I think I am going to go back and enroll at a local school… The question is which one is more appropriate… Primary or High school. Probably lower high school. What has brought this on? Well, I have just been searching for a bug and wanting to do some programming. The bug took too long to work out. Lets assume you want to write 10 numbers in a row starting at zero. That is 0, 1, 2 etc. Question: What is the last number to be written… That is easy. It is the number ‘9’. But of course I said 10… This is actually called a fensepost error, but regardless I need help.

The other one was that I need to work out if two points are within 1000 units of each other. I know the distances for the sides of a right angle triangle. So pythagorus says SQRT (x^2 + y^2). But SQRT will not work well on this device… And I have been thinking of bizzare ways to fix this… But I did not think of the obvious. I just square both sides… 1,000,000 > (x^2 + y^2). Much simpler and takes much less time. Things that highschool students should be able to work out…

Last night I was having hassles with working with a server in Canada. I could *NOT* get things to work… Then I decided to connect from another server on my own ISP. It was fine. So I disabled my proxy on my Firewall for Web pages… And things suddenly started working. You would not believe how much time that took me to solve. ARGH.

So there you have it… Time wasted, but that is normal. I hope that the next 24 hours will be more productive than the last 24….

And whilst I remember it, one of my friends has suggested that I look at the Brekeke WWW site for a simple PABX software package for UNIX and WINDOWS. It is cheap, and I will have a look at it… Cool.