Short run today… 5.1KM and 37m10s. That means I ran about 8.233KM/H. I am sure that I could have done better but I had a couple of phone calls in the middle which caused problems with my breathing. Which in …
I got a book in the mail from AMAZON.COM yesterday called ‘Droidmaker’ which is some of the history of George Lucas and his company Industrial Light and Magic. Not that I am a great fan of StarWars, I love the …
During the night I had a Skype chat from a friend in New Zealand letting me know he will be in Oz from 8AM until 3PM or so this afternoon, and wanting to know if I want to do lunch. …
This is so cute… a DIY Hoverboard… Basically a personal version of a hovercraft just larger than a skateboard. Built using a small petrol leaf blower, and some wood and some other bits and pieces… I am not sure I …
I have just finished building up my first OpenTracker. Since I am now the Australian Distributor of this device I thought I had better build one so that I could see what they are like. I am quite impressed. They …
There is a story on News.Com.Au about an armoured car robbery in Sydney at the QANTAS facility at the airport. According to the report two robbers stole a cool $1m in cash. I did look at selling a tracking system …
I am not totally sure how useful this is, but WikiPedia is now available as an 800 MByte eBook for your iPod. I dont think there are any pictures in it reducing the usability slightly, but this sounds like a …
For some reason I am but tired at the moment.. I should have had an afternoon sleep I guess but I had a few phone calls… and I did do the run which took time.. Maybe I will have an …
I just did a nice little run… 4.57KM which was not bad since it was a lot warmer than I thought it was going to be… and I did it in 33min 13sec. Not a bad effort I must say, …
My server is now back and running well… It was off the air for too long, but we now have connectivity again, so the world is good. The vehicles are busy dumping their history data into the database and clients …
I did something new today. Something I have *NEVER* done before. I buily myself a capacitor… It is one of the three main electronic components, and I have built the other two in the past, but as far as I …
I had an email overnight from a friend in the USA. He had been reading my blog, and had seen my post on dog names, and wrote to say that it ‘Reminds me of the comic Stephen Wright who named …
Someone has created some cute Lego figures of the Mythbusters hosts. These figures just look so lifelike. Well, maybe not lifelike, but they certainly do look like the real Mythbusters. Any fans of Mythbusters should do themselves a favour and …
I just had a telemarketing call from ‘Lifestyle Dynamics’ which tried to sell me accomadation vouchers. The call was from overseas somewhere… Not sure exactly where… They said that they were a ‘Fortune 500’ company on the Australian Stock Exchange. …
For some reason I just feel that I have not got much work done today. I am sure that I have done work… It just doesn’t feel like it. I actually did not manage to get lunch today either. Argh. …
