Month: October 2005

The T G Daily Web site has a collection of some of the more interesting End User License Agreements available. The quote that I love the most is “We’re pretty confident in our software, but if it happens to entirely …

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Ever have days when you get nothing done? Well, today seems like that to me. I am getting nowhere with anything today mostly. I just seem to get call after call after call. And intersuprsed between calls are emails and …

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Two interesting phone calls this morning. The first was that one of my clients wants me to come up to brisbane next week. Queensland is probably the better way to describe this, but brisbane is the airport that is closest. …

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The EuroVision Song Contest is now 50 years old, so they held a competition to find the best song of the last 50 years. I only knew two of the songs and three of the artists, which just shows that …

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CSI Miami tonight was set in Hollywood… Mostly on Hollywood Blvd between Vine and Highland. This is an area I know reasonably well, and it looks as decayed in real life as bits of the show indicated – although there …

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I do not understand Foxtel. They say that they favour viewer choice… mostly over free to air though – but they still do favour viewer choice. Still, I found it surprising that at least 14 channels were in use with …

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Lunch with my grandmother was good… My grandmother is not well at all, not very communicative at all unfortunately. But she is now 83 and in a nursing home – and is in there for a reason – that she …

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Hmm… When I was out today I saw some LED traffic lights. These are lights with LED’s instead of normal light globes. It is interesting to look at the economics of Traffic Lights, normal and LED. Firstly, lets look at …

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I have just got home after spending the day working on the plane… This was fun even if it did seem that almost nothing got done all days. We did get stuff done, but it was mostly small and fiddly. …

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Some things are done a bit differently in the USA, particularly in Batton Rouge. Down there in the deep south, nursing students are getting their lectures in alternate locations. In this case they are getting lectures in the local cinema …

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I had an interesting meeting at lunch time today… Ended up taking three hours… Really really interesting. It will be interesting to see what happens out of it… This was at Vardy’s on King Georges Road at Beverly Hills. I …

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You would not believe how much time I have wasted. Sometime last night I made a modification to the embedded code that I am writing. What I did was to have two identical define statments. Basically a line like ‘#DEFINE …

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Cooking for Engieers is a cute site, based on the premise that us engineers cannot cook. Yeah, sure. I can certainly cook anything that I put my mind to without too many issues. But their Recipie Structure is sort of …

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According to the Space.Com Web Site, the Mars Polar Lander has been lost again. That’s right… Lost again. The lander was lost a few years back when it did not land well [crashed], and one of the space agencies thought …

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