Good thing I remembered that this job was on today. I had a phone call from the client when I was almost to his house – it would have been slightly embarrasing if I had not remembered I had the …
Sometimes I am a bit of an idiot… No! You do not need to agree with me. I was planning to be doing some work last week to finish of a job. Soon after that time was arranged we decided …
Intel have been playing with the Itanium processor. I mean messing with the internals, like removing the 32 bit hardware compatibility moving to software emulation. CNet discovered this and got a strange letter from Intel according to The Register. The …
I have come up with some rules for eBay. 1. Do not bid on any items until the end. The exception here is when you want the item to appear on the list of bids rather than the watch list.2. …
I have just finished watching the first series of MythBusters – and it has been fantastic. It is not surprising that this has been a hit series. If any readers have not seen this show then I would suggest examining …
During the last week I purchased a VoIP phone from eBay. The phone works well even if I needed to do some searching on the internet to find a copy of the manual. And even then the manual was not …
Cool new product – although probably not really useful in Sydney at this time of year – is the Slanket. This is a blanket with sleeves. With this blanket you can sit in bed, on a lounge or in a …
Just heard… The Tropical Cyclone off the Western Australian coast has been named after me… Yes. Me. It is Tropical Cyclone Daryl. I just wish they had got the spelling of my name correct!
I was watching a new episode of ‘My Family’ on the ABC, and I was having a great time watching it. This episode had the two main characters house-sitting in a new ‘designer’ apartment with no door-handles, voice activated lights …
Lawns mown. They took a bit over an hour, but should have taken less time. The starter cord broke once again. Thankfully this time I did not need to look for cord to replace it with unlike last time. This …
The patch panel for the installation job this week has been built, and painted. At least the undercoat has been painted. I also managed to throw some junk out – I found a few tins of paint that were empty …
Long time readers know about the saga of what my first live dog is going to be called – not that I am saying I want one, but if I ever did it MUST be called BYTE. I think that …
The electrical wholesaler was a tiny bit more expensive than I had thought, but the client will be paying. Still, it would have been nice to get the price reduced slightly from what I ended up paying. Not much I …
Shopping Time… I have a job early this week at Pymble, and I need supplies. So one of my jobs for this morning is to pick up the parts from the local electrical wholesaler. Should be an entertaining experience. Or …
This afternoon I was working with the SMS based tracking into my TeamTrack software. I did actually get it working this afternoon despite some issues, such as not actually having the SMS phone yet – and also with an SMS …