I got contacted overnight about the item on eBay I was waiting on getting paid for. The buyer has now paid for the item so things are good. I guess that means I will soon be taking the parcel (which is already addressed and packed) down to the post office for sending off. Hey, I need to go to the post office anyway to grab the mail so sending this off is not a problem. [When I was there yesterday one of the other customers had bought the staff morning tea… I guess that shows what the staff at the post office are like – you actually get to know the people who work there].

I think I have worked out how to test the firmware in my tracking units… Basically it involves ‘reducing’ the amount of memory in the device and seeing if that is causing any issues. Not actually reducing the memory, but reducing the number of slots that it can store position reports in. Minor difference, but an important one – removing memory chips is rather difficult and somewhat destructive. Why do something in hardware when software will work.

I just had an interesting phone call. I had been doing some wiring for a client and the phones would not work. I mean I had installed new phone sockets throughout the house and none of them were working. My client was rather ‘concerned’ to say the least. Thankfully he worked out what the problem was just before phoning me, and he was ringing to confess. It turned out that the phone plugs were the old 6 pin RJ12 plugs, and the sockets were the new 8 pin RJ45 sockets. There is no problem with using them together but he just had not pushed the plug in quite far enough. Pushing it all in fixed the problem.