I have NOT had a productive day today. Like friday afternoon I have been in a battle with a GPS receiver. The problem is that I have a few of these for a customer, and need to get them working. I have no idea why, but this company has managed to use a completely different pinout for the GPS than any other unit on the market that I have found. Let me explain what I mean by pinout…. I mean that what most people call pin 1 they call pin 3. And rather than go left to right on each row of pins they are going clockwise.

This is NOT good. It has cost me so much time. And my supplier time too. Neither of us are happy at all about this. Thankfully this did allow me to work out that a heap of cables they made up were faulty and needed to be returned to the manufacturer. But that does not help me really.

Another thing I have been doing in my, ahem, spare time is work on an agenda for a meeting next week. It is going to be a doozey of a meeting, and the agenda is becoming a doozey too! There is quite simply far too much to do. And I suspect that those who need to do the things on it will not like it either. Still, that is next weeks problem.