Sometimes I have a whole lot of emails when I come in - some times I have almost none. This morning I had one from a PhD student in Athens, Georga, USA wanting some assistance with some of my software. I really could not help him much - I think he wants to track ocean currents from the questions he was asking... I also had an email from Canada with details of a machine I need to log into in order to do some research on a new product..

My poor tracker has been going everywhere... Thanks to some software issues I have had it visiting South America, the coat off africa as well as Sydney... All in the space of a few minutes. Well, I have fixed that problem thankfully...

I am playing with a Trimble Lassen GPS receiver. This is not a bad GPS. I have worked with better ones. It has two outputs by default, one running Trimble's own protocol, and the other running NMEA. I have programmed it to output GPRMC, which is a common GPS output.

The strange thing that happens is that if the GPS loses lock, and regains it, then the speed data is incorrect. I just had the GPS tell me that the speed of the house was a touch over 200 knots, or close to 400 km/h. This is for your normal brick home in Sydney.

I still have not heard from my father. I guess I will hear from him today... I hope... We will see how it goes.