.

Winter has hit the Carolinas. Today is a grey overcast day, with falling ice-rain sounding like Rice Krispies crackling in milk .

Sometimes seventeen Syllables ain’t enough to Express a complete

Found on the Mozilla Whiteboard

By bedtime tonight the ice is a quater of an inch thick on everything. We already have one little tree touching the ground, bowed over with the weight of the ice on it. The outside steps around here are not exactly safe to walk on either.

So there I am, reading the list of recently code changes to my web broswer, when I see someting about a tool tip bug on the tabs. So I move my mouse over the tabs, and wait for a tool tip to pop up. Poff! the browser crashes a few seconds later. Duh at me!

Well, I’ve suddenly got a ton of web site work, plus a possible “real” application to program. Time is going to be a little more scarce now, and I realize I’m spending too much time reading blogs and news from around the net (With the help of NetNewsWire). I’d read all the new posts, then refresh looking for more, then go follow links around the web, and then suddenly a whole hour was gone.

So for a while at least I’m just pulling net NetNewsWire off my dock, and getting read to dig into work. Off course I’ll still be reading books (lots of books). Just not not keeping up with the news around the net on an hourly basis.