One of the strange things that I have found in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is that if there are too many tabs to be seen then there is no indication that there are more tabs off to the side. …
I have a dinner with my brother tomorrow… I dont think I have seen him since early january since I installed his lights… So it will be good to catch up with him. Since he works in a University, I …
I just won an auction on eBay for an X-Box with an mod chip so that I can watch MPEG video streams without needing a PC. The price I got it for was very good. I used Bid-O-Matic which is …
I did go for a run – I did about 3km. At the end of it I was starting to get out of breath. I guess I was pushing a bit harder than I normally did, or maybe it was …
My car, it would seem, likes the M7. I have maneged to get about 570km out of a tank of fuel. This will be about 47 liters or so, and this is normal fuel, not the high octane stuff. I …
Ahh, the fun of hardware. There is a light down at the church that has not been functioning for a couple of weeks aparently. Since the resident electrician has left, it is up to me as the deputy to do …
Last night when I was at the video store I saw two movies which I had some sort of personal interest in. Depending what is meant by the word personal of course. Anyway the first was my self titled movie, …
What a fun and productive day… The plane is starting to look really really amazing. Today we basically finished riveting on the top skin at the back. This just needed some planning as to how to do this – some …
I traced down the problem with the grounds I was having last night… I had mis-identified the ground wire. Therefore there was no ground connection. Simple as that. When I connected the correct wire up, it worked. I wasted so …
Short post before bed… I am building tomorrow, so I need my beauty sleep. But before falling asleep, I need to write some notes. I have just wasted most of an evening seaching for a problem with an RS232 stream. …
This afternoon I started on a project. Photos are here… I have not finished it yet though. I am having some wiring issues with this hardware though… More soon.
One of the problems with multi-processing is what is called a race condition. That is what happens when two processes are fighting each other for whatever reason – for instance one process says if a > b then increase b. …
I really did not realise how uncomfortable my work chair had become until I visited K-Mart earlier and tried out one of their office chairs. The seat was so much more comfortable than the one in my office – which …
This may sound really strange but I am writing this in the back of my car. No, not on the back seat. I am actually standing with the laptop on the back parcel shelf, whist I have some tracking hardware …
I got contacted overnight about the item on eBay I was waiting on getting paid for. The buyer has now paid for the item so things are good. I guess that means I will soon be taking the parcel (which …
