Some Programming

One of the disadvantages of working for yourself is that there is no boss to be angry with for any reason. Nor is there any way to have a weekend free of work if you know that you must do the work.

An example of this is a job that I have been working on since November for a client. When I went away at christmas I was stressing out since the application was not finished as much as I had wanted. Well, right now there seems to be one last bug-fix needed, and then the client should be happy.

This project is cool though… I get to play with satellites. I always love playing satellites… My first experience was with MIR, the Russian Space Station. I didn’t get a chance to speak to Andy Thomas when he was up there, but I heard him early one morning. Since then I have had a chance a few more times to play with satellites. It always gives me a thrill.

Then I will need to do some horrible things like write doccumentation. At some stage soon I think I will need to employ someone to write documentation for me. I even have a person in mind too.

Old Laptop

I think the HDD on the old laptop has finally died. I am now getting disk errors on it when I start the computer. I just checked. The HDD warranty expired 2004-12-20 which is not so great. I just wished it had failed back then. Right now I dont think I have any data on that HDD that I dont have anywhere else. Since the drive is not yet dead I will let it cool down overnight, and copy any data off tomorrow using a USB drive.

I now need to get a new laptop HDD for that machine. ARGH. It is also a pain since that is the only working CD burner in the hose. My main laptop has a faulty DVD burner that I need to get fixed. One more thing on my

Something Small

I thought people might be interested in some of the things that I work with. The photo below is of a microprocessor in my tracking unit. I program thie device, and get it to do what I want it to. And I actually soldered it to the circuit board. Each of the eight pins needs to be individually connected without being connected together. This can be challenging at times. And my fingers are not large, it is the part that is very small.

Music: I picked up a 3CD set called All That Chill today. I have not yet had a chance to play it since I had a friend come over for a few hours this afternoon. Maybe this evening I will get a chance to play some of it.