I am just changing some tab settings in firefox and thought I would share the information to solve two of my previous annoyances:

1.  I know that the new IE allows multiple home page tabs, firefox 2 does also but it wasn't clear how to do this.  To do it you open the tabs you wish to use as home pages and then go into the tools, options and click the use current tabs!

2.  New tabs open blank! To fix this an extension is needed:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122

Why use firefox??  Firefox is open source and allows other developers to create tonnes of useful add-ons, I highly recommend it.

Now that I have finished everything for my degree, I will have more time on my hands and plan to use this blog more.

So an update about my degree.... I completed my final year project, RADAR, a human seeking robot in horse and rider configuration.  The 'horse' is a BEAM robot and the 'rider' a PIC18 series microcontroller.   The microcontroller communicates with sensors using the Phillips I2C bus.  For more info see the RADAR pages ont he main site www.tombot.net

My thesis earnt me 80% (a first class thesis) which I am very happy about.  Overall I expect to achieve a 2:1 BEng.

I'll write more later