I am not sure if anyone else saw the Google header logo in the last day or so, but I thought it was cute. It is what appears to be Braille…

One of my friends commented that he could not work out what it said since ‘it was in braille and his screen was flat’. I am assuming here that he was kidding me. Well, I hope so. My guess is that this says ‘Google’ but I have been known to be wrong. Personally I think it is a better logo that most of them since the coloured balls are actually being used in the logo.

I have just finished a program for the OzFlarm Glider device that I have been working on. This program was written in VB6 since I wanted it to be a smaller download, since the .Net runtimes require about 25 MBytes. That is a bit much for many people. Also, I suspect that many people will have laptops that do not run fast enough to use the .Net framework. So I used VB6. And then I could not for the life of me work out how to actually make an install program. It must have taken 15 minutes for me to find a seperate tool called ‘Package and Deployment’ to generate the install program. This program is not great, but it does work. If I was enthusiastic I would find a copy of the third party software that I purchased rather than rely on this software. Maybe I will do that when I need to compile the software next.

The SMH is reporting on a National shortage of engineers. This is a real worry for the nation. Numbers are going down… It will be interesting to see what is done to fix this problem… Finally, My inbox has got down to 28 email messages unread. That is fairly good. I do not think it will be possible to get much lower than that. I will try though… It is a good exercise.