I have just read a great article in News.Com.AU about a journalist who has been training her husband using animal training techniqes. That is, now when he misbehaves she does not loose her temper any more, she just ignores him. …
One meeting down… A SKYPE one so I have not been outside the yet today. I am still waiting on finding out if I need to whip over Pymble at some stage for a meeting. Assuming that it is not …
I am up too early this morning – getting up about 6:45. Normally this would not be so bad, except that I went to bed about 12:30pm. I would have stayed in bed but I should be having a Skype …
The Tibet Institute of Performing Art tonight was interesting – you could see the chinese and russian influence in their art… It was certainly better than I thought that it was going to be. I also met I believe the …
Driving from Pymnle to the city… It was interesting. On lane cove road I was thinking how glad I was I did not need to drive during peak hour every day. And how bad the road was in parts thanks …
According to The Guardian, Duct Tape has saved the day on the Space Shuttle where it has been used to hold an space walking astronaught to jet pack. Duct tape was first used with great success in the Apollo 13 …
I find it strange how many quotes I get asked for at night… And what sort of work people are after getting done. It will be great if any of last nights queries come off – it would be really …
More on the Tibetan thing. Basically I need to take photos from each of the 14 songs and dances so that the lighting people in New Zealand can have everything set up before they arrive. Why this is important is …
One of my friends has asked me to attend the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts concert tomorrow at the City Recital Hall… They are performing in New Zealand in a few days and need some help with working out what …
I was doing some work earlier interfacing some software with OziExplorer. This is something I am doing a lot, and I think I am an expert at it. But today I was finding that if I stopped the program by …
You know something is up when the main phone and internet companies in Australia (excluding Telstra) decide to get together and develop a plan how they can compete with each other going forward. Or more importantly, how they can compete …
Today I have literally been working on the Travelling Salesman Problem which is a logic problem that asks what the shortest path a travelling salesman can use to go to visit a number of cities. This is one of those …
This blog is a bit later than normal… Blogger was down for maintenance… so it is now that I am updating things. Some bad news… Syd Barrett who founded Pink Floyd has died… Unfortunately he was affected by LSD for …
I got offered some more work from one of my existing clients today – some embedded hardware work with a small display… Unfortunately I cannot say much about the product at the moment, but it will be quite useful… Another …
Today I have been hacking up some VB.NET code to interface to OziExplorer. A client suggested that he needed a product, and I joked that I could have that ready by the end of the day. And by the look …