Archive for May, 2008

New Tower

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.

New 50 foot tower
My current setup
Wireless network antenna
HAM radio antenna

Posted in Life

Hibriten Mountain

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.

View from Hibriten Mountain
Another View from Hibriten Mountain
My 1994 Toyota truck on Hibriten Mountain
Closeup of my 1994 Toyota Truck

Posted in Work

Google

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

Posted in Computing


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