Building the Albany Convention Center
October 26, 2015 evening
Good evening. Currently 51 degrees with scattered clouds and long shadows of the evening hanging low over downtown. Tonight’s sunset is at 5:58 PM, next Monday after the time change the sunset will be at 4:48 PM making for a dark evening commute. Forty degrees and clear at 9 PM tonight.
Nice evening, you have to enjoy the evening commute while you still have light. But I will also appreciate having an earlier sunrise as getting up in pitch black to go to work is no fun at all.
I am quite excited about the release of QGIS 2.12. The new labeling feature should greatly improve the visual appearance of maps, one of the current weakness of QGIS is overlapping labels. I haven’t tried it out yet but blogs documenting it looks very encouraging. I will install the update later this evening at the Bethlehem Public Library.
Probably going to get a refurbished Mr. Heater Big Boy propane camp heater next week. I’ve been studying my options and will probably use it with the 20 lb propane tank adapter and a larger propane tank. The reviews are good and the hunters I ran into in the woods really liked these units. It’s not real economical to operate a full blast but apparently throws a lot of heat on this setting to warm up a tent or lean-to quickly. Beats having to build a campfire right away on a below zero morning. Plus if I lose power midwinter I can put the heater inside and tank outside and keep my apartment warm. I really want to do more winter camping.
Watch Fall In The Hudson Valley And The Catskills From The Sky.
Rifle Season And Blaze Orange.
Recent Labelling Improvements In QGIS Master – Nyalldawson.net.
These changes will make for much nicer looking maps in Quantum GIS ... I can't wait until QGIS 2.12 goes stable.