The London bombings are horrible of course. Thing thing that has brought some of this home is that unlike Bali and New York is that I have been to the places that the bombs went off. When I was in …
I will be working on the plane tomorrow – I am not sure that building is the right word. Richard and I will be doing preparation work for painting sometime over the weekend. It will not be fun, but it …
I have just done a backup of my programming directories. This is something that is really important since I do not want to loose work if something happens. Anyway, I just Zipped the lot, and I found that I have …
This has got to be one of the more interesting used of Satellite technology. A company has Created a carpet that is embedded with satellite photos. There is an interesting article on EarthWeb about the DecNet protocol. When I was …
Tonight I watched ‘Airport 75’ which I recorded from last night on Foxtel. It was interesting to see how things have changed in the last 30 years or so, and to pick up all the strange things that were shown …
I have been trying to get GPRS working somewhere in the South Pacific… The results are about what I would expect for a monopoly telco. Unfortunately that is. Nothing would surprise me. We could not get the tracker to work, …
I don’t think I mentioned this yesterday, but I got a great Optus bill for some mobiles – It was only for about $90 for a month, for about 3 or 4 SIM cards, so it was not bad. But …
I slept really well last night… I think I really needed it for some reason. Not sure why… It looks as if I will be building Friday and probably saturday. Basically it will be a painting exercise. Should be really …
I promised to add some photos that I took earlier. These are from my trip to Bathurst today. I am still getting over the trip – I really loved it so much, These first two photos are from the air …
I have just got home after being out… And it was fun. Just after lunch I was asked if I wanted to go flying… Yeah, sure. Why not. So we went… We left Bankstown at aboyt 2:30 flying over Katoomba, …
The LA Times has an interesting editorial on how AOL was the savior of the ‘Live 8’ concerts for many people in the UK. MTV it seems concentrated in Philly rather than london, and was running the same stuff on …
Hmm… I am watching an early 70’s movie on Cable – ‘Airport’… The movie is a bit dated but in generally it is not too bad. They were starting with some of the more advanced effects and using some of …
I have been working much of the day with VB.Net. Programming is fun – at times. I have some other work to do, and I am trying to work out how to solve a few problems. I have been updating …
This morning has gone really really quickly. I have been forwarding some software to a few friends to get their comments, and then they come back saying cool. And then wanting a feature or three. And then I send that …
Time flies when you are having fun according to the saying. I think it is about right. I have been programming since just after 7am, and just looked at my watch and it is now 8:30. No wonder I was …
