News about our website and our blog
2 years COVID Hibernation had been hard. What does a travel and tourism blog do when nobody can travel?
No, we didn’t sleep all the time. We repaired many things and created new spots but we were extremely limited on our little island of just 229.8 km² or 88.7 square miles.
Basically CEB has installed ADS-B receivers on 21 airports in the Philippines.
They record flight data of an average 500 domestic flights per day. For each flight they collect about 1000 GPS positions.
Cebu Pacific uses the FlightAware FlightFeeder 7.9.2 as I do.
facebook is highly addictive – I felt it myself Yesterday evening I hit the final button and encountered again lies and menaces. This I show you later. Worse had been getting up this morning....
Help! We cannot decide which layout to choose for our ‘Island Hopping’ pages. We finally found enough time to transfer more of our pages to the new fully responsive layout. But now we have a...
Since 2011 we record all the earthquakes in the Philippines. Every year we encounter about 2000 earthquakes. Most of them are weak, but about 12% are felt and about 5 or 6 are very...
CAMTECO’s Internet – slow and expensive? No it is too slow and too expensive! After weeks of troubles with CAMTECO, we invested some more money and connected to SMARTbro. We always measure the speed...
We are really sorry for having interrupted our series “East Mindanao Discovery Trip” for such a long time. The problem has been and still is with our Internet Service Provider “CAMTECO”. The picture below shows last...
With a little help from my friends – who does not know this song by the Beatles and wonderfully performed by Joe Cocker. We from Silent Gardens help a bit almost every day. Today had...
Camiguin lives a difficult week. Electrical power comes and goes in a furious rhythm. The worst, even public utility companies such as CAMTECO do not have auxiliary power supply. This chart shows the situation...
Women like Silent Gardens! This morning we analyzed Silent Gardens to see where we can improve, what interests readers and from where our readers come. Have a look in our statistics. Women like Silent...
Last week I wrote about Chinese spammers and hackers. After the first shock I decided to install a Honeypot for Spammers. It worked wonderfully. The definition of a Honeypot “A server that is configured to...
Yesterday I had a really bad day. After several months I did re-open the feedback form of the Silent Gardens website. I had to close it earlier this year because of heavy spam abuse and...
Yesterday I wrote about my hunt with the Wireshark to discover the secrets of the Oregon Scientific LW301 weather station. I got somehow stuck by the behavior of this little bugger. Chatting UDP and...
Shark hunt? As a passionate diver, shark hunt is an absolute “no-go” for me. But as a networker I love to go hunting with a shark – with the Wireshark. Wireshark is one of the...
Several readers of our blog informed us that the captcha in the comment form was not displayed. We have now changed the captcha plugin to allow you to comment our articles. Sorry for the...
Earthquakes Philippines page is updated and enhanced. The recent earthquake swarm in the sea off Cortes in Surigao del Sur and an interesting feedback from Juerg in Makato motivated us to make these changes. Since 2011 we...
Our website had been hacked and abused. A hacker from the Ukraine found a back-door in our spam protection. He got inside and used our server to send spam messages. The same hacker seems...
This afternoon, on White Island, we gave the ashes of our dear friend Uli to the sea. Some close friends and his whole staff accompanied him on his last dive. During our last longer...
Our blog rediscovered a lost contact. A few days ago I reorganized our blog so it shows the article titles in the link instead of the page number. Yesterday evening I just had a...
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