Interest in our autonomous UAV

There’s been a surprising amount of interest from various 3rd parties in the autonomous UAV project Rob & I are undertaking this year. Today we learnt of yet another party that’s paying attention to us. Which is quite scary, really – Rob & I feel a bit that everyone’s taking it a lot more seriously… Read more

EMT Presentation

So we did our presentation, as planned, and it actually turned out reasonably well. We did another two runs through it before hand – at eight in the morning – and then had to sit through an hour and a half of other presentations… the third of which was actually of interest, but the first… Read more

EMT rehearsal

So, we’ve just spent the evening working on our EMT presentation, scheduled for tomorrow morning. It’s coming together reasonably well, although I am still a bit nervous about it; I keep running a little overtime, and as usual can’t for the life of me reproduce any particular performance. I’m not good at repetition, evidently. Hopefully… Read more

J.D.’s

Another Monday night, another J.D.’s. I hadn’t planned on going down this week, but Roxanne messaged me Monday morning angling for a lift, so I figured why not. I’m glad she did; it was pretty good. I headed off straight after my EMT meeting, finishing at four, and she & I wandered over to TGI… Read more

The importance of working late

Now while I’m not particularly happy about my normal coding hours – say, 10pm till 4am – in this particular case they just did me wonders. I have some code, you see, which converts between NSCalendarDate and CSSM_DATEs – don’t worry if this is going over your head, it’s part of the boring, disgusting internal… Read more

25 Most Played Songs

I figure this might be of interest many years from now, when I try to figure out how many brain cells I lost listening to mindless cacophonous crap. ;) ‘course, I’ve been afraid to write this up for fear of assimilating attributes of any regular MySpace attention-… well, let’s just say “lacking person”… yes, that’s… Read more