Ouch

Finally got the car in (Yesterday) as another early morning posting. Just heard one car go by, still nice and quiet though. A new catalitic converter - 225 quid, only to find that there is a small hole in the exhaust quoted at 190 quid. So down to Halfords to get some exhaust tape to seal it until its MOT, if really bad, then I will have to give it up and get something new - I cannot keep spending more and more money - I simply do not have it.

Still, I was able to read a Dreamweaver book I have bought whilst waiting - really good, so have ordered the Flash CS3 version too. Along with a book on Alan Turing, I have always wanted to know this initial foundation ever since understanding the Fetch, Decode, Execute, Store process of a CPU - from "The MOTOROLA MC68000. An Introduction to Processor Memory and Interfacing. Jean Bacon". The MC68000 has a really good instruction set that is easy to understand and an architecture that is simpler to address than the Intel 8086+ type series. In Uni, I once wrote a Fruit Machine program, but got called up for cheating when a friend at the time used the same 'mulu' operand (multiply unassigned) to solve a problem in the program - I had done the work and she had copied me. I am now writing this blog on an Intel Dual Core E4600 CPU - how things have moved on in fifteen years. The younger generation cannot seem to understand a World without Mobile Phones, CD's and the Internet. Still, it is the same for all generations as technology progresses, so do new sets of humans appear to embrace it.