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

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I got my Ham Radio Oper­a­tor license last week­end. My call sign is KI4ZKP. Right now I am using a ALINCO DJ-596 hand held radio to talk, but I am look­ing for a mobile setup for my truck. I am mostly on Hibriten’s repeater (147.330 MHz), but I also lis­ten to High Peak Mtn (145.210 MHz).

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Put some “new” seats in my truck, again. They are out of a Toy­ota Cel­ica.

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Got a new acoustic gui­tar. It is an ibanez. Sounds pretty good too. Goes great with my old Fender elec­tric.

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“But now, after see­ing hun­dreds of sto­ries and read­ing thou­sands of com­ments, you
‘ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fight­ing than bow down to a big­ger com­pany. We hear you, and effec­tive imme­di­ately we won’t delete sto­ries or com­ments con­tain­ing the code and will deal with what­ever the con­se­quences might be.”
Hur­ray for Kevin.

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Here are some ran­dom pic­tures of my Toy­ota Pickup Truck. You can see my lap­top mount and 2.4 wire­less sys­tem. More on my Car­do­main page.

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Whats this, two posts in one month? I must be bored. Here are some shots of my newly acquired pool table. I had to tear out a closet to get it in the room. It’s some­thing to do while I’m wait­ing on com­put­ers to fin­ish what ever they are doing.

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I got me a new TV a few months ago. It’s a Hitachi 51″ CRT Pro­jec­tion HD Mon­i­tor (51F59). I decided to run the satel­lite tv through a com­puter PVR so I can record and pause live tv. The soft­ware on the com­puter is GB-PVR.

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