Dozi at Firkin

Last week we were at Firkin again. Dozi was entertaining as ever and it was a blast, literally. From the moment he stepped on the stage he was pointing to his microphone, indicating that the gain needs to go up. See proof below...

Dozi joked that he wont go "affirmative" with his sound man, but I think he should consider it, the guy had no clue. He never decreased the gain on the rest of the band and we were bombarded very loud music.

I complain too much it was still a great experience. Dozi was performing not only in Afrikaans but in Zulu and in English as well. He told us that they had to stop just before 24h00 because they are leaving for the KKNK at 04h00 the next morning. The bus was already packed and standing outside ready for the trek down to Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape Karoo. (I estimate a little more than 1000km from Pretoria)

Work related

Everytime someone asks me what I do for a living, I have to think carefully how to explain it ...until now.
Recently a product that we conceptualized, designed, patented, prototyped, marketed, were introduced by one of the largest motion sensor manufactures. So now it easy "I worked on a digital dual sensor pyrodetector, that is used in alarm systems"

Statements that we are particularly proud of is "NEW - DigiPyro™, World's First Digital Pyrodetector" and "PerkinElmer’s new DigiPyro is truly setting the digital standard in motion detection." and "Tests indicate that the PSRR is improved by roughly 30 dB, a 32-fold improvement over the traditional analog pyrodetector technology."

If you stildon'tnt understand, I work for a company that designs integrated circuits that is used in motion sensor related products.

We do not produce the circuits in our office,...I do not work through a microscope, ...I sit in front of a PC and sometimes I work with a soldering iron and.... sometimes we have bright moments.

Quads at QueSera

Last Sunday Ursula and I went with a friends to their local quad playground. I also got the opportunity to ride and it is great! There are just a lot of things to do simultaneously on the quad, suppose with practice it comes naturally. There was a good opportunity to take nice photos of the guys flying through the air, at not such a great speed.

The photoset is a on our Flikr page.

Laptop

A week ago my laptop fell on its left front corner from my desk to the floor. I was struggling with a program on a PIC and a programmer was connected to a USB port on the left side of the laptop. I wheeled away at great speed not knowing that the USB cable got snared under my chair. See the result below!



The laptop fell on the corner where the HHD is mounted, HHD stopped working immediately and XP crashed with blue screen of death. On the bright side only the HDD and the case broke, the rest of the laptop is still functional. Was an expensive program!