{"id":2078,"date":"2005-10-12T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2078\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:31:05","slug":"2078","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2078","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy working on the PIC processor design &#8211; apart from when I have been watching some TV. I just finished watching HOUSE, and enjoyed that. It was a break from work &#8211; something I am doing too much of today, but there is not much I can do about that. I have solved one other problem with the PIC. What I was finding was that the CPU was having too much CPU used at times during processing. I have traced this to a Serial OUTPUT statement. This was taking too much CPU time and causing big problems. <\/p>\n<p>I now need to get on with writing the software. And this will probably mean writing an emulator to send the correct data to the serial port so I can test things. <\/p>\n<p>A few days back I was speaking to a friend of mine, talking about life, the universe and everything. The conversation got really interesting &#8211; one of those late night chats, but in this case it was over MSN. It is such a great tool to use and just talk. And talk. People who seem so together on the outside are more comfortably able to open up in such a medium&#8230; There is probably a good journal article there for some Psych professor, if it has not already been done. <\/p>\n<p>With saturday approaching rather quickly, I am actually feeling fairly good about everything&#8230; Being really really busy does help a bit, but not as much as you might think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy working on the PIC processor design &#8211; apart from when I have been watching some TV. I just finished watching HOUSE, and enjoyed that. It was a break from work &#8211; something I am doing too &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2078\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-2078","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}