Raingarden diary

Work and home life are blending as I attempt to practice what I preach in our newly renovated home.  The tank and raingarden system in our new house is teaching me a bunch of new lessons, which I thought are probably worth recording. So, I’ve begun a separate diary about it.

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A big step forward – escape from Optus

Happy days!  We are finally moving out of our rental house, meaning that we can at last part ways with Optus as an internet service provider.* So, with a new IP address, urbanstreams.net can finally drag itself out of a dark, unvisited corner of the internet, with a proper URL….

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Environmental Benefit Calculator resurrected

I posted a new beta version of the Environmental Benefit Calculator on urbanstreams.net today.  The R package ‘Shiny’ has made the rewrite remarkably easy (and yet it has taken me forever).  I still need to ‘prettify’ the page, but it seems to be mostly functional – doing all of the…

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