After thursday nights reinstall effort, I felt rather tired yesterday… So tired I just needed a ten minute nap about 4:00 in the afternoon. Working from home it allows me to do that occasionally. Well, except for when clients or potential clients ring up. But it did not quitw turn out that way.

I had a potential client ring up – actually the father of a student from a school nearby asking about the prices of Wireless networking. Basically there are about 30 classrooms in this school, and the school got a grant a few years back to install network cabling for computers in rooms. But the school cut costs by not placing any of the cabling in conduit meaning that most of the cabling has failed. And they got a quote to replace it all – at $50-60K. Obviously the school could not really afford this. So they were looking at Wireless Networking. Unfortunately for them I dont think wireless will suit their needs, but thankfully they can get a wired solution a bit cheaper than they have been quoted.

Using parents to assist the job it would be significantly less than this I think. And significantly cheaper than wireless too. Some simple things can make significant differences – such as changing the setup of the rooms so that the computers are near the wiring rather than on the other side of the room. I may get some work out of this one. If not I have done good anyway.

I got another enquiry on Thursday from a Surf Lifesaving Club in Victoria wanting to track a vessel. This is another of thos jobs where they need to save as much money as possible. I am just wondering why I can’t find clients who just want to send lots of money my way 🙂

I mentioned that I needed to do some work yesterday afternoon and evening to get a demonstration working. Well, the demo went fairly well, apart from some minor issues with hardware… Hopefully this will turn into a major project.

Photo of the Day

OK. Here is a photo from the archives. I was cleaning my desk and came across a whole lot of old business cards. And I found an old ID card on the pile containing a photo of this handsome person. That is me, when I was in year 5 or 6. I think it is from the end of Year 6, so that I had it for High School.