I cannot believe how dumb security can be at times. According to a few sources, Qantas is forcing some people with DELL laptops to tape over the battery contacts on their computers, even if the battery is not part of the great DELL battery recall. I guess this is another reason to buy an after market battery. But I can hear it now… ‘No sir, I do not care if your laptop has a genuine battery or not. We are required to tape the batteries of all DELL laptops….’

I have been doing some software development, and I was wondering why the software was not running correctly… And realised how simple the solution was. Rather than run the routine every 15 seconds, I was trying to do it every 15,000 seconds. Needless to say I really did not want to wait the four hours to see the program run. Fixed now… I just need to test it.