Author: Darryl Smith

The SMH has an article on a way to hire a NEW car in France for three weeks to 6 months for a french car company so that they can sell cars as used instead of new to reduce huge …

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The SMH has an interview with Belinda Carlisle about travel, her best and worst holidays. I love her comments about her worst holidays – and why.. I have enjoyed doing some programming today. It was fairly productive, and I got …

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Whilst I was doing some scanning I found an article on Unwired hardware. Running on 3.4 GHz it is causing some interference with people using some free to air satellites. Regardless of this, the article included some comments on the …

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This is being typed on one of my older laptops. This is my 2nd newest, and whilst it has a 1 GHz processor, and has something like 384 MBytes RAM it is not fast enough for a lot of the …

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I have being doing more programming today – something which I am finding is fun since things are basically working correctly. Sure, there are problems getting the program running properly, but that is programming. I have yet to meet a …

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There is a story about an April Fool’s Joke in Japan, where there is a new life size penguin. By life size I mean the size of a human. The story is on the Yahoo Web Site. I have had …

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[11:33pm]The code I have been writing is up to about 1000 lines. I have written all except for about 100 lines in the last week. I have probably written 3-400 lines of code today, although I have been modifying a …

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Think Geek has the SkyTag™ – Green Laser Aircraft Tracker which connects to the USB port of your PC. It costs US$149.99 and comes with software to track a moving aircraft. It allows you to point a green laser at …

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My brother was telling me about some of the fun he has had with his car. He has a 1988 Corolla Seca. It used to be mine, but I bought a new car and sold it to him for a …

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Here is an updated photo of the hardware I have designed. Not pretty but it works. And it is working very well actually. Working in the background today I have been doing a lot of scanning. I have a small …

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There has been a whole lot of reports in the news about the health of the Pope, containing lots of photos of The Vatican. When I was in Rome last year I took a few photos of the place. But …

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