Think Geek, the ultimate Geek store has another April Fool’s Day product called SnoozeAlert. From their WWW site, “Ever dream of being able to precisely control when you fall asleep and when you wake up? Need to make sure after that 48-hour study binge that you get some sleep *and* don’t snooze through the final exam? Tired of letting Nature dictate your circadian destiny? Take back control with SnoozAlert™ brand Sleep And Awake Aid™. “.

Following a link from BoingBoing.Net, I found a link to a Blog called MobileTracker which includes a technical description of vehicle testing a mobile phone network in the USA. For us engineers, this is a really interesting article. For non-engineers, it will probably bore your socks off.

The SMH has a disturbing Story about how a commercial airliner in the middle east had fuel gushing out the fuel tanks on takeoff. After two seperate attempts many of the passengers refused to fly on the plane home.

More Auburn

The photo below is from the roof of Auburn hospital. We had six of those dishes on the top of the hospital, and another six on the top of the Uni of NSW Library. If you look carefully on the left of the photo you can see the TV antenna for the building amongst the scaffolding on the left side. When people in the building started preparing for the opening ceremony, they worked out only one TV station would not work. Channel 7.

So I was tasked to an emergency repair job, moving the antenna and replacing the coax. I got the job done with hours to spare, and the picture looked great – or so we were told. We didn’t need Channel 7 since we had two links from International Broadcast Centre which we could get anything we wanted sent back. The only thing we didn’t have was the commentry. A scanner tuned to Channel 7 fixed that.