Man, what a cluster.  James came over and we started pounding through it.  It was not until I did some major hacking of the scripts I use until I figured out why…  What is worse, the whole PHP problem turned out to be that I was not passing it a php.ini file to work with.

Dude… just tell me you need a php.ini, don’t echo the script back to me.  I wrote it, I know what it looks like!

Anyway…. Weather is back up and running.  Hopefully to stay.  We’ll see how the USB->Serial interface deals now that is not in a hub (it DID NOT like being plugged into a hub).