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Moving once again

Sigh.

Once again, my ISP decided to part with me. Not for lack of friendly cooperation or anything, but HOSTINGNET.DK simply decided to quit business, at least the hosting of webhotels. THus, once more the entire content of my multiple sites has been moved to a new location, databases and all. THis time however, the move happened without any major hiccups. It’s exactly as flaky as before; no silly stuff added.

This means you can happily keep browsing

  • This site, AKA “Mechanicality”
  • The original, handwritten-in-straight-HTML: “www.martinfiltenborg.dk”
  • The vintage car site. Because I’m restoring a vintage car and to this end will maintain a site for it. Those in the know will be able to glean from the featured closeup-photo what car that might be…

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Site update – structure as well as content

I’ve discovered that what you see here is actually a nice way of showing off my somewhat geeky interests and the outcomes of – well, life as it unravels. How I tackle everyday mechanical issues and what it tells the reader about who I am.

The thing is – the company (actually, a particular site; a minor part of the big organization) I’ve worked for for 20 years got terminated. Long story, related to an activist investor causing a stir, a CEO making a tough decision and a few thousand people being laid off. Anyways, 25 people on my location got terminated – me included.

Oh well.

Moving on, one must now demonstrate one’s prowess to attract potential employers. Can’t do that properly in a CV or a motivation letter – not enough space to work with. I get it; employers and the people in HR are busy, meaning applicants must keep to the point or get shoved aside. Being ‘all-business’ is an asset in that context.

Yet, to offer those following the link I provide in said letter/CV a chance to ‘surf Martin on the web’, a site reorganization was needed. It was long overdue anyway, as this particular website-install (WordPress) sports no more than four ‘top level subjects’, meaning I’d be limited to four subject on display.

Reorganization needed. It took a few days and I’m still not done. Mostly because this has exposed quite a number of interesting topics for which I have no material to show. Yet.

So, there it is; the site has now been reorganized, sorted by category.

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Ye olde Automobile

I’m not a particularly good customer to the local garage. And I’ve now finally gotten some progress with a chinese-copy-ECU-diagnostic-tool that I bought for my old Citroën Xantia. That’ll probably make me an even less attractive customer. However, I’ll hopefully gain a whole new level of control over the machinery.

But it’s been a long way, involving a complete laptop designated to run the arcane diagnostics-software from around Y2K, a 32-bit Win7 install and a lot of jumping through hoops to get the system going. Brings back memories of struggling with yucky Windows machines before I discovered the wonders of Linux.

Today I got the OBD2-connector loaded up with what looks like a proper firmware. Nice – I have enough paperweights as it is! Next will be seeing if it gets me in touch with the cars ECU’s.

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