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email thisI removed the RSS/XML feed from the weblog today. Sorry if that was your main method of following the weblog. The main reason for removing it is that I decided I didn't want a re-packaged version of my website. The Jer Zone has a look at feel that I strive to maintain, it's not a news site, and I don't have content I want syndicated. Having parts of it vivisected and stuffed into little news readers seemed counter to that.
I don't have a link to it from this page (probably should put under Other Zones) but our home weather page has been updated. I'd been using an old Radio Shack weather station the past couple of years and recently it has had problems. Last week I bought a fellow Upper Valley weather enthusiast's old wireless weather station. Too cool. Place the sensors wherever you want, no tripping over and tangling of wires, little solar panels harvest power and the sensors broadcast their findings over a 400+mhz wireless link. In honor of that I've been experimenting with expanding the home weather page. Currently the images are generated by the Virtual Weather Station software. I've written weather plotting apps before and am thinking of doing the same when I have some spare time and can figure out how best to get the data shuffled about. So instead of FTP'ing images every few minutes just the raw data is moved about and the images are rendered only when requested. For example, right now the weather data is regularly uploaded to Weather Underground which gathers and displays personal weather data from all of the world.
Jerry,
neat weather site! I created a similar (simulated) GUI for the state DOT folks while working at CRREL. It was to help the plow crews fight winter storms more efficiently.
Would you be able to show me how to make a for-real web site like you did?
Kevin
Cool!