So this morning we gave our ENP presentation. Rob & I stayed up until the wee hours this morning pouring over the legalese covering aviation in Australia – specifically the CAR (Civil Aviation Regulations) 1988, CASR (Civil Aviation Safety Regulations) 1998 and CAA (Civil Aviation Act) 1988. And all the amendments. And CASA (Civil Aviation… Read more
So, another day, another few hours of my life forever wasted. Today’s ADD bug was particular sinister – the seven-segment display was displaying all the digits over each other, as I noted previously. The trick with this quad-digit display is that it only has one set of segment inputs; you can direct which if any… Read more
Rob & I spent most of the day in the ADD lab, working on ADD and, in his case, the ENP presentation for tomorrow morning. It took me a little while to get the code to compile; HDL Designer had gone and randomly renamed dozens of signals, as it tends to do, which I then… Read more
It was so cold this morning that it took me nearly an hour just to work up the courage to leap out of bed to turn the heater on… which is 2 metres away. It then took nearly a whole ‘nother hour to warm the room up to a reasonable temperature. My window had ice… Read more
So far this year I’ve spent at least $530 on petrol; that’s just what I’ve put on my credit card. They’re expensive little buggers, these car things.
I just woke up. Before that horrible happenstance, I was dreaming about being at uni, in the labs, with Tony, Egan and Lindsay Lohan. Don’t look at me, I don’t write these things. :) Tony was working, and I was sitting next to him annoying him, as per usual, while I installed Need for Speed… Read more
Last night turned out to be an eventful night for me. I had absolutely no plans, until about 6:30 when Chris rang me to see what I was up to. We organised to go out to dinner. While I was getting ready for that, Shane popped up online and invited me over to his place… Read more