Author: Darryl Smith

7-October-2007I have made it to Nadi. I am pretty sure that this is Nadi, but it really is hard to tell, given that it is most definitely night time. The flight across the Pacific from Sydney was relatively uneventful. The …

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There is something rather civilised about the Qantas Club. For me it is a business expense as it is an office whenever I am on the road. I guess you could also call it a fringe benefit that makes flying …

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I have designed a Rack Cabinet for my servers. Unlike common installations I have designed the cabinet so that it will not need Air Conditioning. It is located in a cool area with a large thermal mass that is at …

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I got some SPAM today from mediareleases@cecaust.com.au which is the Citizens Electoral Council of Australia. This is a group of loonies who believe that they are exempt from the SPAM ACT because they are a political party. Sure, their rubbish …

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I took mum to the haematologist yesterday for her checkup, and got her blood tested. The blood test results were not too bad, although the platelets were still down a bit. The red and white cell numbers are down a …

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To me, as an interstate non-lawyer I have some major issues with the Statement of Claim that was submitted to the Supreme Court. In the claim at the top of the document, the solicitor claims ‘Damages for Injurous Falsehood in …

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This post relates to THE CHASERS WAR ON EVERYTHING, and how they entered the restricted zone of APEC. Eleven people were arrested when the CHASER comedy team set up a fake motorcade and drove past the security checkpoints, and were …

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I found a cute Pizza Recipie link

I have been programming PIC18F8720’s for the last few days. And things have been going OK. But I have been working with some TIMER code, and I did some calculations, and what I found was that the timer was being …

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Recently I was at a family event, and I found that many of my relatives were on Facebook. So I decided to join Facebook. It is an interesting community. You can see the university free speech basis of the site. …

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There are some TV ads for SmartTraveller.gov.au, which is a Web Site for people going overseas. The TV ad tells that in many places it is illegal to take photos of some government buildings. I have just looked at the …

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I have just started a new business called InLocality which is intended to work in the space of Indoor Tracking.

A short update. Firstly mum is continuing to get stronger. She has driven her car a couple of times in the last week, and has felt strong enough even to walk up the front stairs without anyone home in case …

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I have just had a phone call from The Equity Group based in Erina, here in NSW. They were calling from a PRIVATE caller ID number, probably from India. It took me a LOT of time to find out that …

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