Author: Darryl Smith

I thought that I had worked out how to change the oil on my car. Use the wheel ramps. Place a big sheet of cardboard under it. Use a tub for the old oil, but place a garbage bag in …

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My MP3 collection is getting tidier. I am down to about 5850 tracks. Well, actualy it is a few less since I have the audio CD’s from the ABC series on The Olympics called ‘The Games’ there, and that takes …

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I returned the FM transmitter to Tandy at lunch time – returning it was really simple and painless. I just said that the device would not work thanks to the number of radio stations in the local area running on …

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I went down to Vodafone to pick up the SIM card. That was a bit of a painful experience. Their IT systems were running slowly thanks to RemoteDesktop being slow. Their phones were running with about a 10 second delay …

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An update on the album art program. It is looking great. I did not realise you could select all your tracks and say ‘Search for Album Covers and Update’. This worked fairly well. I am doing this in the background …

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Updating Album Art in iTunes can be a pain. But there is an answer. It is iTunes Art Importer from YVG Software Services. This is freeware, and works really well. Except that it crashes if your music files are set …

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I have just spoken to a colleague in Ettamonga… He is driving up to Sydney, and I would guess he will be up here about 8PM or so. But I knew where he was before I rang him – he …

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I have a few things to do today and I am running a bit behind. My desk has piles of stuff on it, and lots of to-do lists… Hmm. Too much to do. Too little time. I have a PCB …

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As mentioned in another post I now have an iPod Photo. I ended up getting the 40 GByte model. I did not even known that this one existed until I went to the store. I was intending to get the …

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I have just got home from Richard’s… Which is why there have been no entries today until now. I have only just got home, and it is now 9:10PM or so. I also got up late this morning and did …

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Tomorrow I will be helping Richard with the plane so that we can paint some parts the following weekend. Well, maybe painting the following weekend… We will see… Last night there was not much on TV, but flicking around the …

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I don’t believe it… It is now four months since ‘The Split’ and it has both gone very quickly and also slowly. Lots of soul searching and thinking. I do miss being in a relationship, but I have definitely moved …

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