I was watching Kingswood Country from the 1970’s on TV, and I was was interested to hear a comment about something being so many miles away. Then it occured to me to ask when metric was introduced in the 1970’s …
Google has a very different version of the 1980’s hit “Total eclipse of the heart”. This time it is being sung as a durge with two of the performers doing percussion with kitchen whitegoods. This video really is a classic, …
My mother’s CT scan went well today – not sure if that means they didn’t find anything, or if it means that they didn’t have any issues with the CT scan and injecting the contrast. Wired is reporting that electronic …
I suspect that my travel agent is going to be somewhat embarrased in a moment – she has been having problems getting me into Tucson airport. I know I want to fly out through Phoenix for a number of reasons. …
My mother has her CT scan today – we get the results next week. Fingers crossed it will be OK. Should be. But you never can tell. That is why they do the tests isn’t it – just to make …
I was planning to go outside and go for a run… Yeah, sure. It has just started raining. I do not think I really want to catch a cold at the moment and freeze to death thank you.
After a few phone calls and a meeting this morning I feel like actually doing some work. I am looking forward to doing it after I grab some lunch. It is only 1:30pm and as far as I can tell …
There was an interesting story in the paper yesterday about a proposed fight at James Mehan High School. No, I didnt find it interesting for that reason… The paper article quotes ‘Inspector Julian Griffiths’. This surprised me a bit – …
Finally home… Interesting day out doing consulting work – and fun. Whilst I was out my email was not working properly – I kept getting messages saying it was unable to send email, and generally things were not working properly. …
What a busy morning… I have just grabbed some lunch after a brain storming session – somewhat of a brain dump really for me trying to give examples for why my ideas where the correct ones, and listening to alternate …
I do not believe this. In the USA an alcholic was fired at an ethanol plant. He drank some ethanol from a drain that contained spilt ethanol fuel, and passed out. His workmates took him to hospital who gave him …
Tomorrow I have a day out – I am doing some work over at pymble… I am closely supervising the work of a programmer, slowly bringing him to the point of working out what the product needs to do, and …
I have just got back from taking my mother to the oncologist… For her 6 monthly checkup. Generally the results were good, except that her spleen was slightly enlarged. This is normally because of a virus, but might be related …
The cables are mostly made up… I need to spend a tiny but of time on them once the hardware actually turns up – I am just not confident with which way the connector goes from the diagrams. And given …
Small break needed… I am making up some cable assemblies for some trackers, so I need to cut a heap of cables to length, strip one end, solder the end, trim to length, solder to a terminal, insert into a …