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Topic: Weather Major storm blew through
28 Jun 2002

Last night a significant thunderstorm blew through. The lightning stroke rates were quite impressive (see the graph), peaking at 20,000 strokes per hour. What is better is that the 1-wire weather network held up. I'm chalking this up to the surge protection that I added to the network.

The pondcam held up, and the UPS kept everything running while we were out of power. I use an APC UPS that I got from Sams Club with apcupsd to control it.

Some piece of my hifi rack was not so lucky -- sound now longer travels from the cable box to the amplifier and out to the speakers.

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Rolodex

spf-pobox
Information about SPF (Sender Permitted From)

jreceiver
Open source server for the Rio Receiver -- this is what I use.

cwop
The Citizen Weather Observer Program is a loose collection of amateur weather station operators.

gunnera
Neat description of the Gunnera Manicata -- a truly monstrous plant!

ffmpeg
Open source audio/video streaming software -- this drives my pondcam

docsearls
The Doc Searls weblog -- he seems clueful and I read him.

Philip Gladstone