The second reason is that my web server has been down and I haven’t fixed it until recently. My server rebooted one day when I lost power and Apache refused to start for some reason. Rather than sitting down to fix that, I just spent all my time working on the anniversary project. It turns out there was some other instance of httpd running in the background hogging port 81. I have no idea why this was. I’ll have to reboot the system again to see if the problem occurs again. At least I’ll know what the problem is.

In other news, I have started the Near Space class at school last week. I am really excited for this class. We will be sending a balloon equipped with computer, science experiments, and a camera into near space in just a few months. Ryan is splitting the class into teams and should have them posted on the e-shell this weekend at some point. Hopefully I’ll have access to the shell soon. I just e-mailed a local enthusiast to see if he wants to come to class to share his experiences and offer some words of wisdom. Hopefully that will go over well.

My dad should be sending me another radio, antenna and a Tiny Trak 3 module next week. I can’t wait to get that stuff. I want to start messing with APRS tracking as soon as possible to get a feel for it before we actually do a launch. I’m hoping to be on the tracking and telemetry team for the near space class.

I suppose that’s enough updating for now. I have to take some photos of the anniversary lamp to stick on that page, as well as get a schematic up. Man, I still need to get a schematic up on the graduation hacks page… I’ll get on that soon. I’ll also post a video of the lamp in action. Until then.