Today was Hydronic Heating Coil Replacement day at the Ivany homestead. What is a hydronic heating coil you ask? It’s basically just a water to air heat exchanger which is really just a radiator like you find in a car. Here is a picture of the old one that I replaced today:

The house […]

Well, as some of you may know, Dreamhost had a $7.5 million billing error on January 15, 2008. Basically, they billed all of their customers up until December 31, 2008 accidentally. There also seemsThere’s been a pretty huge backlash on their dreamhoststatus.com site as well as on their apology posted on the Dreamhost Blog.
On […]

This morning I was checking my email and noticed a billing email from Dreamhost (my web host) and I thought it was sort of weird. Turns out they had a slight snafu with their billing software and they basically billed their entire user base for the entire year of 2008.
They have since […]

In the fall we went to Lock 28 on what used to be the Gallop Canal. This was a canal near Cardinal Ontario that bypassed some rapids on the St. Lawrence River. I took a bunch of pictures at the time but forgot all about them until just last week. I was […]

As of today, Kemptville, Ontario can probably be described by a quote from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink

We just got notice this evening of two water related issues that are (or may be) affecting our little town:
The first is a boil water advisory (PDF link) […]