Back to the PIC coding today. I have decided on how I will structure the code. This can be a pain given the capabilities of the language. Since I am using a version of Basic, then things are not as …
There is a story on News.Com.Au about how the Bible Society has converted the bible to SMS format. They used the Contempory English Version and it took about a month to convert the entire bible. And it would cost about …
I solved the problem with the PIC stuff… Turned out to be the initialization of the ADC… Took too much time… So much so that I did not get lunch until 7:00pm this evening… In the same vein as the …
Definitely a time to have a short break from programming this %^$^#%$* device. I have had a few hassles… Mostly to do with the analog to digital converter which converts analog signals into digital signals. In this case it is …
Blogger.Com was down for two hours for ‘Scheduled Maintenance’. However they did not bother to post on stats.blogger.com that Blogger would be down… So it was an unscheduled scheduled downtime…
Right now I am playing with the PIC processor I described earlier. Basically things are working fairly well. I am using PicBasicPro from microEngineering Labs to write code for this device. I am using MicroCode Studio from Mecanique in order …
A PhD Student in colorado has an interesting page on her WebSite about how to put together an bodice with LED lights embedded into it. Interesting read, although the top does need some improvements with regards to mechanical strength I …
There is a story in News.com.au about a lawsuit… Regarding the Harry Potter movie. Apparently there is a band called the Wyrd Sisters, and they are suing over the use of the band name The Weird Sisters in the new …
Cute… According to SlashDot.Org, AutoDesk have purchased Alias|Wavefront, the company started by my friend Bill Kovacs. This is very interesting because AutoDesk already own 3D Studio Max, which was written by another friend of mine. So of the two professional …
It seems that I have been on the phone half of today. I just love the VoIP phone. I do not know how I did without it. Knowing that I can ring someone at 10 cents whereas it would cost …
I have just tried to call a Melbourne number with my VoIP device. No luck – I got a message saying that all the circuits are full and to try again later. This means that they have a dialout number …
Work has started in ernest… I have started coding – the first step was to clean up some existing code before I could actually do any other work. The challenge here was to sort the code out so that I …
Some links before I start work in ernest. The SMH has an article on how a phone tap was used not only to save a prosecution in a court case but convict others of attempting to pervert the course of …
A friend of mine forwarded me a link to a strange WWW site. This one is for the University of Nigeria. This is of course a spoof Web Site. To the best of my knowledge there is no such place …
I think that AlwaysOnline read this blog, and heard that I was planning to defect, and have blocked the use of VoIP services… That is what it seems like at least – the VoIP box has stopped working and I …
