When Matt and Steve work late together...

 
 
 

... wickedness is guaranteed.

I think I'll be ready for sleep in about 4 months.

I think these look pretty cool, and would go nicely in the Zed.

We're talking about putting a screen in the centre console component; in Japan and the US a sat-nav system was offered which usually takes the space but it wasn't available in Australia at the time. Doh.

What makes the PSP really interesting is that it has a USB input and people have unsigned code executing on it. That means in theory you could receive input through the USB port, say engine management details, and display them on a custom application running on the PSP.

Ben from element software has a nifty engine management system in his WRX STi that draws pretty graphs showing the current acceleration, turbine pressure (boost) and the like, and I think it cost him around two thousand dollars.

Worst case scenario; it would make a great media player, with video output and MP3 capabilities (and my new 2GB memory card, which should be here today).

It's been a little while coming, but I'm proud to announce that The Frontier Group's new website is live and operational. The site is running off Hotrod, one of the new servers that we're migrating everything onto.

I've finished entering the content, and no doubt Adam will find a few spelling mistakes, but I figured 3:00AM was a good time to make the sucker live.

The next project is to make sites for AuroraCMS and DestinySMS. At the moment there's a bit of info on the main TFG site, but I tihnk we're going to have sub-sites that show screenshots and the like for each product. Though... we could just point the domains to the product page on our main site... that would probably work better, and mean we didn't have information in more than one place.

The only bug I've found is with the large menu item "Technologies We Use", the left side isn't rounded in my browser. It might be a Linux fonts thing though.

Let us know what you think.

About a week ago I finished one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is about, as the long-winded title might suggest, the MIT blackjack teams that raided the Vegas casinos in the late 90s.

It's an interesting tale about a group of engineering and computing geeks that use their brains to secure a stack of cash in a short amount of time. They count cards, but rather than keeping a track of every card that has been dealt they instead monitor a running total; the deck is either positive ("hot") or negative ("cold") and team play means that large bets can be laid down without raising too much awareness.

The auther has a new book out too and though the reviews are quite bad I think I'll check it out.

I'm going to get a few decks and learn to count cards on the plane trip later this month :)

We have a client that's purchased Aurora from us. We've had it setup and running on our servers, and everything is great. They wanted to move it to Westnet, which is fine, but makes it more work for us (and as a result, less economical for them).

First up Westnet's team gave me the wrong URL for their PHPMyAdmin interface.

Then they give me the right address, but the server's down.

I mean, it's not Westnet that I'm annoyed at - why does the client have to be making decisions which make life hard for everyone.

To top it off, their launch timeframe puts more pressure on me as a result of the mixups at Westnet.