Author: Darryl Smith

My meeting this evening has been cancelled. One of the participants has needed to pull out thanks to a pressing engagement… So I am in the process of rescheduling the meeting. A pain really. Right now I am in the …

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Note to self. Do not kick your shin on a plane. Not only does it hurt, it takes some time to fix. My leg is still sore from where I kicked the plane on Saturday. Come to think of it, …

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Finally home… And I just turned the TV on to watch some stuff that I recorded earlier.. and James Blunt is on the ABC. How cool. The song playing is ‘Goodbye My Lover’ which is a song I love so …

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Ok… It is now 7:30 AM and by all rights I should be in bed asleep for another few hours – preferably until close to midday. But we cannot always have what we want, and it seems that my body …

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Given that today is Easter Sunday, I guess the first thing I should do is offer everyone a happy easter. Given the weather this weekend I am convinced that this is NOT easter. The easter weekend is supposed to be …

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Not sure if I mentioned this yesterday, but I now have a material that I hate more than Stainless Steel. There is a material that is more hideously dangerous than perspex… More able to cut hapless fingers. Just more dangerous… …

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The perspex canopy of the plane is now in pieces… No! This is a good thing. More work is needed but the canopy has been at least patially cut to size. The windscreen and the slide back part are now …

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Lomont.COM is about to release a 3D LED CUBE as a kit or fully built. The colour version looks so cute… Great as a sculpture in an office building, but probably not great in most homes. I think it would …

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I just read in the paper version of the Sydney Morning Herald that one of the original Pointer Sisters has died in L.A. I suspect it was complications following years of drug abuse, but that was not noted in the …

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Midas in the USA ran a competition for the longest commute to work. The contest was won by a Cisco Employee who drives just under 300km each way between home and work. Yes – 300KM EACH WAY!!! The poor worker …

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I don’t drink… If I did I would love a new type of drink that mimics the results of alcohol, but without the horrible side effects. In addition, at the end of the evening there is actually an antidote that …

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The SMH has a story about a book that suggests childcare is not ideal for children. I guess I was under the impression that childcare was there for when parents were not able to look after their kids because of …

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You can tell it is easter… One whiff of easter and it startes to rain. We have had no rain for weeks, and now with the long weekend almost here we have had some rain… It does not matter when …

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I have just found a strange problem in some tracker code. I have implemented a ‘state machine’ does a number of things in a sequence. The best way to think of a state machine is thinking of a recipie… Do …

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