Last night when I was watching Love Actually my DVD player started really acting up. Firstly the DVD player crashed near the beginning of the movie. It just stopped playing DVD’s. Then when I restarted the DVD player the audio had major issues noise on the audio, buckshot noise. Since the DVD player is about four years old am not surprised that it is on its way out. I bought this DVD player just before going to Hollywood on a consulting job, and it is rather large compared to the units on the market these days.

Thankfully I had a newer DVD player in the garage, so I swapped them. The newer one was an Audiosonic unit, and my mother had replaced it when it failed after 12 months. Then I managed to repair it by fixing the power supply. So right now I am finally getting some use out of the device. I might have a look inside the old DVD player and see if I can find out what is wrong with it.

It seems that the media is finally working out that there will be a leap second at the end of 2005. In Australia as mentioned before this means that we need to add the extra second at 11am on 1-January-2006.