Yay, track fault 40km away and train is running about 10 minutes late.
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Yay, track fault 40km away and train is running about 10 minutes late. Ten minutes late and not admitting it on website! We should have been at Helensvale 5 minutes ago and now we are just sitting at Coomera. Where are the dual tracks? Late train is late. This is the first time in a while the train has been more than a few minutes late. No SMS update, and going to be over 40 minutes late home. Apparently some overhead powerlines are down in Brisbane, over 60km away! My comment to this post. Posting here because The Australian is fairly anti-NBN and has rejected pro-NBN comments in the past.
Train was about 5 minutes late this morning. Normally if it is five minutes or less I don’t worry about blogging about it but since the announcement said “Queensland Rail apologises for the late running of this train” it must be really late! Since I only catch the train about two days a week and many of those journeys are delayed, I’ve decided to report here every time a train is more than a few minutes late or another problem with them. Name and Shame, Queensland Rail. There is currently a traffic incident at Runcorn station which has caused “30 minute delays” but the next train is still “26 minutes away” according to the stationmaster. It is currently 7:44 and it should be here at 7:28. I don’t know if the 6:58 train made it through before the incident happened. That means my train will be arriving at my station 10 minutes after it is supposed to be arriving at my destination! Update 7:53: the express train just went through. Why couldn’t it stop and why does it get to overtake the all stations train and make me even later for work? The has been three trains going the other way since I got on the station at 7:28. Also, there is a bitch smoking right next to children. Talk about retardation. Update 7:57: Another train going my way didn’t stop. Update 8:05: On the all-stations train now. We’ll have to see what the express train is going when we get there. Update: 8:24: On the express train to my final destination. Going to be 40 minutes late. Bitches. Why did that retarded person drive into a boomgate at Fruitgrove? Update: 8:45: Just got into the station, 45 minutes late (extra 5 minutes due to the piece of single track, so had to wait for the other train) There will probably be no further updates. I just installed an app to update my blog from the ipad. The boss supplied me and a workmate with 64GB 3G models for research and testing. I’m still playing with it and installing apps. I’ve written a few small apps for iPhone (SDK 3.1) but would like to do more with Objective C. The best app I’ve come across is the one by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission). I used to watch i-view a bit to catch up on the shows I miss during the week. There aren’t a lot of Australia-only apps. Browsing the Internet and came across this post on the YouTube blog. I thought this part was funny: “Without content protection, we would not be able to offer videos like this.” (with link to a page that says “This rental is currently unavailable in your country”) I’m so glad for content protection and the videos it can’t offer! This is sample code that I had posted on the PHP documentation comment that seem to have been deleted. Someone called “matt at mattostock dot com” posted code where this came from originally, but it didn’t work. This is designed to be called after the imagepng($im, $write_file) call. <?php
$bgColor = array (255,255,255); // white
$pngData = bin2hex(file_get_contents($write_file));
$pngDataOut = substr($pngData, 0, 16);
// TODO: verify this is the correct PNG header
$pngData = substr($pngData, 16);
$fs = 100; // prevent infinite loop
while (--$fs>0 && $pngData!='')
{
$chunkName = substr($pngData, 8, 8);
$chunkSize = substr($pngData, 0, 8);
$chunkSizeNumber = base_convert($chunkSize, 16, 10) * 2;
if ($chunkName=='49444154')
{
// here we have found the first IDAT so we insert our bKGD
$bkgdChunk = '624b4744';
foreach ($bgColor as $bit)
{
$bkgdChunk .= sprintf('%04x',$bit);
}
$bkgdChunk .= sprintf('%08x', crc32(pack('H*', $bkgdChunk))) . '';
$pngDataOut .= '00000006' . $bkgdChunk;
break;
}
// TODO: omit any other bKGD chunks
$pngDataOut .= substr($pngData, 0, 8+16+$chunkSizeNumber);
$pngData = substr($pngData, 8+16+$chunkSizeNumber);
}
$pngDataOut .= substr($pngData, 0);
file_put_contents($write_file, pack('H*', $pngDataOut));
I just took receipt of a Samsung NC10 – $0 upfront on a two year contract with Optus – monthly 2GB of 3G data for use with the built in HSPA modem. I’m actually typing on it on the train right now. It meets most of my requirements, though I am still using Windows XP on it. I’ll be looking at installing dual boot on the weekend (though other factors may stop me doing that). Heh, just then it wanted to reboot to install an upgrade. Yay for Windows. My biggest thing is battery life. I did get almost 6 hours the first charge (keeping use low) and I’m 4 hours into my second charge with an hours remaining (watching video, and keeping the screen fairly bright). The 3G is a good thing too. It’s like having a big iPhone but more useful (ability to run arbitrary software including Flash is useful). I’ll be aadding to this blog more often now, too! |
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