Lughnasa                                                                Honey Moon

“For decades, scientists were at a loss to explain the source of the so-called Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas discovered in the early 1970s that extends nearly halfway around the Milky Way.

But new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers crack the case. The observations show that the stream did not form all at once; instead, the ribbon is a combination of material stripped at different times from both the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, two satellite galaxies that hover around the Milky Way less than 200,000 light years away.” (accuweather)  artificial color

8/14/2013  Lughnasa                                                     Honey Moon

As you have no doubt observed, ancientrail’s migration to the larger bucket of unlimited service in 1&1’s hosting has encountered technical difficulties.  Bill Schmidt has worked away at this for how many hours I don’t know, but I know he works with a clear eye toward a goal and a lifetime of computer experience, which is saying something since he is now 75.  A resolution will take place soon, I’m sure.  It might mean a new beginning, which is alright with me.  The old Ancientrail’s material will not be lost, but it may no longer be online.  I write along anyhow, as you can see by these entries, so we’ll move on into the future.

These are the kind of prices we pay for access to this astonishing ability to communicate with anyone in the world who has an internet connection.  Anyone in the world!  Think of that.  A glitch here and there?  So what.

8/13/2013  Lughnasa                                                                Honey Moon

Soon we’ll be back on the www.  We ran up against limits nested within limits which required changing hosting packages.  That’s done.  Now.  Except.

I had to spend 22 minutes on the phone cancelling a hosting package that I never ordered.  I think Hell might be a never ending loop of all the times you’ve connected with a technology company for any reason.  Just when you think you’re done, a new call will start.  Forever.  The horror.

( Limbourg brothers, or in Dutch Gebroeders van Limburg (Herman, Paul, and Johan; fl. 1385 – 1416)

1&1 folks are polite.  But not necessarily accurate when it comes to the sales side of their endeavor.  Their tech folks are very helpful.

Lughnasa                                                              Honey Moon

8/9/2013    Lughnasa                       State Fair Moon

Take it to the limit, one more time

Ancientrails has been down for a day plus now.  I hit my limit, my storage limit on my host 1&1.  They allowed, under the old rules, 100 megabytes of data.  I had 149.8 which, it turns out, is where the train stops.  I had to call cybermage Bill Schmidt.  He’s on it and will fix it as soon as he can.  It sounds complicated, but the gist is that he has to copy the whole website, then put it in a new folder, this one capable of holding 1 gigabyte of data, the new limit.  A rough estimate is that I have around 1,000,000 words plus thousands of images.  That’s a lot of data, although, as data goes, it’s really not much to store in these days of terabyte hard discs.  I have two on this computer, one for the work and one for backup.  Hey, they’re cheap.

Summer                                                                         Moon of the First Harvests

While exploring Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took the…image of Earth from a distance of about 1.45 billion kilometers (898 million miles) away.

The Cassini view is the third-ever image of Earth from the outer solar system. Views of Earth from distant planets are rare because our planet is so close to the Sun. Sunlight would damage the spacecraft’s sensitive imagers, so they are rarely pointed homeward. On July 19, however, Cassini was positioned so that Saturn blocked the Sun’s light while Earth was within the spacecraft’s field of view. Sunlight glimmers around the giant planet’s limb and lights its icy, dusty rings. The sunlit Earth is light blue. The Moon is a faint white dot to the side, but is more clearly visible in the narrow-angle camera view.

(nasa)

Summer                                                             Moon of the First Harvests

how cool is this.