The Story of the Photo –>
There is a story to the photo on the right side of this page up the top. The photo was taken just before Chirstmas 2000 in Hollywood. Through my work on the Paralympics I had got a consulting gig in …
Author: Darryl Smith
New Zealand – And Contacting Us
New Zealand I have found some cool photos of my friends place in New Zealand. This first photos shows the guest house on the left side with the tennis courts and the main house on the right. Everything you can …
Feeling stressed and Horrible
Right now I am feeling horrible. I have been fairly fine most of the week. Yesterday I spent the day out doing some work with a friend, and the locale brought back lots of good memories. And although these were …
Church
Church was good today… Rev Chris Walker was preaching and we had communion. Church reminded me to a saying that I love… Christians should ensure this life For this is the worst it gets. Non-Christians should enjoy this life For …
Trackers and Truckers…
Good Morning one and all… It is always hard when someone asks what I do as a job. If I had a normal job, sitting in an office or a shop then answer would be easy. Well, I sit in …
Evaluating Stuff
In New Zealand I was staying in a friends house in Coatesville. Sure, this sounds like some small town, and it is. They have a single restraunt, a small corner shop type takeaway place, an antique shop and a couple …
More Programming Strangeness
More strangeness from the programming environment. I have just got a new version of the programming software for the device. I tried to upload code and it gave me a comment that there was a missing “(” on line 1. …
Music… More and More
OK. So my music collection is important to me. I am not sure why. I think many times I buy music to remember a feeling, or to relive a phrase. A few years ago I heard a song by Bachelor …
Stress Relief – Jogging
Now that the weather is starting to get a bit cooler it is time to start thinking about running again. It has been two or three months since I was last running, and I am missing the rush that comes …
Time to buy a rural newspaper…
I have just spent half of today and a lot of yesterday working on about two pages of software. My brain is turning into tapioca with such work. I have been writing a simple stack system to work on an …
Time to start that new job… Farming
I have just spent the last few hours doing some programming. I am getting there, but the work is running a bit late since I needed to have a LONG weekend to get away from it all. Anyway I have …
Music… And lots of it…
The Phantom of the Opera. I picked up a copy of the double CD in Auckland Airport. The price was about the same I paid for the single CD… If anyone wants a single CD please let me know. Anyway …
Can you Tune a Fish?
There is an article on the Internet about a Self Tuning Piano. This piano uses power to tune each string – creating a piano with 250W or there abouts of power heating the strings. The problem is that the piano …
Update and Apology
I am now in New Zealand, and I am emjoying myself. The guest house on my friends property is beautiful. I really love this country – so beautiful and peaceful. We spent the morning working on getting his digital eight …
New Zealand… The Answer
So, how was my trip? Well, it is interesting to see how prayers are answered. Going to New Zealand was my way of giving myself some time to work through some personal issues – a cancelled engagement in fact. Thursday …