This Web Life - Klint Demetrio

19 March 2009, Thursday

Almost a year since the last update. The site is still going. But will be changing. I haven't figured out how yet but .. new updates will be listed here at the following site.

"This Web Life blog - at blath.com"

blath.com is actually a domain I've owned and used since 1997 (for the Fort Blatherskite project which started in 1993). And right now is the location of a message forum. I had wanted to find a 'community management system' that would allow me to enter updates easier but allow also the option for comments and other discussions. I thought I had found it but than as I was looking at my final choice and options there was an event that caused a split in the partnership of two software groups which had created that desired option. :( So I stuck with the message forum while pondering what to do. Than a few months ago someone created what looked like a workable substitute that would be intially designed to work with the message forum software I picked. It's taken awhile till that software was stable and available. That day was yesterday.

I still plan to use the thisweblife.com site to hold reference pages like it did years ago. But for new info entries.. the blog will be where it's at. I'll of course have to figure out a way to nicely mesh them.

This is still being tested but it looks like I have found a desired more workable process. If there are any problems do let me know. Klint "blath" Demetrio klint@thisweblife.com - Twitter http://twitter.com/blath

30 March 2008, Sunday

Article - Link: "Melbourne makes our darkest hour perfectly clear with 10% cut", published 31 March 2008.

By Orietta Guerrera, Fairfax Digital, The Melbourne Age

This piece covers Melbourne, Australia's participation in the global "Earth Hour" event where those involved turn off polluting generated power usage where safely possible. It is mentioned that the city recorded a 10.1% drop in energy usage for the event. The article also mentions that this is the 2nd Earth Hour to take place, the first being last year in Sydney Australia. Estimates from AGL Energy (an Australian energy company) on pollution not hitting the area during the hour is at 30 tons of carbon emmissions.

Earth Hour page / will probably redirect you to a regional page

AGL Energy (Australian Gas Light Company)

Article - Link: "Stevens Pass disaster of 1910: History's valuable lesson", published 02 March 2008.

By Jackson Holtz , Everett Herald

This piece is about an event that occured at about 1:42am on March 1, 1910 when around 100 people were killed in an avalache. Covered is a basic gist leading up to the event from taking the precaution of stopping lines so they could deal with an earlier avalanche on the tracks and events, such as a change in weather, that followed to current technologies, safety inspection and maintenance processes and past rail line modifications that have helped greatly in reducing the chance of people falling victim to an avalanche while travelling through Stevens Pass. Mentioned also in the piece was that a similar event had occured in February 1910.

U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Intelligent Railroad Systems (sub-subjects lower left menu)

A U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service write up that includes a description of a 'Pineapple Express'

Washington State Dept. of Transportation -Stevens Pass page

"Rambling West" - blog owned by Martin Burwash

Amtrak Empire Builder line. Seattle to Wenatchee go through Stevens Pass During Spring and Summer times U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service guides will be on the train as part of the Klondike Gold Rush section of the U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service's "Trails and Rails" program. in partnership with Amtrak.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway

A DVD video for about $25 at Amazon.com featuring a scenic presentation of the rail line in Stevens Pass in/around 2003 entitled 'American Trains-BNSF's Stevens Pass'

Stevens Pass Ski Resort

Articles by David T. Sprau about different historic rail lines . 1999 article of the Tonopah and Tidewater line in California "A Day in the Life of the T&T" and two articles about Auburn, Washington "How Auburn became a railroad town, Part 1:Featuring the Northern Pacific's "Palmer Cutoff"" from Jan 2002 and part 2 "Auburn and Its Railroads - Part2: Featuring the Northern Pacific's "Palmer Cutoff"