It is now Friday night, and I thought I will update you all with my progress.

Firstly, I had a meeting in the local chineese restraunt this evening. Being a friday night I guess it was bussier than normal – we were the last ones to leave at 8:15. To be fair another couple of people came in just as we were leaving, but I think they were having take away. This was in central Boondah. The other thing I noticed was that the local Westpac is located inside the furniture shop. I guess they are lucky to have a bank. The food was good, and the meeting went well… This meeting was not with my client, but with a new client who had decided that it was easier for him to drive up here to meet me rather than drive to Sydney!

GPRS worked immediately in Boondah… My phone also worked, with a message being delivered almost as soon as we hit the main road. I was in a restraunt, and pulled the laptop out to give a demo of some software, and it just worked. This is how it should be!

The programming today went well, although there have been issues with hardware and software. The software issues have taken some initiative to fix. What I found was that there was too much CPU time being taken working on useless data through the RS232 on the device I was working on, so I had to reduce the CPU time with some pre-processing. That gave me just the processing time I needed. There have also been hardware issues which needed to be investigated and dealt with.

Thankfully the software seems to be working. I think I will need to work on some usability issues – things that I can fix without too many issues tomorrow. Not being a pilot I have to think what I would want if I was a pilot. And I know that I am not always right.. Some decisions are only a guess, and others are a trade off.

That might need to be all for tonight… I am beginning to crash…