Since i have reinstalled my Dell laptop, the PC seems not to want to restart correctly if I close the lid. If I select Standby on the Shutdown menu things seem fine. I probably need to find a patch somewhere, or a setting. Regardless it is a pain, but I can live with it.

The work today went well. I am about to test the hardware – cross your fingers that this will all work. My first trick is to set up my Firewall to forward the packets to my Laptop. And then set up the tracking unit and start playing!

My flight tomorrow is at 9:30AM – I was thinking of dropping over to the ID Service branch but I did not realize that I needed a signature before doing this, so I will get to go to the airport at some leisurely time in the morning, and probably have breakfast there. And given that it is only one night I will probably just park at the airport and expense the parking charges.

Phrase of the Day…
I was talking with a friend about computers, and somehow the subject of Harikiri came up – or the ritual japanese art of suicide. It is interesting to see what people think a word like that might really be. It happens all the time in rock music songs (As an example I thought that Green Day’s ‘Another Turning Point’ was ‘Another Turnip Boy’ for some reason). In this case the response was ‘Hurry Curry’… Which I surmised to be some bizzare form of gastroenteritis! Then again maybe we have come up with a new slang term for the illness 🙂