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No energy savings?
Published on 3 Apr 2007 at 10:37 pm.
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This year, here in the US, we started Daylight Saving Time three weeks early. This was supposed to be saving energy. The reasoning was that people would get up earlier, so they wouldn’t be sleeping past sunrise, and they would go to be earlier, and not burn as many lights. Well, I heard that at […]
Internet Explorer 7 Problems?
Published on 25 Jan 2007 at 1:03 pm.
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Hmm. Maybe someone out there knows more about this than I do. However, I suspect that Internet Explorer 7 does not work well with Astroprof’s Page. Actually, it seems to have a number of issues that I’ve found. And, I suspect that IE7 is seizing up my web site sometimes.
Personally, […]
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The five things meme
Published on 27 Dec 2006 at 7:56 pm.
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Hmm. Mary Jo tagged me with this meme. I am supposed to tell five things that people probably didn’t know about me.
1) I don’t know how to swim. My Mom was terrified of water, and never let my Dad teach me how to swim when I was a child, and I […]
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Published on 25 Dec 2006 at 12:08 am.
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Merry Christmas, everyone. Peace on Earth, and good will to all mankind. Let’s take time to remember what this season is all about, and it isn’t shopping …
-Astroprof
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Some Flag Stars
Published on 2 Dec 2006 at 4:31 pm.
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People often come to my web page through a search engine looking for something. Most of the time, it is something astronomy or space exploration related, of course. But, once in a while their search has nothing at all to do with astronomy. One search that seems to come up again and again […]
The New Dollar Coins
Published on 21 Nov 2006 at 7:51 pm.
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The United States Mint has recently announced the production of a new one dollar coin. The new coins will feature the images of past presidents on their fronts, and an image of the Statue of Liberty on their backs. The new coins will be available next year. The new coins will be golden […]
Papers and Meteors
Published on 19 Nov 2006 at 8:07 pm.
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Well, we watched for meteors last night. But, it was a typical pitiful Leonid shower. I remember watching Leonid showers in the past that had only three or four Leonid meteors in an hour. We did see a few meteors early on. These were Earth grazers — meteors that were skimming past the Earth rather […]
