A couple of links… There is a cute story on Wired about how hacker reprogrammed his cochlear implant so that he could hear music in it’s former glory. The quote that I love from the article is “My hearing is …
Friday afternoon… Time for some time off… There were once again issues with the work that I did this morning. Why will things not work when I need to test the? I hate it when that happens. ARGH. Seems that …
The good thing about waking up in the middle of the night is that I tend then to sleep longer. I am not sure why this is, maybe there is just enough momentum in being that extra bit tired to …
Yes, the time on this post is correct… It should say it was created just after 4am. Yes, I know I should be in bed, but I could not sleep, so I came out to check my email rather than …
I have just put a Pizza in the oven… In 20 minutes or so it should be cooked. I have not made myself a Pizza for ages… This one is a fairly healthy recipe – and Pizza’s are fairly easy …
I have been putting back a task for ages. Basically my mapping system interfaces to the OziExplorer software, and adds text to the text that would normally appear as a ‘tool tip’. Now, each client it seems wants different information …
I have spent some more time working with ‘Updater’ from The Code Project, and the more I look at the program the more I can see that it has issues. I actually could not work out how to actually get …
The Comp.Risks digest contains some interesting notations. The first one is to suggest that it is not a good idea to write a cheque on your birthday since you will probably enter the date of your birth on the cheque …
I am not sure if anyone else saw the Google header logo in the last day or so, but I thought it was cute. It is what appears to be Braille…One of my friends commented that he could not work …
A friend of mine MSN’ed me this morning from up north… He was looking at buying a Garmin GPS 100 on eBay for $200, thinking that this was a good deal for a GPS. I had an idea it was …
One of the things I want to get going is to set up rSync on my server. rSync is one of the great backup programs available – it allows you to synchronize two different directories and keep them up to …
A friend of mine in Brisbane was wanting to know how far it is between two points on the globe. I have worked on this before, and had the code already. So here it is. It returns the distance between …
I am slowly getting though my to do list. One of the issues that I was working through was that I was getting some really strange position reports uploaded to my database after being sent through email. I traced this …
I have now got down to 60 unread email messages in Outlook. I have looked at most of the unread messages – having them there is sort of a to-do list for things that are not on my to-do list. …
I surprised myself by going for a run this morning, and actually running for about 22 or 23 minutes. I was not expecting to be able to go so far or so fast having not run for a few weeks, …
