Thursday, September 09, 2004

Testing ....1...2...3
Yeah....we are back online after a week without Internet at home after a very big move.

So Suze, Jaz, Osky and I are all in our humble abode which is very very nice. The most bestest thing is that in putting the bed back together it has somehow got more comfortable....weird but true. So sleep here is much nicer.

We are directly opposite a park with a playground and football oval, we even have a secret path right next door to our house. With the garden, the secret path, the playground and everything else...the kids are enjoying themselves immensely. But....Oskar is now waking at 5-5:30 again so Suze and I have not had a night in bed after 9:30pm for 2 weeks which is just mind blowing!! Added to which I haven't been to teh gym in 2 weeks so things have to change.

Otherwise, life goes on very nicely. I'm working on some very interesting bluetooth stuff for a large retailer here in Australia as well as a large/massive shopping center complex owner.

Now that we have moved, I'm planning on a few projects, most of which involve some for of PIC micro controller hardware soldering type of thing with a RF interface to a computer or the use of a wireless network. I'm very interested in ye olde distributed agent / adaptive device type thingo. So the summer will no doubt see me hunched over a soldering iron or coding some micro code.

Thoughts are starting to converge on "The Next Thing".. which I would like to involve...self organising systems, agents, micro controller based physical computing, adpative systems, real world observational computing, immersive environments, consumers, bluetooth, mobile phones and server side technology. Huh... basically making smart devices which are used by lots and lots of people and immerse themselves in the everyday environment and communicate among themselves.