It isn’t that I was dying to have a blog — in fact, I’ve tried to stay away from blogging for years.

A few months back it became clear that this electronics thing wasn’t going to go away. I was, in fact, going to be building more circuits over time and perhaps even designing them. I had chronicled the lighting of the backyard railroad at 45mm.com, while the Christmas lights project was at PacificaLights.info.

But that scattered stuff all over the map and I didn’t have a good place to put things that fell in between. Plus, I had never installed WordPress and was interested in giving it a try (we won’t talk about the ill-fated, three-day attempt to get Movable Type to work).

Plus, I had all these iterations of the domain name dmcole — so why not use one for its own content?

I don’t expect to post here often; I don’t expect the material to be earth-shattering. I do expect it to be of mild interest to those who are interested in do-it-yourself digital lighting solutions and those who are microcontroller hobbyists.

Now, I’ve set up by blog and I’m ready to go.

Onward.

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