Author: Darryl Smith

Hmm… When I was out today I saw some LED traffic lights. These are lights with LED’s instead of normal light globes. It is interesting to look at the economics of Traffic Lights, normal and LED. Firstly, lets look at …

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I have just got home after spending the day working on the plane… This was fun even if it did seem that almost nothing got done all days. We did get stuff done, but it was mostly small and fiddly. …

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Some things are done a bit differently in the USA, particularly in Batton Rouge. Down there in the deep south, nursing students are getting their lectures in alternate locations. In this case they are getting lectures in the local cinema …

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I had an interesting meeting at lunch time today… Ended up taking three hours… Really really interesting. It will be interesting to see what happens out of it… This was at Vardy’s on King Georges Road at Beverly Hills. I …

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You would not believe how much time I have wasted. Sometime last night I made a modification to the embedded code that I am writing. What I did was to have two identical define statments. Basically a line like ‘#DEFINE …

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Cooking for Engieers is a cute site, based on the premise that us engineers cannot cook. Yeah, sure. I can certainly cook anything that I put my mind to without too many issues. But their Recipie Structure is sort of …

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According to the Space.Com Web Site, the Mars Polar Lander has been lost again. That’s right… Lost again. The lander was lost a few years back when it did not land well [crashed], and one of the space agencies thought …

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I think I just had a real win. Something only took me about 15 minutes and the use of some expensive equipment to solve. However I was lucky – it was one of those jobs that I thought was going …

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I have just spent some time fixing some tracking units… Of the failures, more than 50% are the fault of a carrier… Why will they not get things to work properly. I know the phone system is complex, but it …

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I just read a rather interesting article talking about the new Video iPod on the Wall Street Journal WWW site. Their review basically said cute toy, but dont expect too much from it. Expect this to be mainly a music …

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This morning I decided to have a look at PowWeb Logs which is where my Web Server is hosted in the USA. Actually it has been hosted here for a few years, and it has generally been quite good. My …

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I have just watched HOUSE, and in this a 12 year old was given a lumbar puncture. This actually gave me a cold shiver down my spine since I had one when I was about the same age. I cannot …

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Some links… Firstly, the SMH is reporting that Pier C at the Sydney International is going to be running at reduced capacity as they install a new baggage scanning machine. So bags will be tripple handled. This is not going …

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