A Fiancé Meeting
Sometimes being the secretary of an organisation has its problems. These problems usually have to do with a work requirement. But not always. I always produce the minutes for my church in real time. I type them at the meeting, …
Author: Darryl Smith
Olympic Memories
Watching the Movies has brought back a few memories for me… One was that an event started perfectly on an hour – I think it was the race walking. Something like exactly 5:00 or so our time. And I remember …
Remote Electronics
A friend is working on doing some wiring of a GPS so that it works with a Laptop. Which means that he is needing to do some wiring with soldering up a cable with me doing the design. So we …
Ampache – For the love of music
I have recently rebuilt my main linux box. Moved to SuSE Linux rather than RedHat. The reason was that RedHat killed off RedHat Linux, and moved to Fedora. If they want to upset me I will get rid of them. …
Working on the Plane…
There is the old engineering joke about a plane in the mountains with a whole lot of polish nationals on it. The pilot pounted out a mountain on the left side. All the polish rushed to that side and it …
Getting ready to go…
G’Day All.. I am not sure how many people read this, but I write it anyway. I like to think of this as a slightly censored online diary – something that I write no matter who reads it (Not as …
Imperial Hotel, London
In london in a few weeks I will be staying at the Imperial Hotel. I got this email back in response to a query about what data ports in rooms means. In this case it means that SOME rooms can …
Olympic Statistics
The Australian Statistics Mob yesterday came up with a set of dodgy statistics that showed per capita that Australia would be number two on basis of gold medals after Saudi Arabia or the UAE. This was on the basis of …
Microsoft Support
I love it when I am ahead of a big organisation. I am attempting to get access to Microsoft MapPoint Web Services. This should be easy, but I am in Australia. That makes things harder. Now, I dont care if …
Olympic Rowing and Canoeing
I was just watching the Olympic Rowing, and I saw a spectator. OK, So I was watching it on TV, but that does not matter – I saw a competitor. There must have been about 15 slabs of stands. I …
Olympians and Olympian problems
Just found out – there is an Olympian from Ingleburn where I live – a swimmer named Geoff Pike. I think he got silver yesterday in swimming in a relay. Yesterday I had two issues with blogging. First was that …
Visual Studio Ad-In Contest – Add-in Contest
The awardees of the VisualStuidio Ad-In Cnest have been announced on dev.magen.com. Of all the entries, the best is Increment Version which will increment the version number. Now, the versioning in VS is horrible. It is one more thing that …
Astaro
This is my second attempt to write this BLOG. The first attempt went into the Ether. I did save a copy in the clipboard but I killed it off almost accidently. I have been using ASL for about three years …
Lazy…
People I have been a bit lazy lately with blogging – other things on my mind. Like organizing a trip arround the world and things like that. A lot of things on, and a lot of things to do. So …
How not to install into a clients vehicle.
It has been said that mistakes are a good learning experience. I certainly did learn yesterday doing an install in a *NEW* Holden Statesman. I mean 63Km on the clock. This seems like a nice vehicle. Anyway I needed to …