Random thoughts of a techy lost in the world

Another idea while I remember (probably mentioned this in other posts in various places).
Cell phones.
Digital Cameras.

Take one Camera, give it about 128mb to cache pics, when pics are taken, uses the cell phone part to email (nfs) the pics out, then clear from internal ram to leave space for more pics.

Later revision;
Don't save the jpg, save the raw data from the CCD, can then edit the pic later to get better piccy.

Earlier revision;
Use bluetooth/wireless to dump pics to central server. Would be good for things like sporting events where a few photographers are dumping their data to a central store. Let the photographers concentrate on doing everything they can to get a good shot, then someone offline tweak the pics for better quality from the raw data.

Ok, now the background.
Using asp.net with c#, I had a bit of trouble getting a popupbox to display, allow input/deletion, and reflect this on the form that called the popup.
Looked around abit, found some really wierd solutions that to be honest, befuddled me somewhat and seemed overkill on what should of been a simple problem. The problem of firing an event on a different frame from a popupwindow.
So, my way of doing it;
create a HTML button, call it;
btnShowDetails
Set it to be a 'Run as Server Control', then jam in the code you want to run.
What this does, lets the button easily be called from the popup window using;

Response.Write("<script language='javascript'> {window.opener.__doPostBack('btnShowDetails', '') }</script>");

All this does is allow the button to receive the postback from the popup.
Not seen this anywhere, but seems a fair bit simpler than some other solutions I've found out there. To improve this, can have the callback javascript preregistered on the popupwindow to make it a tad easier to call (and to get round some popup blockers that might stop this calling across frames). This as is works for me, hope this is of use to someone else out there as it took a fair bit to sus this out.

Too much browsing/coding/coffee.
Was flicking through a magazine when I came upon a page full of text. My mind was half-way throught CTRL-F to search for, something, not sure what. If it had worked, I'd of ended up with what I was looking for. It's the fact that I was doing it without thinking fully that freaks me out the most, as I think it was very nearly working until my concious mind told me it was just a piece of paper.
So, should I;
A) Upgrade my visual cortex to make this work faster
B) Downgrade something that tells me this isn't possible.

So, heatsinks.
All these fins to extract the heat, then the fan/motor to move the air over the fins to cool them down so that they can suck up more heat.
Why isn't the Fan the fins? Rather than move the air over the fins, what about moving the fins through the air? Only thing I don't know about would be the bearing needed on this, can the lubricant used inside the bearing carry the heat across? So move the Motor ABOVE the fanFins, and just keep the bearing on contact to the thermal transfer point.
Just ideas as I think of them.

DC is done and dusted.
Moved down to Key Biscayne outside of Miami November(ish), and it suits me fine. Mighty fine.
Weather fantastic, not really appreciated such awsomely warm/sunny weather before.
Christmas, going home, kinda drew attention to the whole environment issue. Had asthma for 2 weeks back home. It rained, was cold, blurgh. Soon as I made it back to Key Biscayne, all clear.
Appears I'm allergic to Grimsby,

Well, few months on, still not got alot in the place (but that's the way I prefer it).
Was in Miami last week working on some reports and wotnot and it's looking very likely I'm off to live in Key Biscayne.
Can't wait.
I do NOT want to endure another winter in D.C. Having hair turn into icicle dreadlocks was not my idea of fun.

Well, mission was a success. Got a Gmail account (though still not using it as much as I should be doing.

Still want to keep using this blogger though, I REALLY need to keep track of things that are occurring.

Back in the UK for the time being, plan was to pop back 1 week, get 3d xray stuff sorted, pop to US embassy, fly back to US...
So...
Earliest I can get there is June 30th, meaning I'm stuck in UK for next 2.5 weeks. At least I'll get chance to see family and friends a bit more.

Guess who should be actually using this thing to get the gmail.

Doh! Suppose this is a good lesson that I should be keeping up with all this...
Oh well.
next time
I WILL keep up with my blog.
Every day
honest
well, at least a few times a week...