I have just spoken to a colleague in Ettamonga… He is driving up to Sydney, and I would guess he will be up here about 8PM or so. But I knew where he was before I rang him – he had GPS tracking on his car, and I was tracking him. Actually they are now in MULLENGANDRA, which is north of Lake Hume north of Albury.

I will be meeting him for dinner on the way through, and so he said to give me a ring when he got nearby. This is a completely ludicrous thing to say, or would be without the GPS tracking. And he is allowing me to see the position of the car of course. Otherwise it would be a complete lack of privacy.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience… A friend wanted to get me to do a PCB for a friend of his fathers. This would have been fine – and at least a days work at consultancy rates. But when I looked at it I worked out that you can buy a circuit for $50 that does exactly what this one does. And you cannot build it for that price in low quantities either. It would have been a nice payday, but I could not justify doing the work at that sort of price.

I picked up a cheap Belkin FM transmitter for my iPod at lunch time for my car. It will work until I get a docking station for the car. Have I said that I love my iPod? I just think that it is so cute…