I have been working on a new tracking system for the last hour or so. Basically this has meant that I have taken some existing software, taken a copy, and then totally ripped the guts out of it. And I …
Home after getting a couple of jobs done… first was a quick stop at a clients workplace to do a quick inspection of some equipment. Thankfully all the equipment was there so what I expected to take about three hours …
Another sleep in morning… I like this – I am continuing to wake up closer to 7am. Unfortunately I got an email at 5am this morning from a client letting me know that I could go to their site any …
Not sure what is happening tomorrow morning. I have tried to make an appointment to get some work done but I have not heard back. Maybe I will hear tomorrow morning. Else I guess I will be working on more …
Over the last few months working on the plane, there have been lots of discusions about power coating metal. I managed to find a photo set on Flikr that actually shows how to build a powder coating paint gun… So …
The site Ueba.Net has a collection of pictures for some of the most bizzare vehicles ever. The one I love the most is the John Deare Ride On Mower that has been modified to be some type of perverted motorcycle. …
After a quick reboot my PC is running a whole lot better. Menus were no longer coming up, and the computer was somewhat sluggish. Rebooting improved things significantly. I don’t think it was running out of RAM but other resources. …
I may be going into the computer show today. I have a good handle on the industry anyway, and I am not sure that I will learn much. But I will decided a bit later in the morning… Microsoft is, …
More work on the spec… Now up to 80 pages, with another chapter being outsourced, and an excel spreadsheet attached to it…. One of the ways that Windows protects itself is a thing called ‘System Restore’. What the System Restore …
Today has been moderately successful in getting a handle on some user interface issues for the product I am working on. I have an idea on the rest of the user interface, but I dont have any concrete ideas just …
Dear Microsoft… I take it all back. I was mistaken. I was wrong. Please forgive me. Ok, well, I take much of it back… Most in fact. I will never forsake you again… So what has caused this change of …
I have been doing some VisualStudio programming in VB.NET, and I have found some strange artifacts. The most important is with the TAB control in VB.NET. You can place tabs top, bottom, left or right, and place some text on …
Today is set for more documentation, although I might start at doing some application prototyping so that I can get a sense of the user interface requirements. And in a sense, this project will live or die on the user …
The director of The Da Vinci Code has rejected requests from a group that demanded that the movie provide a disclaimer pointing out that the movie is a work of fiction. Ron Howard laughs this off stating that the movie …
I have just finished watching the first in the new series of the BBC show TOP GEAR, and all I can say is that this show should be illegal. I have not laughed so much for ages… It is definitely …