Weather Station – interesting side effect
Five days ago, we informed you about our problems with our new Oregon Scientific LW301 weather station. Meanwhile we could resolve some of the problems with the help of our readers. A big “THANKS” goes...
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Oregon Scientific LW301 – what a scrap
We purchased and installed an Oregon Scientific LW301 weather station to provide you with live weather information from Camiguin. We profoundly regret our acquisition! This weather station and the associated software are scrap! The screen...
Airline Races ?
Yesterday evening I checked the airspace situation over Manila (MNL/RPLL). I do this rather often when we expect guests, to check the congestion around NAIA. I got a bit astonished, when I saw CEB...
Traveler’s health in the Philippines
We would like to inform you that our “Health page” is now adapted to the new website layout. All new pages are readable on desktop devices, tablets and smartphones. Click on the picture above...
The new maps are on-line
Comparing maps is mostly useful – but it is, no has been, a silly job. We have created a new page called Philippines Maps. On-line map providers have different data sources and styles. They also...
Earthquakes and Active Volcanoes
The “Earthquakes” and “Active Volcanoes” pages are back. While moving these pages from the old version of Silent Gardens to the new one, we encountered some problems. Adapting the graphics to responsive design hadn’t...
The new Cyclone Warning Page is now in Beta Test
We have created a new Cyclone Warning page. This page should display information about upcoming cyclones as soon as the US NAVY’s JTWC publishes a warning for the Philippines. The page is here! While...
No news during the next days
We’re sorry, but during the next days we won’t post news. We are heaving a problem with our server. There is a script that uses too much processor power and too much memory space....
Online Photo Album
Do you remember, we also have a photo album on-line: Photos from the Philippines [GARD] [GARD]
Old Silent Gardens still lives!
We got many mails and even phone calls from our community. Most of them were friendly and asked us to make the old Silent Gardens available at least until the new version is fully...
Bad weather = a programming bug
The weather here in Camiguin is still bad – no it got worse. So I thought to have a look at our new weather page to see what the forecast says and to have...
Got hacked!
No, not our website, but the website of a friend here on the island. And it’s not the first time he gets hacked. Instead of the usual welcome message, visitors got this screen: This...
The Silent Gardens Blog is back
We are happy to inform you that the Silent Gardens Blog is back and it is working. Yesterday, while we updated the website, we had a brown-out and the whole blog went crazy. No...
Season Greetings from Silent Gardens
The Silent Gardens Team wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. You’ll see us next year with an entirely New Silent Gardens – see you in 2014.
Manila – Monaco
Here are two maritime traffic maps of this morning. Green symbols are cargo vessels, violet are yachts. Manila Monaco The extreme number of luxury yachts in the port of Monaco and off the coast...
Silent Gardens does not comment politics ! – but …
Silent Gardens does not comment politics but this cartoon of Joseph Morong says too much about the Philippines in these days. In the midst of public anger over pork barrel abuses, Storm Maring arrives to...
We’ll miss you
Sad news today. For about 7 months we had wonderful neighbors, Rose, Marc and Savannah. This morning Rose informed us that they are going back to Negros. Rose, Marc and Savannah came to Camiguin begin of...
Worst case – a scenario becomes true
This is what “Solid Hosting” is saying about themselves: “Solid Hosting is the best quality, cost friendly web hosting company in the Philippines. Our prices are the cheapest and most affordable prices available in the...
2012 Typhoon Season
Until October 24 all typhoons passed by but did not hit the Philippines. Among these passers-by were 3 super typhoons: GUCHOL/Butchoy in June, SANBA/Karen and JELAWAT/Lawin in September. Then came 3 killer typhoons: SON-TINH/Ofel on October 24, BOPHA/Pablo...
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