Author: Darryl Smith

Stand up… Close your eyes… Repeat after me… There is no place like home. There is no place like home. There is no place like home. And before you know it… You will be at home. Just like me. I …

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I am now in the QANTAS CLUB in Brisbane Airport – the second airport I have been to today – waiting for my flight. I think I have about another 80 minutes until I need to board my flight home. …

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Intermittent problems are a real real pain to deal with… You are never sure what has caused them to fail, and then you are never sure when you have fixed them. (Un)fortunately, one of the units here has now got …

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My flight tonight gets in to Sydney at about 10:10… On Qantas. By the time I get my bags and find my car I guess it will be 11:00 before I am home. The QANTAS www site allowed me to …

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Dateline: Boonah 5:10AM Local Time [6:10AM Sydney Time] Last night I was told that the noise I thought was birds were actually fruit bats. They really love this entire area, but are more endemic around the Gold Coast area to …

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It is now Friday night, and I thought I will update you all with my progress. Firstly, I had a meeting in the local chineese restraunt this evening. Being a friday night I guess it was bussier than normal – …

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Seems that Blogger.Com has an issue According to this Forum. Other people are having issues FTPing with Blogger.Com

Starange… Posts are not updating… Not sure why… Looking at it… My Hosting company seems fine. I canot see any status things with Blogger… Not sure… things look right… Lets see if this works!

It really is beautiful out here… Right now it is 9:34PM, and things are quiet. There are insects from all directions that can be heard as well as some other animals. I actually saw my first cane toad for this …

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A little earlier I had a quick connection to the Internet through GPRS… But it was one way and did not work at all… It dropped off, and I have not been able to re-establish things. So right now I …

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It looks like I will be flying back to Sydney on Saturday after a days flying, working on testing hardware and software. Sounds like a fun day, but I expect it will be a long day. Just like today actually… …

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OK… The flight up here was good. Virgin are efficient at getting people into the aircraft and off at the other end. I was a bit dissapointed with having leather seats, but that does keep the costs down. Being on …

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I have arrived in Boonah… I am on dialup right now since my GPRS will not work. I get signal strength but I cannot get a connection with Vodafone or Optus. I will post more later, but it is really …

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There are a few interesting stories on the SMH Web Site. Firstly there is a story on how Sydney is living on Burrowed Time referencing the Brian Kennedy story on Sydney tunnels and buildings. That book is an interesting read. …

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Right now I am sitting at Gate 40 at the T2 domestic termianl, just waiting for the plane. I think it is just after first light meaning that it is starting to get light, but that the sun has not …

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