Adventures of a software guy moving into the hydro industry

Diagnosis You just never know what you're going to get hit with from one day to another. Late last week I got a call from our operator...

The small hydro industry is pretty old fashioned. Many of the people working in it come from old industrial backgrounds or have been doing h...

So, aside from hydro, I've been working on designing my own bags and utility belts. Back in July I finished my first prototype, but neve...

Hollow Dam. Hollow is our latest project. It's another old Algonquin site out near Gouverneur, NY. A group of us took a nice drive out...

It's almost funny. After more than 10 years of my suggesting that we install solar at one of our hydro plants, we finally did it. Rene...

I need to apologize to anyone who had been reading this blog. I had been (by my standards) on quite a roll up until sometime in July. I don...

Logo design is a touchy subject at best. You inevitably end up with design by committee since if there's one thing the stakeholders will...