Merrimack river discharge

Here is a python script (merrimack_discharge.py) that downloads river discharge based on the USGS station code. The class provides time-dependent dischrge data and a few simple methods for deriving anual statistics. Running the script creates a plot of the historical (for statistics) and recent disharge of the Merrimack river in New England. This was developed for my near-field plume study with Dan Macdonald.

UPDATED: script now includes real-time data from the USGS, and the figure has been updated to look at the recent flood as compared to historical floods.

Real-time stream flow data in Google Earth.

The USGS has released two kml files for Google Earth that show real time river guage data relative to climatologies. You can click on the colored points and get information about the station. A sample screen grab from New England today shows the rain New England has been getting recently.

Dvorak-ing

I've been wondering when I should make the leap over to Dvorak. The new sleves for the TypeMatrix 2030 seems to be a good way to switch without much pain..

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.

OpenCFD

OpenCFD is an open source utility for finite volume computational fluid dynamics.

Vic Divecha's Tech Blog has a number of interesting links. In particular, this link showing an interactive session with a touchscreen. Very cool.

Test post from deepest sender

Here is a draft post from Deepest Sender, a Firefox extension for working with blogs.  The editor seems fairly easy to use, and has a Word-like editor, a source editor, and a rendered preview.  Pretty cool.  Firefox has come a long way, and has definately surpassed Safari.  The single feature of Safari that is still better is the built-in RSS viewer.  Fortunately, the Sage extension for Firefox has different advantages, and mitigates this difference some.