No rain

[altivo]

In spite of forecasts, only sun and a few clouds today. Gary picked up many wheelbarrows full of fallen bits of tree, though. Mostly pieces a foot long though some were much larger, and both included many two inches in diameter or more. That was some wind gust.

Another burst of Red Admiral butterflies this afternoon, very noticeable in the evening sun as they fluttered and danced in the same spot where we noted them earlier. That nettle patch is getting a workout.

The Alpha here at home is now set up with the full suite of software I need for my development, and I know what I have to do to get the larger one at work to the same point. Linux servers are often similarly configured, with Apache, MySQL, and PHP, to create what are called "LAMP" systems (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP.) I guess since the Alphas run VMS, mine will be "VAMP"s. I loaded some test code this afternoon, the database and examples from an O'Reilly book on the subject, and they seem to work just fine in spite of the change in operating environment.

(For anyone who came in late, I'm planning to recode an intranet application that I previously wrote in a hurry to run on Windows 2000 with IIS, ASP, and MS SQL Server. I want it to be operating system independent this time, so I'm going to use VMS as the development platform even though it will probably run on Linux eventually.)

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[moonhare]

Another burst of Red Admiral butterflies this afternoon...

Must be very pretty to watch :o) It amazes me how these fragile insects survive those 80 mph and higher winds.

[altivo]

I would have guessed that they just get blown along on the wind, but in this case we already know the location of the sighting is the hatching ground. They may have emerged in Sunday's hot humid afternoon, so they weren't on the wing during Friday's high winds and heavy rains. I don't know what the time from egg laying to maturity is for these, but the previous emergence was on a Sunday afternoon as well.