For some reason I seem to be getting no work done today. Actually I am getting work done, but it does not seem to be things off my to do list. It is things that have never quite gotten onto …
Last night whilst I was working on a white paper for the client I visited yesterday, I was watching a Dan Aykroyd movie, and I loved it. The movie was The Couch Trip, with a plot that involved a mental …
PC Magazine have just released a review of the new version of Microsoft Office. This is only a review of the beta, but still, it gives an idea of what microsoft is doing. From what I can work out user …
In the SMH there is a story about how old textbooks are being used in japan to treat dementia paitients. That is the textbooks are being given to the paitients in hopes that the books would raise the old memories …
I have just got back from a three and a half hour two hour meeting that turned out to be really really interesting… It was one of those meetings that was broad and seems to be one of those meetings …
I had to meet a colleague for lunch today at the Macquarie Centre before a meeting nearby… Macquarie Centre has always intrigued me with the architecture – with the spiral structure. And the fact that it has an icerink. It …
It has been too long since I have worked on PCB design, meaning that I need to re-learn how software dose things. To be honest I am having some issues with the software. Things that should be simple like combining …
Some links today… Firstly the bizzare. Not the concept, but the engineering involved. iPowerWeb has a story on a person who has built an >anchient Atari Computer/Video Game into a laptop. I can only imagine the amount of work involved… …
I have been watching more of ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ on DVD, and parts are so crazy. At one point one of the band members comments that their band is louder since their amplifier goes up to 11 instead of …
News.Com.Au has a dog story… This one is a bit strange though… A tiny fox terrier called Mitzi and accomplice known Bundy the scottish terrier are now two of southeast Queensland’s most dangerous dogs. That is according to Logan City …
Boy, my week is filling up… I have a lunch to attend tomorrow, and friday. And now I have to go to a meeting at North Ryde… That could be a really interesting meeting, and I am really looking forward …
Dateline: Eastgardens… I am here to talk to a client of mine. He wants a circuit board designed… I first met him in 2002 when I needed a weather station and came over to pick it up. And we started …
My first job this morning is to spend some more time on the OzFlarm collision detection software for gliders that I have been working on. I will not go into the full details of what I need to work on, …
My next big project is a data logger for gliders to record their flights for official recognition. Basically it stores enough data to prove that the glider went where the pilot said it did. This includes things such as the …
I had a meeting last night with a client. He suggested I look at a couple of programs to assist in my productivity – not that there is anything wrong with it – just to manage work and my ToDo …