I recently put some LED strobe lights on my truck. I made the strobes myself. Each strobe has 27 high inten­sity LEDs. Also each strobe costs about $16 dol­lars to make. The front strobes are hid­den behind the grill and are sealed in a project box. I tied the strobes to the turn sig­nal lights, which I replaced with LEDs.

I also replaced the gauge clus­ter with one that has a Tachome­ter. The new one has white faced gauges, and red LED light­ing behind it.

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Just bought a new to me Toy­ota Truck.  It is a green 1998 Toy­ota Tacoma SR5 Extra Cab.  Specs as fol­lows: 3.4 V6 engine, 5 speed man­ual trans, 4 wheel drive, man­ual lock­ing hubs, and 31 inch tires.

I will upload pic­tures later.

I finally took the A+ test last week, and passed.  I have been mean­ing to take that test for a long time, but never got around to it.  I made a 750 on the first test, and 865 on the sec­ond.  I plan on tak­ing the Net­work+ next.

The Tech­nol­ogy depart­ment went to the ITEC trade show in Char­lotte on the 25th.  There was about 20 ven­dors, and a few cool prod­ucts.  But it was not a very impres­sive show.

I have been res­ur­rect­ing an old lap­top of mine this past week.  It is my longest liv­ing lap­top, since 2001.  It is a Toshiba Satel­lite 1755, with a 700MHz Intel Celeron and 192MB of RAM.  I am still debat­ing on what to do with it.  I might make a wall com­puter out of it, or mount it in my kitchen somewhere.

The lap­top had broke screen brack­ets, which my dad had welded back together in 2004.  I gave the lap­top to my mom after I got my Dell Insp­iron 5100.  About a year ago the back light went out in the LCD, so I had to rob a light out of a parts lap­top I had lay­ing around.  The lap­top still gets about an hour and a half of bat­tery time.

I got me a “new” tower for my house.  It is slightly used, but in good con­di­tion.  It is a 50 foot gal­va­nized guyed tower.  It will replace the tele­scop­ing pole that I use for my HAM radio antenna and my wire­less inter­net.  I plan on putting it up some time this summer.

Here is a few snap­shots of my cur­rent setup and the new tower still on the trailer.

I went up on Hib­riten Moun­tain today to work on an air con­di­tioner at one of our tower sites.  Took some pic­tures of the view.  I also got some pic­tures of the new Google Data Cen­ter, but I don’t think they would like me to post them.  I have more pic­tures from Hib­riten over on my Flickr page.

Just got back from the Google data cen­ter grand open­ing in Lenoir, NC.  We didn’t get to tour any of the build­ings, but we did get to be on site where we could at least see the top of the data cen­ter.  We were not allowed to bring any cam­eras or cam­era phones. 

Google’s Lenoir data cen­ter site