Received a question in email concerning the pinout of the front-panel connector on the PowerEdge 500SC motherboard. I did have to figure that out when I did the case transplant. In response, I have added the pinout to my web-page.

In October 2002 I made a trip to England and Germany, to visit some friends. I’ve added my trip diary and photo album to the site. Valuable lesson learned on the trip: the ATMs in Europe won’t give you money from an account that is on the “Savings” slot of your debit card. They’ll just…

For quite a while, I found that Google wasn’t indexing my site properly. From the logs, it appeared that the Googlebot would come by, read my robots.txt, and my index.html, and then nothing else. I couldn’t figure out why, my robots.txt was properly formatted as far as I could tell. Did some reading, and found…

I’ve put my diary from my 1999 tour of Europe with Craig onto the site. It was fun to read it again. Someday maybe I can get some of Craig’s photos scanned and uploaded to my gallery. Also put up the original “Theory of Operation” document I wrote for the position transducer project I built…

I just installed the WordPress blogging system. Installation was pretty easy. Now I just need to figure out how best to integrate this with the rest of the site. I’ve gone and moved some news items from my original main index page into the blog, and back-dated them. But this is really the first item…