One of my least favourite tasks is working on my tax. Thankfully the grunt work is done – the accounts are balanced and I just need to do some reports and write out my group certificate, and then get my tax stuff to my accountant. Actually after a few years I am working out how to do the data entry so that it really is not that much of a pain. I just hate doing it.

A friend of mine sent me a link to an interesting project called CubeSatKit. Basically this is a KIT SATELLITE… it contains, for a few hundred dollars, most of the things you need to build a real working satellite. The major thing that it does not include is the launch, which is getting increasingly difficult to obtain now that building satellites is becoming more popular. I know a few people who have built satellites, although they have built much larger ones, and basically kicked off the micro-satellite industry.

Finally, there are reports coming from Melbourne about how photos of buildings have been banned on ‘terrorism’ grounds. I somehow do not think that this will stop terrorism, any more than a national ID card would. link.