Some links … Monorails.org has a cute instructional article on a monorail for puppies in a back yard. Looks so cute… Not sure what the animals really think of the monorail. According to the SMH, Philip K Dick is missing. …
I had dinner with an ex-boss of mine tonight – rather an enjoyable evening sitting outside just catching up. For some reason it has been well over 12 months since we had caught up… So this was well overdue. I …
Not sure when they are on, but I know that the Commonwealth Games is coming up. I got a request from one of my clients for some hardware for the Opening Ceremony. I found some hardware off the shelf that …
The CIA is trying to get all warm and friendly, trying to take over the hearts and minds of kids everywhere. They now have a blue Teddy Bear called ‘Ginger’ who can take you on a tour of the CIA. …
For once work has been quiet… Only a phone call from a client at 7:30AM asking if I could make some changes to a report sometime in the next 24 hours, and an email or two. So basically I am …
As a diversion from real work I just spent a few minutes working on the XBox, on the forlorn hope that I would find a business use for the device. Anyway, I have managed to do a couple of things …
Working on the plane went yesterday – and once again the engine mounts allowing the plane to be rotated more than showed their worth. It seemed as if we were always turning the thing upside down and right way up. …
I somehow did not expect to be waking up at 9AM… And I was not disappointed… Thankfully I did manage to wake up at 6:15AM, which allowed me to get close to seven hours sleep. Maybe not enough to catch …
11:15PM and all is well… Apart from being dosed up on Coca Cola that is. Well, last night I managed to get to bed about 12:15AM and for some reason woke up at 6:15AM and could not get back to …
Strange… last night I had an eBay auction won by a person in the USA for some antennas, and now I have to get the price of shipping. The shippings is likely to be more than the antennas, but thankfully …
Yesterday in the workshop attending to the plane was fun. Not that we managed to do much since the task we were working on was a real pain. We were working on the landing gear weldments, where they attach to …
There is something somewhat civilised about sitting outside in the fresh are listening to the world go by – contemplating life. What is more civilised is when you are sitting there with an internet connection, and have nothing better to …
I noticed when I dropped in at Aldi yesterday that they had ‘XB Remote Controls’ on sale for only $14.99. Some research revealed that they were actually XBox Remote Controls, and although they are not genuine they are a great …
I read an interesting short article on CNN which mentioned how Target in the USA actually has a crime lab similar to CSI, and offers their services free of charge to government agencies who often are not as well equipped. …
The setup of the software went really well. There was one hickup installing the serial port driver thanks to windows absolute love for wanting to install drivers for some devices more than once. There are probably two drivers needed for …