Three Cats in the Hills... and a stray.

The Tokyo Electric Fukushima Dai-ichi site disaster frightens me:


Engineers have observed bursts of heat and radiation and flashes of light 
at the core, which suggests a "localized criticality," in which the 
nuclear chain reaction that normally powers the plant proceeds more rapidly. 

Such events might occur if fuel melted and accumulated in pools 
not covered by water for cooling.

I stand beside the Japanese with strength in their severe trial.

I've brought up a GPS based stratum 1 ntp server (ntp.wraith.sf.ca.us).

Technical information about Three Cats in the Hills. MRTG plots, etc.

Some of the electronic items I've designed or built are documented.

Living in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1980's was a grim time for any railroad watcher. Nonetheless, I made many trips to Santa Clara yard on the Southern Pacific to watch what freight was running during those years. I've scanned a few of the pictures I took then and they are at the rail.wraith.sf.ca.us web site.

The White Pass and Yukon railroad is an incredible train trip. Here are many pictures of a trip up the WP & Y railroad during a summertime ride.

The servers here support ipv6 thanks to a tunnel via Hurricane Electric. You can check out some config details here.

I was walking in the front yard and checking out the young redwood tree I planted a few years ago. I've seen a praying mantis in the branches, which was interesting. Well, I look today, and oh, my, there is a a snake sitting on the branch in the tree! It looked pretty relaxed resting there. I bet it was enjoying the cool breeze we started to get about then after the minor heat wave of the last couple of days.

Some likely-to-be-silly personal pictures and etc. And the turkeys are back. This time with a flock of 22 young birds. Looks like the Male has two hens (that I saw) and all the young'uns. Cough.

I do enjoy writing a haiku. They reach down inside me in a very liberating fashion. I can get goose bumps reading one of the good haiku. Not to imply anything I wrote is "good" LOL... This one I wrote in October, 2001, and updated slightly in August, 2009.


Fresh spring wetness

  earth drinks deep

    many green trees

We've installed a greylisting milter here (acme's). It is remarkable in halting nearly all spam. The only spam that leaks through is out of the major providers such as yahoo, and is of the "you won the lotto", inheritance, and such like spam.

The rest of this is a churning sea of web, all different.

Fukushima links taken from Nelle's Last Post.

Ok... so the little icon you get if you bookmark this place is the Stokes test shot.