A short trip…

I have just got back from a quick trip into the city; well, actually North Sydney, but I had to go in through the city. Such a beautiful day. I did manage to get lost, taking the wrong exit going over there getting off the Gore Hill Freeway. I managed to get from just near Royal North Shore Hospital to my clients offices without using a street directory. I was impressed. It helps that they are near the Channel 9 tower so all I needed to do was look up and I could see where I had to go, basically.

On my way home, I was going to visit a another client of mine but he was not available for me to finish his job. I believe that the issue he is having is that he is unable to plug in his new keyboard or mouse. The old keyboard and mouse was killed by his toddler and a pen.

Dell

When I was on my way home, Dell rang about coming to repair my laptop. I was stuck in the M5 East tunnel at the time. By the time I got from there to Ingleburn, grabbed some lunch and checked if there were any emails that I needed to deal with the technician had arrived.

He didn’t even bother about powering down the laptop. He just shut down the DVD drive, put the new one in and tested it. And it worked. Whilst I am typing this Blog, I am recording a DVD of some WAV files. It is good to have a working DVD recorder again. It has been far too long.

When burning CD’s and DVD’s I have found that things work better if you kill Outlook before starting. You may not need to do this on a desktop, but on a laptop it does help.

Music

MIX 106.5 actually in the car for something different. Back when they were 2UW, I had a friend working there so I got a tour of the studio – a rather cool engineering thing to do. The office was rather bizzare – It was a split level spiral. Rather a strange place to visit – architecturally that is.