Lunch I am going to North Ryde today for lunch. I am meeting one of my good friends for lunch… I have not actually seen him since, um, november I think. We have spoken since then of course, but mostly …
Author: Darryl Smith
Some More Photos
I found this cute photo I took of a car back in 2003 in a museum. It is a Kingswood, and I thought it looked cute. I can’t quite remember which museum it was – I have an idea, but …
Even more exhausted…
I just did a count of the SIM cards on my desk. There are 14. Wellm there are 14 activated SIM cards out in the open. There are another six in a box on the floor, and one in my …
Run Away… And Mobile Data…
I have just been for a run. It is a bit warm and humid outside after a morning thunderstorm. The sky is now mostly blue, probably in the high 20’s. I went a bit further today – going exactly 2.0 …
No Run yesterday….
No run yesterday. By the time I got home from an afternoon taking my business partner from the airport to Penrith, then to a friends business and back to the airport, I was exhausted. 12 Apostles Helicopter Rides When he …
Old Tapes – Fashion Parades
Younger people reading this blog may not remember cassette tapes. They were used to copy albums before recordable CD’s. In fact my first CD writer cost me $1400 and blanks were about $14 each. And yes, I did have a …
More Telstra SIM problems, And Missed Work
Some times I get really annoyed with Telstra. I have been working on GPRS tracking for a while. We got some SIM cards activated with GPRS recently. They were put onto a GPRS plan. And we were told that they …
Telstra Sim Fun
I have found that Telstra is not really set up to activate SIM cards over the phone, when you already have the SIM. They start wondering how you got the SIM, and why. They find it even more strange when …
Unexpected Trip to the Airport
I need to make an unexpected trip to the airport today. My business partner has a meeting in Penrith, and and decided to fly up instead of drive… So instead of driving himself from Albury, he is flying in. So …
Oscars
I admit it… I only saw a little of the delayed replay of the oscars. Basically from 10:30PM. There were frankly better things on TV than watching awards shows talking about movied I had not even heard of. The Oscar …
Storage in the Workshop
I have been cleaning the workshop. Some items are stored in cases, and other in crates. The cases contain things like old circuit board, connectors (when I have 1-200), some cables, etc.The second area is crates. Crates are great for …
Doing Stuff
The last few days have been a good excuse to clean up. I have been working on getting stuff cleaned up for the last three months or so, but it has accelerated in the last month just since I am …
Mainly Music.
Music: I am listening to a group from the USA that is about to release an album. A friend asked me to have a listen to it, and I can assure you that as soon as it becomes available I …
More Cleaning Up
I have been doing more cleaning up this afternoon. I was about to say I did not realise how much junk I had. But the thing is that I think I actually did. I got more of it thrown out …
A survey
Writing a Blog can be hard. Not only do I need to write what I want to write, I need to write what other people want to read. With that in mind I have devised the following survey. Please take …