DVD Players in Cars

India

One of my friends has just asked me if I want to go to India for a few days to do some work for him. Basically I will just need to visit the airport. OK, I may need to leave the airport only if I need to visit a hotel. But apart from that I don’t need to leave the airport.

It would be a long way to go for a days work. But it would be fun. And it would be paying work. It should also be Business Class so things would be a bit nicer. With computer power these days it would also allow some decent programming time on the plane.

DVD Players in Cars

There was an article in Monday’s paper about how DVD players are now popular in cars. It was on the front page of the SMH. The article was slightly incorrect in what it suggested the legal situation was with DVD players in cars. They noted that it was illegal to have a DVD player that was likely to cause distraction to the driver of the car or to the driver of any other car.

Unless things have changed in the last 6 months, the situation is that it is illegal to have a “TV or Video Display Terminal visible by the driver of the vehicle; or the driver of any other vehicle”. This is the situation in NSW. The reason I know this is that I was researching GPS units in cars. It just depends in that case on the definition of a Video Display Terminal. However for DVD players in cars the situation is quite plain.

Then again you could also argue that a police radio has a video display unit and is therefore illegal to use whilst the vehicle is in motion.

Running

Later today I will go for another run. I will see how far I can go. I am hoping to make it to about 3KM, but I think it is more likely to to 2.5km. It really will depend on the temperature. I know that my fitness level is dramatically improving.

Music:

I now have a shoebox of casettes to throw out. And I have another 10 or so casettes to transfer to digital. I need to ask my father about digitizing the casette tapes of my father interviewing my great-grandfather. This I think would be interesting to listen to – I know the tapes exist but I have never heard them.

I found an old song I loved – Stay by Shakesphere’s Sister. I haven’t heard the song for ages. Cold Case last night played Duran Duran’s Ordanary World. I love this song. Probably the best CD is Greatest which has this and so many other clasic songs. Strangely, Sanity.Com has the DVD for cheaper than the Audio CD.

Computer History – Build an Apple 1

One of my interests is the history of computing. The stories behind the technology. How the internet came into being. That sort of thing. I was reading SlashDot this morning and found a link to a Web Site offering a replica of the Apple I for sale. Rather tempting apart from the back that I have so much more junk here already. If it looked more exactly like an Apple 1 then I might pick one up as an antique artifact…