October 2010

Well crunch time is here! Our display for the 2010 season has been designed, the sequence channels configured, and the sequencing has begun. Many of the plans we had will not make it in the display this year, and others may still get cut, depending on our available resources, but the elements we have, will be dramatic and awesome visually. I have 4 new songs that I’m hoping to get completed this year, a few others that I have been working on for the past year, and several that will be re-synchronized to the new layout.


I was able to build a new desktop display host PC this year, out of fear that the little laptop that ran the show for us for so many years would just give up, so it will retire as our failover system should something fail with the new system.

We finally completed the 50 Controller Load Calculators, thanks to another enthusiast and a gentle nudge; it was enough to get me motivated to complete it when others needed it most. The controller Load Calculators are a simple Excel workbook designed for lighting controllers, each lighting controller has specific load maximums that need to be monitored, exceeding these loads could render the controller inoperable, so I initially designed that calculators with that in mind, and it has grown ever since. Everything we do goes through the calculator, allowing us to see maximum loads on each controller, and each controller channel, additionally it allows us to manage every lighting element in our display (Controller Calculator DOWNLOAD LINK).


Our web stats are still going crazy! On September 26th, 2010 we exceeded hits (Visits) to our site over the month of January 2010, which is historically (5 Years) our peak month. September 30th 2010, we had over 3,000 unique visitors, with over 6,000 page views as compared to January 2010: 2,598 visits and 4,127 page views, this is in part is due to the release of the 50 Controller Load Calculator


September 2010 Visits



2010 Visit Count



Another interesting observation we saw has been our international traffic, specifically from the University of Science and Technology of China, with over 40 hits in September 2010 alone, what are they up to?