I have just got back from shopping – I visited Macarthur Square – and this was a total disaster. I do not like to wait for people to walk back to their vehicles – but this is what I had …
PhD Comics has a great cartoon that shows my way of storting stuff on my desk. You can read the comic here. One of my programmers has sent me a link to the Web Service Enhancements that Microsoft has put …
It seems that I am working on a whole lot of international projects at the moment… The latest one is some potential work in Portugal. This would be some wide ranging and exciting work, potentially for the whole country. The …
I found a interesting review of the Laptop Lojack…. And basically the software is almost useless… But I had assumed that anyway… My server in Albury had an outage earlier today… The outage was reported on the SMH and on …
I have been working on a new tracking system for the last hour or so. Basically this has meant that I have taken some existing software, taken a copy, and then totally ripped the guts out of it. And I …
Home after getting a couple of jobs done… first was a quick stop at a clients workplace to do a quick inspection of some equipment. Thankfully all the equipment was there so what I expected to take about three hours …
Another sleep in morning… I like this – I am continuing to wake up closer to 7am. Unfortunately I got an email at 5am this morning from a client letting me know that I could go to their site any …
Not sure what is happening tomorrow morning. I have tried to make an appointment to get some work done but I have not heard back. Maybe I will hear tomorrow morning. Else I guess I will be working on more …
Over the last few months working on the plane, there have been lots of discusions about power coating metal. I managed to find a photo set on Flikr that actually shows how to build a powder coating paint gun… So …
The site Ueba.Net has a collection of pictures for some of the most bizzare vehicles ever. The one I love the most is the John Deare Ride On Mower that has been modified to be some type of perverted motorcycle. …
After a quick reboot my PC is running a whole lot better. Menus were no longer coming up, and the computer was somewhat sluggish. Rebooting improved things significantly. I don’t think it was running out of RAM but other resources. …
I may be going into the computer show today. I have a good handle on the industry anyway, and I am not sure that I will learn much. But I will decided a bit later in the morning… Microsoft is, …
More work on the spec… Now up to 80 pages, with another chapter being outsourced, and an excel spreadsheet attached to it…. One of the ways that Windows protects itself is a thing called ‘System Restore’. What the System Restore …
Today has been moderately successful in getting a handle on some user interface issues for the product I am working on. I have an idea on the rest of the user interface, but I dont have any concrete ideas just …
Dear Microsoft… I take it all back. I was mistaken. I was wrong. Please forgive me. Ok, well, I take much of it back… Most in fact. I will never forsake you again… So what has caused this change of …