New moon week starting June 3rd and just as the past months have been the forecast for clear dark skies was terrible. So if its going to be cloudy why not listen to music and party at the Wakarusa Music Festival? Even that four day event had trouble with the weather when a strong storm blew through Thursday night. But Friday was an excellent day and I spent twelve hours enjoying the atmosphere, beer, music and the people.

Picture above from the Sun Down stage field overlooking the beer tent (Fat Tire!). Click for a larger view. I’m thinkin I was one of the few that noticed the three day old moon hanging beautifully in the sky. Naturally it clouded up shortly after this picture.

Sidewalk art, rock chalk.

Photograph from the ‘Celebration in South Park’ event in Lawrence, KS last Saturday. I never saw Kenny, Cartman or Stan there. But it was pretty neat anyway.

Several website updates over the past week.

First I completely updated the Field of View calculator. Now displays in degrees-minutes-seconds by default. Cleaned up the code and enhanced the chart generator.

Second, I added code to detect Internet Explorer on the front page and suggest you switch. Ideas and code fragments from the website Kill Bills Browser and Explorer Destroyer.