As happens some days there was a layer of fog over Canberra this morning. The sun was making some early attempts to push through the cloud, creating a few spots of light. Very pretty.
There are a few more photos here.
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
MSNBC has a very cute rss reader… I use Newsfire which seems to work ok, though now seems a bit short on bells and whistles.
Make sure you spell authorized_keys(2) with a ‘Z’ when creating the public key file after running ssh-keygen! It took me a while to catch on that my spelling it with an S was stopping it from working (tutorials here and here for example, or google ssh keygen). If you don’t enter a passphrase the ssh will be passwordless, so don’t let your computer get stolen if you opt for this…
The weather was rubbish all night, so I had nothing to do. I took a photo just before bed time when I was refilling the dewar…
More photos here…
Always running out of space on your computer? Have iTunes and an iPod or two, and a lot of photos? I just cleared out 3Gb of thumbnails for my iPods that I never look at. Just remove the folder “iPod Photo Cache” from your iPhoto or Aperture library.
Nice crepuscular rays this morning… the dome at the right is the Anglo-Australian Telescope, known to those in the know as the AAT.
At the end of last night we were taking a few images of a supernova. In the second image we managed to get a passing satellite in the frame, pretty unusual but it happens. The third appeared to have something like a plane, but it wasn’t flashing. The reason? We think the ‘plane’ was a meteor from the eta Aquarids, pieces of Halley’s comet. It went straight through the middle of the supernova’s host galaxy! Well it did from our vantage point anyway…
I’m at Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran in NSW this week. I’m looking for planets via the transit technique for my friend Dan. The observatory is situated in a national park, with great views of the park and surrounding terrain.
There are more photos here.
I haven’t felt the need for a playstation for many years, not until I saw a demo of this clever PS3 puzzle game. A cross between your typical platform game and one that M.C. Escher would have made.
