I have just found a strange problem in some tracker code. I have implemented a ‘state machine’ does a number of things in a sequence. The best way to think of a state machine is thinking of a recipie… Do …
Some people are seriously twisted. This being easter, someone has decided to make themselves an ‘Easter Egg Cake’. No, not using the chocolate from Easter Eggs, but using the creme from Cadbury Creme Eggs. The cook decided to use the …
Today I have got exactly ZERO things done from my to do list. Yes, NOTHING! Well, apart from a couple of meetings which did not actually make it onto the to do list anyway. And then there were some other …
Back in Sydney… My trip to the central coast was fairly quick… I think the slowest part of my trip was the M2 from the western side to Pennant Hills road… At least that seemed to be the slowest. I …
A quick post before bed… I have an early morning tomorrow as I need to drive up to Berkley Vale on the central coast so I need to get some sleep. Since I MUST be there early I need to …
I have been really really busy today. My to-do list just had things added to it today rather than having things completed. So much so that even writing this entry in the blog has taken something like a few hours …
There is a story in the SMH today, as well as most other news papers about a Uni of NSW student who did work on a search engine, who is now working for google. This sounds really really interesting. A …
Some sort of good news… Qantas is probably killing off Australian Airlines today… The bad news is that it is most likely to pull this into Jetstar International, doing this as a way to concentrate on that brand. The TV …
Finally home… I had a meeting at Pymble this evening… Went well, although I now need to write up about 10 pages of notes, and then do design work. In other words I have a lot of work to do. …
I got an email today from a uni in the USA wanting to set up tracking equipment on their fleet of busses for students. I am just wondering if I can get a trip to the east coast of the …
This photo is a classic bill from one of the Australian phone carriers. It is for a month’s GPRS usage for 14 phones. The dollar amount was reasonable, but this is a great reason why itemmised billing is not good …
I found something interesting about the various UNIX and LINUX distributions today. Commonly they limit the number of incoming TELNET and other sessions to something like 30 or 60, but finding how they do this is a real real pain. …
I am feeling rested now after building yesteday… This week is liable to be a busy week so I was glad I got enough sleep last night. Tonight I have a meeting, and then tomorrow I have an early morning …
Finally home.. Long day. I have been building this afternoon, and I am about to fall on the keyboard asleep. But I wanted to get my Blog updated before that. Today we spent more time working on the canopy frame. …
I just saw that the greatest movie that I have never seen has been awarded the greatest script ever. Casablanca was awarded the best by the writers guild in the USA. I have it on DVD… I will have to …
