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I’ve been running phpBB at forums.larrydburton.com for a while now but I haven’t done much to promote the forums. I installed the software on my webserver just to play with it and to learn what its capabilities are in case I wanted to use it for one of the sites I help support. I had a few friends help me debug it and but things died down pretty fast while I was working on an extended project. A few of them check in from time to time but it has become pretty dead.
I was about to just blow the whole installation away but then I started thinking about the occassional discussion that begins with some of my posts and thought those discussions could probably better be carried on in a forum setting rather than in comments. I don’t want to discourage comments but I want a place for people to easily go off on tangents and phpBB seems to offer that ability.
What I think I’ll do is copy occassional posts that seem to have some interest over to the forums and place a link in the comments to invite people to use the forum to discuss in more detail the topic if they wish to. Like I said, I don’t want to discourage the use of the comment system here so feel free to continue to comment here even when there is a link to the forums but if you want to go into more detail in your comment and invite discussion on your on terms feel free to use the forum.
Of course if you think this is a screwy idea that would be something I’d like to hear from you also.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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